Due to the coronavirus pandemic, more and more businesses have started working remotely. However, with the rise of remote work, the number of security issues has also increased. Therefore, it’s of utmost importance that businesses understand how working from home can affect their business’ cybersecurity. For that reason, to help you understand what makes remote cybersecurity different and the security issues organizations face, the number one...

One key aspect of having a professional development plan is creating a specific career plan which helps you set and achieve professional goals, regardless of whether you are switching jobs or beginning your career. In other words, a career plan is a strategy that helps you create, select, and set both short- and long-term career goals and create actionable steps towards achieving those goals. That said,...

SFIA, (Skills Framework for the Information Age), is a powerful and innovative solution that helps in identifying and closing skill gaps within the information and communication technology sector. Briefly put, the SFIA framework is a comprehensive and replicable model that assesses and optimises workforce potential. The application of SFIA can help business managers, IT professionals, educators, and the HR sector optimise skills to meet SFIA job descriptions. But how...

Its Importance and Benefits The practice of determining the essential skills for an employee to reach optimal performance according to their job descriptions and adjusting those skills to best meet the goals and the strategy of a business is called competency management. But, understanding what competencies are is key to be able to understand the meaning and importance of competency management. Luckily, the ultimate SFIA skills and...

Without a shadow of a doubt, digital technology has changed the way people work. This was the case even before the pandemic and it is now more prominent and important since many people are working from home. However, many businesses, especially smaller ones, lack digital skills and are therefore lagging behind others. Thus, actions must be taken to close the digital skills gap in the workplace....

Over the past years, the cloud has remarkably influenced and shaped the digital workplace. That being said, did you know that an average person uses 36 cloud applications and services daily, some of which include Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn, Office 365, etc? Plus, because of the many advantages the cloud offers when using it for workplace duties, most businesses have fully, or even to some extent, migrated...

Briefly put, SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age), pronounced Sofia, describes skills and competencies required by professionals in roles involved in the booming data economy. SFIA was formally launched in 2000, although its origins can be traced back to the 1980s and a number of collaborative skills and competency management projects which led to the SFIA Framework. Hence, being the leading SFIA and competency management company in Australia,...

A list of structured steps for reaching career goals is called a professional development plan (PDP). This plan helps you get insight into how to achieve your career objectives and turns out to be really useful when searching for a new job. A professional development plan can be created in various formats including a typed document or a structured table. Hence, you could create your PDP...

Undergoing a cyber security transformation is definitely the best way to protect your organization and build defenses against a great range of cyber threats. But, what is a cyber security transformation exactly? – In short, it is a holistic approach to identifying and overhauling vulnerabilities within the operational security and technological infrastructures of an organization. Now that you know what cyber security transformation is, it’s time...

Retaining Employees - why is it such a challenge?   One problem that affects all organizations worldwide is employee turnover. Every time an employee resigns from a company, they bring with them their expertise and knowledge. You may hire new employees to replace the ones you lost, but this presents a whole lot of challenges, for example providing training for inexperienced new hires. While it makes a...