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Why we need SFIA

Until now, there has been no commonly agreed classification of the jobs that exist in ICT or of the skills required to perform them. This has meant it has not been possible to:

give employers a framework which they can use to measure the skills they have against the skills they need and identify skill gaps
allows ICT practitioners and users to benchmark which skills they need for particular jobs or career paths
gather Labour market intelligence coherently and consistently
quantify the skill requirements of the ICT market
identify skills which are in short supply, or report on how short the supply is
set national education and training targets for the IT community
tell education and training providers what the job market wants

SFIA enables the measurement and benchmarking of an organisation’s collective ICT skills and its processes for managing and developing these.

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