Thirty-two-year-old Michael Boonekamp worked as an IT Technician, repairing and maintaining computer systems. He liked the work that he did: it was technical, and required him to discover, investigate, and solve problems. However, Michael wanted a career where the demand …
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Having spent years studying to work in the Textiles industry, 25-year-old Simone Groenewald had finally started working professionally with fabrics. The work was intensive, and everything she had studied so hard towards, but Simone soon found that the environment was …
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Since 2012, when we first started our work to close the global tech skills gap, we’ve had hundreds of students come to us because they wanted to make drastic career changes. Some wanted to learn web development or software engineering …
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The economy isn’t in the greatest place right now. Growth is poor, unemployment is rising even from its 11-year high of 29.1%, and the manufacturing index is down by 6.4 points – a drop that has only worsened from its …
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Many of us have jobs that we’re comfortable with. Jobs that are good – for right now. If you’re planning for tomorrow, however, you’d probably want your career to grow at a constant rate, and go to work at a …
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It’s a story we’ve heard many times before. Someone is working a job with demanding and unpredictable hours, and they want to develop a new set of skills that will allow to make a drastic and much-desired career change. However, …
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