Ready, set, upskill: Fast track growth with digital skills | RMIT Online

Workforce strategies to accelerate recovery

What are the in-demand skills that companies will pay a premium for?
How to mitigate talent shortages in a tight market?
What makes talented people leave good jobs – and what makes them stay put?
How can organisations future-proof their workforce?

Upskilling will play a crucial role in closing the skills gap. Employers spent on average just over $786,000 in the 2020-21 financial year, equivalent to $1,833 per employee.

Are you ready for the next set of workforce challenges?

1 in 5Today, roughly one in five companies (21%) say their employees’ digital skills are outdated.
77%77% of managers say their organisations could do more to upskill staff.
1 in 42.6 Million workers require digital skills to perform their role in Australia. This is equivalent to one in every four (24%) workers in select occupations in Australia.

Over half of employers surveyed (58%) found it challenging to attract new staff, identifying border closures as the most common barrier (27%).