Headai congratulates Technology Industries of Finland for the reward that clearly shows that the efforts in building data-driven understanding of the skill needs in the tech sector are recognized. Headai and Technology Industries of Finland have had a long-term cooperation in the field of anticipating future skill needs. This cooperation can be studied in the articles Headai-enabled Skills Pulse reveals the future skills needs for Technology Industries of Finland and Skills Pulse – Technology Industry skills forecasts based on AI-minde public data.
"The interpretation of skills data with the help of artificial intelligence played a key role in building a more comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the competence needs of technology companies," says Leena Pöntynen, Director, Skills and Competence at Technology Industry.
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What is Skills Pulse?
Skills Pulse is a website maintained by Technology Industries of Finland to provide the latest information on the competence needs of companies in the technology industry You can visit the Finnish Skills Pulse (Osaamispulssi) site. There is also an English slide deck summary that can be downloaded. The front page contains information on the competence needs for the entire industry, and the sub-sector sub-pages provide information on the competence needs of the main clusters in the technology industry. The Competence section describes in more detail what kind of competencies the different sectors contain and how important these competencies are for companies to their future business. Information on competence needs is compiled from surveys conducted by the Technology Industry to its member companies, crowdsourcing and stakeholder discussions, as well as from the analysis of big open data done with Headai algorithms.
The development of Skills Pulse was started in the spring of 2020, when the Technology Industries of Finland set out to build a new study on the expert needs of technology industry companies. They decided to harness Headai technology to help anticipate the needs for skills and competencies. Now the results are here for everyone to see and the solution has gained its first reward.
Technology industries is the largest export sector in Finland
50% of total Finnish exports
6 billion euros annual investments in Finland
70% of total private-sector R&D investments
317 000 employed directly, indirectly over 670 000
Technology Industries of Finland has 1 600 member companiesSource: Technology Industries of FinlandRead our blog about the AI-powered skills mapping that enabled Skills Pulse (Osaamispulssi). It shows that technology industries, Finland's largest export sector, needs 130,000 new experts within 10 years, 13,300 annually.
About Headai
Headai is a Finnish technology company developing a cognitive AI engine powering economic growth. We help organizations succeed in a rapidly changing future by helping them find answers in large amounts of data that they can’t otherwise see. Our algorithms enable seeing the big picture in scattered data by revealing unknown connections and even explaining why they exist. Our technology is 100% Headai IP, based on over 20 years of experience in the cognitive and computational sciences.