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Create Economic Mobility

Invest in developing talent to fill high growth, high demand, software engineering careers in your region.

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Catalyte’s Platform uses AI to find individuals who qualify based on aptitude, not pedigree, creating a more diverse, motivated, and sustainable workforce. Our initiative is focused on the following outcomes:

Abundant Talent

Create a predictable and sustainable technology talent pipeline to support the region's current employers and to attract new employers.

Diversity Advantage

Source talent that mirrors local community demographics.

Optimized outcomes

Leverage our understanding of the participant to enable precision coaching resulting in dramatically improved employee and employer outcomes.

Communal Uplift

Participants, employers, and the community we serve all benefit.

How it works

  • 1

    Source Talent

    Create Opportunity will source local talent from the general population across all backgrounds.

  • 2

    Talent Screening

    Leveraging Catalyte's proven screening model, centered around a web-based screening that takes candidates with the aptitude to become software engineers and gives them the opportunity to enter training.

  • 3

    Train

    A flexible hybrid training program has seven modules that give trainees the robust foundation they need to become accomplished software engineers. Their training journey will be delivered by Midlands Technical College in Columbia, SC, and Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC.

  • 4

    Apprenticeship

    Employers will hire training graduates to complete a two-year salaried apprenticeship that includes standard health and retirement benefits to build upon the skills and practices learned through precision coaching and performance evaluation. Create Opportunity will source the apprenticeship jobs for program participants.

  • 5

    Career and Community

    Upon finishing their apprenticeships, the graduates will join the ranks of highly-skilled software engineers. Ensuring that apprentices become successful software engineers that propel our region and the employers in our region is central to our mission. To do this, we will foster connectivity among alumni, active program participants, coaches, trainers, and employers.

Training Program

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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Training Module

Development Basics and Front End

Max Length: 5 weeks

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Source Control
  • Form Validation project
  2          
Training Module

Intermediate Programming

Max Length: 3 weeks

  • Java / OOP
  • Java Collections
  • Unit Testing
  • Exceptions
  • Dependency Management
  • Intermediate Logic project
    3        
Training Module

Databases

Max Length: 2 weeks

  • PostgreSQL / Relational databases
  • Database design
  • SQL / Querying
  • PostgreSQL project
      4      
Training Module

Web Servers

Max Length: 6 weeks

  • Layered Architecture
  • REST APIs
  • Spring Boot
  • Swagger
  • Authentication / Authorization
  • Rest API project
        5    
Training Module

Front End Frameworks (React)

Max Length: 6 weeks

  • React
  • NPM
  • Asynchronous programming
  • Linting
  • React project
          6  
Training Module

SCRUM/Agile

Max Length: 4 weeks

  • Scrum basics
  • Sprints
  • Demonstrations
  • Retrospectives
  • Full Stack Scrum Project
            7
Training Module

Final Project

Max Length: 2 weeks

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.

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Outcomes

Individuals

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.

Professional Community

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.

City, Region, and State

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.