IBM today unveiled the IBM Analytics Talent Assessment: online platform that provides university students with data-driven insights
IBM continues to expand
its operations in Analytics with the goal to become essential in
terms of contents, technologies and resources.
In this dynamic, IBM today
unveiled the IBM Analytics Talent Assessment. Billed as the first-of-its-kind
online platform that provides university students with data-driven insights,
the goal here is to help narrow the Big Data and Analytics skills gap and foster talent for the next-generation
workforce.
According to IBM, using IBM
Analytics Talent Assessment, university students can gauge their readiness for
public and private sector Big Data and analytics careers and gain guidance on ways to further develop and position
themselves for these in-demand
jobs through
a simple online questionnaire.
In the same approach, IBM
announces that:
·
Talent assessments help
organizations identify and hire the right candidate for the right job.
·
They can also enable them to
more accurately predict performance, thereby adding greater efficiencies to an
organization's human capital management strategy.
Connectikpeople recalls that, the new initiative was announced as part of a
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Big Data event held in
Washington.
‘Starting this month, students from eight universities that are piloting
IBM's Assessment can access the platform, engage in an online test, and after
completion receive personalized reports with guidance on how to bolster their
aptitude for data-crunching jobs. These pilot universities are part of the more
than 1,000 IBM Academic Initiative partners that collaborate with IBM to offer
Big Data and analytics curriculum: Fordham University, George Washington
University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts
Boston, Northwestern University, The Ohio State University, Southern Methodist’
About IBM Big Data & Analytics
Each day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated by a variety of sources, from climate information, to posts on social media sites, and from purchase transaction records to healthcare medical images. At IBM we believe that data is emerging as the world's newest resource for competitive advantage, and analytics is the key to make sense of it. IBM is helping clients harness Big Data & Analytics to provide insights needed to make better decisions, create value, and deliver that value to customers and society. IBM has the world's deepest and broadest portfolio of Big Data & Analytics technologies and solutions, spanning services, software, research and hardware. For more information about IBM Big Data & Analytics, visit http://ibm.co/bigdataanalytics.
Each day we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated by a variety of sources, from climate information, to posts on social media sites, and from purchase transaction records to healthcare medical images. At IBM we believe that data is emerging as the world's newest resource for competitive advantage, and analytics is the key to make sense of it. IBM is helping clients harness Big Data & Analytics to provide insights needed to make better decisions, create value, and deliver that value to customers and society. IBM has the world's deepest and broadest portfolio of Big Data & Analytics technologies and solutions, spanning services, software, research and hardware. For more information about IBM Big Data & Analytics, visit http://ibm.co/bigdataanalytics.
