To Close Skills Gaps, Companies Are Retraining Their Own Workers

As the labor market tightens, organizations are increasingly retraining existing employees to remain competitive. Take Booz Allen Hamilton, for example. The organization provides analysts and systems support for the National Security Agency, the Pentagon, and other intelligence agencies, but they are having trouble keeping up with the labor demands. The skills gap is simply too wide in this field. In 2017, the company made a push to add 5,000 data scientists to the payroll but knew it couldn&rsq