With a 2% unemployment rate, the tech industry is rethinking what job applicants need to get hired. Skills-based hiring is on the rise, and 59% of employers are considering eliminating college degree requirements — changes that could reshape the IT workforce.
Automation Workz
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Twenty startup companies from around the world are one step closer to winning the SHRMLabs 2nd Annual Better Workplaces Challenge Cup contest.
As cybersecurity threats grow, so does the opportunity to get a job to fight back against them.
“The more we get into technology the bigger it gets,” says Ida Byrd-Hill, founder of Automation Workz, an institute in Detroit that offers career training in the field.
Reposted from Cybercrime Magazine
In today’s episode, we will be talking with our good friend, Ida Byrd-Hill
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Ida Byrd-Hill founder and CEO…
Automation Workz Institute Inc.: A previous career in finance and economics helped lead Ida Byrd-Hill, the CEO and founder of Detroit-based Automation Workz Institute to her current role running a technology-training organization.
Nationwide — Ida Byrd-Hill, founder and CEO of Detroit-based Automation Workz, has landed $10 million in growth financing to drive the expansion of her company’s cybersecurity certification training across America. She comments, “I believe Blacks, with the right technical expertise, can face off against hackers and win as both are contrarian thinkers.”
“Lack of money should not be a barrier to move into the plethora of high-paying tech jobs that, for too long, have been a barrier to people of color,” said Automation Workz CEO and Founder Ida Byrd-Hill.
Founded in 2017 as Cisco Networking Academy, Automation Workz Institute is an SBA woman-owned career technical trade school that advocates the future — and how we get there — uniquely depends on automation, processes and people (APP).