Demand for human capital is greater than for financial capital all over the world, especially in the IT sector, Tornike Tokhadze, Chairman of Georgian IT Technologies Association says. According to him, investors are interested in people who think innovatively, who have ideas and who can grapple with the challenges, Georgia experiences a shortage of just such persons.
In Tornike Tokhadze’s words, amid high competition, business, the state and investors should pay the greatest attention to creating access to qualified human capital.
"If we look at it from the business point of view, the problem here is much more complex than just sufficient quantity. When we talk about qualifications, we proceed from the fact that qualifications are not university degrees, certificates or the number of training courses. Qualifications are the full satisfaction of business demand, which business presents to the market in terms of job descriptions. This is how the European market works from start to finish - this is the European definition of qualification. In recent years, business has created many training centers and academies,
carried out retraining, as well as state programs have been launched, the Skills Agency programs . Given the very high competition and investors' focuse on the Central Asian market, we’ve found ourselves in the shadows - more needs to be done here," Tornike Tokhadze notes.
According to the Chairman of the IT Technologies Association, Georgia has great potential in this direction - to become the number one sector in Georgia and earn about $30-35 billion in income to the country's economy. For this, we have to work in three main directions.
Tornike Tokhadze believes it necessarily to introduce various programs in schools, thanks to which business will supply the market with about 5-6 thousand trained personnel per year.
