Anthony Mini, Pearl Technology’s President and Chief Information Security Officer, was recently interviewed by WCBU Peoria regarding the IT Workforce Accelerator Program and jobs in the IT sector. IT Workforce Accelerator is funded by a grant and partners with Illinois Central College, Bradley University, and Eureka College to help provide the IT skills needed for jobs in the IT sector. Mini said this program can help meet surging job growth requirements locally and nationally.
Anthony Mini is President and Chief Information Security Officer at Pearl Technology, an IT firm located in Peoria Heights. Mini says job growth in the IT sector is surging, both locally and nationally.
“In the last even two years, with the kind of news of ransomware and everything like that, we’ve heard some job numbers of a million cybersecurity jobs all the way to – just this morning, I heard – 3 million cybersecurity jobs that are opening,” he said. “So that supply and demand has just exploded.”
Mini says there are several different kinds of IT jobs that can appeal to a variety of interests.
“Just in general, IT enables a lot of businesses. So there’s jobs way outside of cybersecurity, whether you want to do sales or project management,” Mini said. “I think a lot of people think about cybersecurity as just hands-on keyboard programming, and they get mystified by all that.
“But there’s a lot more to it. If you have a specific skill set, whether it’s kind of accounting and auditing, there’s roles for that with policy and governance. And there’s a lot more.”
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