IT Leaders Rethink Talent Strategies To Cope With AI Skills Crunch
CIO, Monday, June 10th, 2024
Hiring, upskilling, contracting, and retaining: CIOs are quickly devising multivalent talent strategies to make good on AI despite a staggeringly competitive AI talent market.
As head of transformation, artificial intelligence, and delivery at Guardian Life, John Napoli is ramping up his company's AI initiatives. And a big part of that is scaling up AI talent.
But Napoli, like many CIOs, is facing a tough labor landscape for highly sought skills.
By most accounts, enterprise CIOs are rushing to hire for AI-related roles, putting them into fierce competition with one another - and with big tech companies and CTOs everywhere. And given the pool of those with experience in AI is shallow, many CIOs have recognized the need to build AI talent in-house themselves. Now, they're racing to train workers fast enough to keep up with business demand.