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5 Ideas To Help Bridge The Genai Skills Gap

CIO, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025

As generative AI becomes a core business capability, tech leaders scramble to close the widening gap between needed skills and workforce readiness.

Generative AI has gone from curiosity to core capability in less than two years. Companies across sectors now face an urgent skills shortage - not just of AI specialists, but of employees who can use generative AI tools in everyday work.

In industries ranging from IT services and software development to staffing, travel, and industrial solutions, technology leaders are experimenting with new ways to prepare their people for an AI-first economy. Taken together, their experiences highlight five big ideas for closing the skills gap.

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