Is this the same as the UK Government's 1 million jobs in Cyber?
The headline is great, but once someone wants to go into cyber and tries to get such a role, even an entry level job, they find out that either that no one want to hire entry level staff because they don't want to have to do training, or companies want "entry level" people with significant experience but want to pay "entry level salaries", or HR set silly requirements that put many candidates off or screen people out in the first cut, or the pay is barely above the living wage and the applicant's decides there are less stressful jobs out there such as shelf stacking in a supermarket that pays around the same as many entry level roles.
Since the accountants discovered the lower monetary savings of offshoring the number of truly entry level jobs in country has diminished.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not again offshoring, its got it uses, but if any country wants to build up a native "cyber workforce" the first step is getting those native people through basic education (be that school, college or a bootcamp if someone is retraining) and into decent entry level jobs in country, without that how can we expect them to get experience to then go on to the higher level roles in the future.
Sadly while government's seem to be happy to throw money at training part of that, the part about the people then coming off a training course and getting a job they actually want to do, and get a reasonable renumeration for, seems to be the part that is missing.
That said I've no idea how a Government could reasonably legislate to put that in force on private industry, without having to put in place even more subsidies , as I suspect without those subsidies most private industries would just tell the government where to go...