Large TALENT GAPS
Although major tech companies have plans to educate millions of people in the area, there is general agreement about a growing online skills space.
” It is still very hard, challenging to find a really, really great software skills. The difference is always there”, Kanggrawan said.
Even as the market experienced the so-called “tech winter,” a business slump of massive work deficits and hiring freezes in the past two years, this is still the situation.  ,
According to Khuong, nations like Thailand and Singapore will have an even “more serious” difficulty finding labor.
He claimed regional education reforms were required, and tech firms may be encouraged to work in this area.
Everyone must execute the catching up game in this area of training their people, according to” I see the space outside, because the technologies actually advance thus quickly.”
Benja Bencharongkul is the owner of Brainergy, a engineering software company run by a telecommunications company called Benchachinda Group, which operates its own data center and cloud services in Thailand.
He claimed that the country is currently suffering from a significant shortage of skilled workers, which is further exacerbated by the arrival of tech companies with high salaries and career opportunities. Local people are left to thrive inconveniently.
” When Google or Microsoft come in, I just see a huge demand increase with, at least in the short term, the same pool of supply ( of talent )”, he said.
” We are hunting in this same small pool, and what we have seen in the last three years is the 50 % or 20 % increase in the cost of talent with no discernible increase in skill.”
He is concerned that Thailand, which has continued to prioritise economic variety, may not be able to keep up with its mates like Vietnam, which has developed a strong tech industry.
” In the older Eastern perspective, when you ask people what they want to be, a lot might say they want to become a doctor, for instance, correct? Never in Vietnam again. They want to be in tech”, he said.
Tech leaders like Benja are concerned about countries trying to be everything at once as digitalization makes its mark on many aspects of society and organization.
” We just have 70 million people and we’re producing less and less people for the workforce”, he said, referring to Thailand’s declining population. ” But, to please every business is going to be a lot more threatening.
Institutions may have to make difficult choices both now and in the future. Trying to compete with global superpowers for AI growth may turn out to be a futile endeavor, according to Kanggrawan.
He claimed that looking for business suit or niche areas to use technology could provide more advantages to citizens.
” And if we can utilize that, perhaps in Southeast Asia, businesses or service providers can become world people, but we must be believable, “he said.
Technology and coaching programs have, nevertheless, created prospects for some people with disabilities.
Jidapa Nitiwirakun, 21, was only a child when she was diagnosed with muscular disease, a condition that has caused her to gain muscle power year on year.
As she got older, she began to consider career options.  ,