Northern Virginia Community College and the Northern Virginia Technology Council Release New Workforce Research Report
Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) released a new report, "Northern Virginia IT Workforce Succession Planning Best Practices," examining regional information technology (IT) employers' best practices in talent attraction, management, and retention.
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) released a new report, "Northern Virginia IT Workforce Succession Planning Best Practices," examining regional information technology (IT) employers' best practices in talent attraction, management, and retention.
The "Northern Virginia IT Workforce Succession Planning Best Practices" report offers analysis and insight from in-depth interviews with C-suite executives who have knowledge of their company's human resources practices. The qualitative data collected during these interviews provides the basis for this report, and builds upon the Greater Washington Technology Workforce Needs Assessment reports published by NVTC and NOVA in 2016 and 2018.
Key findings from the report include:
- Employers have a difficult time obtaining and retaining IT talent
- Employers are providing innovative benefits to acquire and retain IT talent
- Employers are offering robust professional development and mentorship opportunities to entice and retain IT talent
- Employers want educational institutions to provide more innovative programs to attract and train workers
"The Northern Virginia tech community desperately needs a larger, more developed workforce to sustain growth while continuing to create innovative products and services," said NVTC President and CEO Bobbie Kilberg. "We encourage IT executives to use the best practices identified in this research to augment their existing IT succession planning for talent attraction, development, and retention."
"Engaging directly with employers is a critical component of the work NOVA leads to understand the labor market needs of our region," said Melanie Stover, Director of Corporate Engagement at NOVA. "As the deepest talent pool in the Commonwealth of Virginia, our partnership with NVTC is fundamental in ensuring the growth of the northern Virginia economy."
With IT jobs comprising more than nine percent of total employment in northern Virginia, the region employs nearly three times the number of IT workers as a share of its workforce than the national average, and the region will need to fill 110,000 additional IT positions over the next 10 years.
For more information about the report, please contact Alex Cooley, Administrator of Labor Market Research, at [email protected]. For all other media inquiries, please contact:
Kara Mauceri, NVTC, [email protected]
Lexie Janney, The Merritt Group, [email protected]
Hoang Nguyen, NOVA, [email protected]
Northern Virginia Community College is the largest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of America's largest community colleges. NOVA enrolls more than 75,000 students at its six campuses in Alexandria, Annandale, Loudoun, Manassas, Springfield and Woodbridge, and through NOVA Online. For more information about NOVA and its programs or services, call 703-323-3000 or visit the College's Web site, http://www.nvcc.edu.
About Northern Virginia Technology Council
The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. As one of the largest technology councils in the nation, NVTC serves about 1,000 companies from all sectors of the technology industry, as well as service providers, universities, foreign embassies, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies. Through its member companies, NVTC represents about 350,000 employees in the region. NVTC is recognized as the nation's leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events; specialized services and benefits; public policy advocacy; branding of its region as a major global technology center; initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas; and the NVTC Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that supports the NVTC Veterans Employment Initiative and other priorities within Virginia's technology community. Visit NVTC at http://www.nvtc.org.
SOURCE Northern Virginia Community College
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