Bridging Skills & Opportunity Gaps In Tech
Expand opportunity to all in the changing economy. Create lasting impacts by providing people with a path to achieve career success and economic self-sufficiency.
Expand opportunity to all in the changing economy by connecting people with the resources, training, mentorship, education, and career development needed to find jobs in growing and innovative tech careers.
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Connect people with the resources, training, mentorship, education, and career development needed to find jobs in growing and innovative tech careers.
Significant gains can be realized by helping people develop their undiscovered skills, talents, and abilities with the right training and coaching. Set high expectations and help people believe it can be reached.
Bringing awareness to companies of opportunities to off-load some of the more mundane job tasks from more skilled people
Skills development based on the skills employers have identified they are looking for
Capacity for companies to upskill existing employees
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A monthly session for startup and nonprofit organizations looking to leverage technology in the best and most efficient manner possible to ask questions and gain technical advice on topics/problems that are most relevant to them. For software startup access to technical expertise on your chosen or potential technology stack.
Access to skilled individuals that might not have the necessary years of experience but tied to a mentor with years of experience that a startup would normally not be to avoid
We live in a technological economy and the continuous integration of technology into all facets private, professional, and public life is changing the way companies compete, create value, and engage with their business partners and customers. As entrepreneurs, we don’t always have the resources or expertise to leverage advances in technology to deliver true competitive advantage. These advantages can be in; customer experience, scale, cost, engagement, new channels to market etc.
One of the barriers to launching a career in tech is obtaining the necessary experience once you have obtained the skill to do the job. On the other side of the equation are startups / small businesses, nonprofit organizations require the resources or expertise to leverage advances in technology to deliver true competitive advantage but can't afford market price.
There are many programs/initiatives that push the idea of growing an entrepreneur community and small business. There are also programs/initiatives promoting the idea of apprenticeship for tech careers. There are also programs/initiates promoting careers in tech.
Idea of an apprenticeship program managed by Route360 that provides access to skilled individuals that might not have the necessary years of experience but tied to a mentor with years of experience that a startup would normally not be to afford. Opportunity to create a more diversified technology workforce. Create lasting impacts by providing people with a path a path to achieve career success and economic self- sufficiency.
In addition to the skilled people, the small business will be provided with technical expertise to leverage advances in technology to deliver true competitive advantage and to ensure the people working with them is truly helping them take advantage of technology
Grow
Tech For Good Project - Developing Technology Solutions for Social Good.
Work with Historically Black Universities to amplify the tech related Degree giving students the opportunity to build upon what they are learning in the classroom as introduction to emerging technologies. At the sample provide students for an opportunity for Social Good.
Immersive Summer Program aimed at equipping black undergraduate or graduate students with the technical training, network, resources and community they need to launch, sustain and excel in their tech careers.
Opportunities
Dream it.
Today there are over half a million unfilled jobs in information technology across all sectors of the economy. These IT jobs make up ~12% of the approximately 5 million job openings making IT the largest occupational category for open jobs right now. Non-IT industries currently employ two-thirds of these private sector IT workers. IT jobs in fields like cybersecurity, network administration, coding, project management, UI design and data analytics offer pathways to middle-class careers with average salaries more than one and a half times higher than the average private-sector American job. IT and cybersecurity jobs are not only for people with advanced degrees
In fact, hundreds of thousands of these jobs require skills that can be learned not only in universities, but also in community colleges, in industry-certified training programs, in “coding boot camps” or in high-quality online courses.
And they’re not just in Silicon Valley, or in the high tech industry – many are in industries we don’t think of as part of the technology sector – in health care, retail, manufacturing, financial services, energy, transportation, or in local government. Helping more Americans train and connect to these jobs is a key element of the President’s middle-class economics agenda.
Saleforce Administrator
Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer
Amazon AWS Cloud Engineer
Microsoft Office 365 Administrator
Google Cloud Engineer
Google IT Professional Certificate
Digital Skills Development
Build it.
In addition to strong four-year and two-year degree programs, new models have emerged for interested non-tech-experienced students to gain coding skills in months, not years. These new training programs can be run both independently or as part of a local community college or university education offering.
Technological economy and addressing the rapidly evolving business challenges means companies need to be able to move quickly and innovate fast which often translates into the new technologies and platforms.
Tech Talent Shortage: Indeed Survey: 83% Of Hiring Managers Say Tech Talent Shortage Hurts Business
Years of Experience Is not a True Indicator for Capability: Shifting technological landscapes means professionals with years of experience will be require the ability to adapt and the intrinsic motivation to continually learn.
Grow it.
Employer demand for IT skills is everywhere-- and it is growing. Those ready to hire from both nontraditional and traditional training programs are reviewing and upgrading their hiring practices to integrate non-traditional hiring. Employers are also working to share robust data on where they have greatest needs and what skills they are seeking to help make sure that training leads to jobs.
Years of Experience Is not a True Indicator for Capability: Shifting technological landscapes means professionals with years of experience will be require the ability to adapt and the intrinsic motivation to continually learn.
Programs
Tech Training
Offer specialized training strategies, supportive services, and other participant-focused services that assist targeted populations to overcome barriers, including networking and job search, active job development, transportation, mentoring, and financial counseling.
Emphasize inclusion by leveraging the high demand for tech jobs and new training and hiring approaches to improve access to tech jobs for all citizens, including out-of-school and out-of-work young Americans, people with disabilities, people learning English as a second language, and people with criminal records.
Expand access to accelerated learning options that provide a quick path to good jobs, such as “bootcamp”-style programs, online options, and competency-based programs.
to expand its NMTC consortium in order to build a career pipeline into IT for around 338 young adults and other workers with barriers to training and
I’ve attended many training over the years and in developing this course we added elements that are often missing in other training courses. The following are just a few items that we put a-lot of effort incorporating that we know will make a significant difference in the learning experience.
Resource guide with applicable use-cases, real-world scenarios that closely relates to their companies' environment.
A set of action items of things to implement or test in their AWS environment.
Fully operational production environment to showcase how the technology performs.
Opportunity for further engagement to ask questions after the 3-day session when the knowledge gained is most needed.
Simulated problems to challenge your understanding of the subject matter
Tech Career Prep
Tech For Good Project - Developing Technology Solutions for Social Good.
Work with Historically Black Universities to amplify the tech related Degree giving students the opportunity to build upon what they are learning in the classroom as introduction to emerging technologies. At the sample provide students for an opportunity for Social Good.
Immersive Summer Program aimed at equipping black undergraduate or graduate students with the technical training, network, resources and community they need to launch, sustain and excel in their tech careers.
Tech For Black-Owned Businesses
We live in a technological economy and the continuous integration of technology into all facets private, professional, and public life is changing the way companies compete, create value, and engage with their business partners and customers. As entrepreneurs, we don’t always have the resources or expertise to leverage advances in technology to deliver true competitive advantage. These advantages can be in; customer experience, scale, cost, engagement, new channels to market etc.
One of the barriers to launching a career in tech is obtaining the necessary experience once you have obtained the skill to do the job. On the other side of the equation are startups / small businesses, nonprofit organizations require the resources or expertise to leverage advances in technology to deliver true competitive advantage but can't afford market price.
There are many programs/initiatives that push the idea of growing an entrepreneur community and small business. There are also programs/initiatives promoting the idea of apprenticeship for tech careers. There are also programs/initiates promoting careers in tech.
Idea of an apprenticeship program managed by Route360 that provides access to skilled individuals that might not have the necessary years of experience but tied to a mentor with years of experience that a startup would normally not be to afford. Opportunity to create a more diversified technology workforce. Create lasting impacts by providing people with a path a path to achieve career success and economic self- sufficiency.