Saffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy for NHS Providers, welcomed the idea of retraining existing staff.
We do have to play a long game on skills, creating more apprenticeships, but we also need policies for the short-term, including retraining existing workers with in-demand skills in key sectors".
Firstly, there's a shortfall of data scientists, which goes some way in explaining why companies are retraining existing staff to work with big data) and secondly, not all companies are ready to (nor do they need to) invest in full-time data scientists to analyse and explain their data.
She may recommend retraining existing employees, recruiting new employees, building relationships with particular universities, or acquiring other companies.
Retraining existing workers produces "less value" for employers than hiring guest workers from abroad, a high-tech industry representative said during a 19 March media conference call.
This study can be used for developing and managing engineering procedure documentation and for training new employees or retraining existing employees.
He accepted though that existing schemes to retrain workers and offer them alternative jobs might be difficult to implement in areas such as Saxony.
Many people will welcome the Department for Work and Pension's decision to bring in new providers alongside Atos to perform the work capability assessment (WCA), and to retrain existing Atos staff.
The DWP's announcement this week that it will be bringing in new providers alongside Atos to perform the tests, and to retrain existing Atos staff, has delighted campaigners who have long warned that large numbers of vulnerable people have wrongly had vital payments removed.
In the current economic climate, employers who need workers with new skills simply go out and get them -- from foreign countries if need be -- rather than take the time to retrain existing workers, said Rodney Alexander, director of the Institute for Business Trends Analysis at the college.
