According to the 2021 Open Source Jobs Report, 92% of the Hiring Managers report difficulty finding sufficient talent with FOSS skills — with nearly 90% reporting difficulty retaining staff like that. Furthermore, 3 of 4 of those Hiring Managers are more likely to hire a candidate holding a certification. This makes sense, because the standard perception of HR is that certified IT professionals make great employees.
Certifications help employers fill open positions and are growing in importance, so most companies have been investing in IT staff who hold certifications. 2015’s CompTIA’s HR Perception of IT Training and Certification Study has revealed a general understanding among Hiring Managers that training alone is no longer enough.
Historically, LPI has the world’s largest customer base of FOSS skilled IT professionals, and we know the knowledge level of each of the 700,000+ candidates who have taken a certification exam with us. According to our core mission, we are supposed to assist our certification holders, candidates, members and other IT professionals to ascend in their IT careers.
Considering all that, it was a natural movement to create a partner program that could bridge the gap between the individuals we certify and companies who are using open source and looking for competence acquisition in that area. Thus, the Hiring Partner Program was born! Its mission is to fix the shortage of FOSS skilled labor in organizations, both by offering expert job candidates and by training and certifying existing staff in their IT departments.
We pitch this program to the following managers:
Expect the following benefits from becoming a Hiring Partner:
To qualify as a Hiring Partner, you need to integrate LPI certifications as follows: