It’s common knowledge in the tech world that there are more open tech positions than skilled workers to fill them. But what’s being done, locally, to prepare people who need jobs to get them? And importantly, what’s actually working to reduce the barrier to entry for folks who have traditionally been shut out of the sector’s riches?

This November, as part of our editorial calendar, we’re devoting extra coverage to workforce development, or how people are being trained for careers of the future, and today. We’ll discuss opportunities and challenges with training and apprenticeship programs — work that could guide technologists with nontraditional backgrounds into their first software engineering jobs — as well as retraining programs to teach tech companies’ existing employees the new skills they need to advance in their careers.

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