Radhika Panjwani is a former journalist from Toronto and a blogger.
He says his sage advice holds equally true today for cybersecurity workers in the tech sector experiencing layoffs. Mr. Guay, who also founded CanadianCybersecurityJobs.com, a North American recruitment company, foresees the sunny outlook continuing for the foreseeable future as artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing help cybersecurity professionals analyze potential cyberthreats in real time.
The market A report from the non-profit Information and Communications Technology Council shows that currently one in six cybersecurity jobs go unfilled in Canada. Although there about 124,000 cybersecurity professionals in the country, the current estimate reveals that’s still 25,000 workers short. And this number is expected to grow in the coming years.
“The current hiring culture in Canada needs to change to one of developing and growing talent, instead of simply complaining there are not enough skilled workers or worse, waiting on the government or educational institutions to develop more graduates,” he said.