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Create Opportunity’s public-private partnership with Midlands Technical College, a comprehensive, public, 2-year college, and Catalyte, a workforce data science company, is solving a systemic under-supply of software engineers while addressing pressing workforce participation, under-employment, and unemployment challenges.
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Create Opportunity’s workforce development initiative launches with Midlands Technical College
MoreMidlands Technical College is a comprehensive, public, 2-year college. MTC serves more than 28,000 students annually - 14,000 through its traditional academic program, and 14,000 through its corporate and continuing education activities. Midlands Tech will deliver the training and apprenticeship components of Create Opportunity.
MoreCatalyte believes talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is not. Catalyte is headquartered in Baltimore, MD, and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix-Scottsdale, and Portland, Ore. With a 20-year track record of methodically developing local software engineering talent, Catalyte is uniquely positioned to support this initiative.
MoreCreate Opportunity is an economic and community development entity that focuses on inclusive efforts to develop talent and strengthen employers. Create Opportunity will lead the Create Opportunity Columbia initiative, having primary responsibility for funding, employer engagement, and community development.
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Individuals that successfully complete the apprenticeship emerge as qualified software engineers ready to work in an enterprise development environment.
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Partner with Create Opportunity to engage apprentices trained on a platform that has developed thousands of software engineers deployed in companies including Nike, Kroger, Cambia, T. Rowe Price, and Verizon Media.
Create a predictable and sustainable technology talent pipeline to support the region’s current employers and to attract new employers.
Throughout the training, all technical, and non-technical, activities and performance are tracked ensuring thoughtful benchmarking and coaching guide the successful engagement of each trainee.
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Over two weeks, trainees will develop a full stack application with technical and non-technical requirements that utilizes all technologies in the previous modules. The project is then reviewed and scored.
Individuals that successfully complete the apprenticeship emerge as qualified software engineers ready to work in an enterprise development environment. At this point, the engineer's salary should be equivalent to market rate for a mid-level developer with 2-3 years of experience, and they should be highly upwardly mobile.
Create Opportunity endeavors to maximize community attachment, strengthen long-term professional development opportunities for program graduates, and will foster a healthy and vibrant community of software engineers in the region.
Create Opportunity will increase the supply of high-demand software engineers in our region and support local economic development by fueling the growth of existing employers and the recruitment of new employers to the region with a capable technology workforce.