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Top icT skiLLs

ThAT WiLL TAkE

youR cAREER To

The nexT LeVeL

With IT job vacancies continuing to climb
as companies struggle to recruit and obtain

critical skills in South Africa, there is an
opportunity for you to upskill or reskill in order

to meet this demand.

p rudence Mabitsela, founder and One way that Mabitsela believes

individuals can take advantage of this
Managing Director of Dynamic
DNA, a leading training and
certified courses, which can range
skills development company skills demand is to take specialised,
empowering Africa’s Information and from one year to a few months in
Communications Technology (ICT) duration for one qualification and,
generation, believes that critical skills depending on the course, and with
are needed to build the economy of the advancement of technology, Prudence Mabitsela, founder and Managing
South Africa and close the digital skills many of these can be done online. Director of Dynamic DNA
and gender divide in the country.
“It is important to ensure that these
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution courses are aligned with the MICT SETA
(4IR) kicks into gear and more qualifications framework and provided their Cv in 2022 as more companies
companies speed up their digitisation by an accredited training provider,” move their environments into the
strategies due to the global she advises. “This ensures that you Cloud. That means learning platforms
pandemic, now is the time to add receive quality education given by like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft
these scarce skills to your résumé qualified lecturers with a certificate Azure and Google Cloud Platform will
to ensure employability and career that is internationally recognised.” be highly beneficial for your career.
advancement in the sector.
Here are the top six most in- Other skills include upskilling on
“There are many opportunities in a demand IT jobs in the country and version control tools such as Git and
variety of industries, not just the IT the skills you need to get ahead: SvN; containers and tools like Docker
sector,” says Mabitsela. “Jobs span across and kubernetes; Des such as vSCode
banking and financial services, retail, soFTWaRe deVeLoPeR and, for Java Programmers, Eclipse,
Fintech, government, legal, logistics and There are key skills required in software NetBeans, and IntelliJ. If you only
many more. It is imperative that both development today that are worth know one database programming
learnerships, and upskilling or reskilling investing in to ensure that your career language, then adding a few more
of existing employees are prioritised so stays on track. Cloud computing is is critical in 2022 because this will
that we can close the digital divide.” one that everyone should add to keep you ahead of the competition.

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