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  New Collar Jobs: The Importance of the “Middle-Skilled” Worker   The economic impact of the coronavirus on businesses created an immediate need to digitally transform or face an unstoppable hemorrhage of profits. The working environment for many employees needed to change to remote working, making technology a major factor for keeping businesses in the black. This sudden shift made it necessary to hire more new collar workers to handle the technological demands of the job and up-skill the current staff, increasing the demand for workers with IT skills.      What are New Collar Jobs? So what, exactly, is a new collar job? This position requires a worker to have technical and soft skills to work in the technology field. Most people with these skills have not gone through the traditional channels of education. They have trained specifically for an IT skill to qualify for a position in that particular field within weeks or months of completing a course or certification program. Nor

  Why Do Businesses Need to Upskill ?   THE GROWING NEED TO UPSKILL AND RESKILL EMPLOYEES There is a growing need for businesses to upskill and reskill their employees in order to emerge stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of the rapid advancements in technology and the digital impact caused by the covid-19 pandemic, businesses have made dramatic changes in their practices to remain competitive in a tenuous economy. From sending workers home indefinitely to requiring staff to work from home, many businesses were able to remain operational, because they had workers with the IT skills to keep up to speed or they up-skilled and re-skilled employees to meet workforce demands. Why has upskilling suddenly become so important? Short answer: digital transformation. The digital economy, enabled by astonishing advances in technology, is reimagining the provider-customer dynamic and transforming how goods and services are bought and sold. Upskilling is the process of preparing

Here are the high paying , high growth , workforce demanded IT careers How VCA helps workers who are unemployed and under employed .  The distressing impact of the covid-19 pandemic has left workers in precarious positions of unemployment and underemployment with very few options to fall back on in their respective fields. Many of these workers have been laid off from industries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus and have been subject to mandatory temporary closings. These industries include h ospitality, restaurants, travel, logistics, beauty/hair/nail salons, oil & gas. VCA has helped many of these workers up-skill and re-skill, so they can continue to work in their fields remotely or train to qualify for other job opportunities in IT. Many businesses may have closed their physical businesses, but some have remained operational by making the digital transitions necessary to continue to function. For workers who were not equipped with the IT skills that were requi

  Vijay Computer Academy partners with International organizations to offer IT training to girls and women globally to mitigate the impact of COVID19 Covid-19 has undoubtedly created an economic shock that has reverberated around the world, causing financial stress and failing health to millions of households. The fallout has been especially detrimental to women who comprise the majority of the jobs in frontline and essential jobs. Because their jobs require them to interact with the public, they’re more vulnerable to coronavirus exposure, unlike women with careers in IT, who minimize the likelihood of contracting the disease by working remotely. At Vijay Computer Academy we partner with international organizations to offer IT training to girls and women. These partnerships give us the opportunity to help mitigate the global impact of COVID-19 with solutions that allow women to learn a technological skill that’s in high demand in the workforce. With this shift in occupation