Can’t Find AI Professionals? Train Them.

Recruiting firm Modis, a unit of Adecco, is educating jobseekers in topics such as machine learning and covering the costs if they are hired

A technology recruiting firm is having such a hard time finding artificial-intelligence professionals that it is offering a training program that covers the subject, with tuition costs covered if they agree to work for a client company.

Modis Inc., a subsidiary of Switzerland-based global staffing company Adecco Group AG, this spring began testing a program in the U.S. that offers courses on topics including machine learning, some of which are open to people with little or no background in computer science. Classes are offered...