One of the leading IT Training providers in the UK, Netcom Training, has recently opened a new office base at Liverpool’s Cotton Exchange.
In partnership with Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, Netcom moves into 1,570 square feet of office space on the Cotton Exchange in a deal with Bruntwood Works. The organisation aims to use the office as a platform to offer a range of online training courses. These include web design, software development, cybersecurity, digital design, and infrastructure protection. This move is a part of the organisation’s project to provide and deliver digital skills programs for the city region to help thousands of people gain new skills and transform their lives.
Bridging the Digital Skill Gap
An industry survey revealed that over half of the UK’s workforce lack workplace digital skills, and 22% of adults are not equipped with the essential digital skills needed for everyday life. It indicates that the UK is in a digital skills crisis. One of the ways to close the digital skills gap is by providing skills training similar to the online courses offered by Netcom in addition to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees.
This is important because a recent recruitment survey shared that while 75% of companies currently require post-secondary degrees for hiring, 59% said they expect to drop this requirement in the future. It means more companies are about to de-emphasise formal education and focus on finding people with inherent skills and qualities to fill specific jobs. In fact, Some of the world’s most iconic tech companies, like Google, IBM, Apple and Tesla, have already changed their hiring practices to put greater emphasis on skills and less on educational credentials.
With Netcom’s expansion, more people can have access to learn and improve their digital workplace skills through online training, which can help them gain an advantage when entering the business and tech industries.
The Future of Netcom
According to Kevin Vashi, Managing Director at Netcom, the new office space in Cotton Exchange is just one of their successful expansion projects. The organisation is continuously looking forward to partnering with a variety of companies across the metropolitan area. It will allow them to broaden their reach and deliver more quality training courses for people wherever they are in the UK.
Besides the Cotton Exchange, another viable office space in Liverpool is the Connect Business Village. One of the advantages of this business centre is that tenants have access to electrical vehicle (EV) points for their vehicles. After discovering that 75% of EV users cannot charge their cars at work, Yakel Property Investment launched a net-zero scheme by installing their own EV charging points in Connect Business Village Liverpool. This project is part of their initiative to offer greener workspaces for existing tenants, and they are planning to expand the program to their other properties in the UK.
As a company that promotes the use of technology, partnering with companies that promote sustainability through tech can help organisations like Netcom partake in efforts that aim to preserve the environment.