Open Webinars, online technology training service, launches the . A program of free training aimed at teachers and students of Higher Level Training Cycles to expand their knowledge in systems programming and administration, some profiles highly demanded in the labor market. There are more than 10,000 vacant jobs in Spain due to lack of training in IT (information and communication technologies), according to the employers of the technology sector.
To respond to this imbalance between supply and demand, the OpenWebinars e-learning platform offers the becasow.com with which students will have free access to over 900 hours of video training on the latest technologies in programming and systems.
Who can apply for the ScholarshipsOW
The beneficiaries are students and teachers of the Higher Level Training Cycles in Development and Systems distributed throughout Spain and concentrated especially in Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. Specifically You can request them until March 15 any student or professor of Network Information Systems Administration Cycles, Multiplatform Application Development and Web Application Development. Technology companies and consultants have already contacted OpenWebinars to have access to these professionals once they finish their training for their hiring.
“The technologies we teach advance very quickly and this scholarship allows us, as teachers, to refresh ourselves with experienced professionals, and for students, to expand their knowledge freely and at their own pace” manifests Miguel SubtleProfessor of Development of Multiplatform Applications at the IES Villablanca in Madrid and one of the first scholarship holders for this program.
Technology companies and consultants have already contacted OpenWebinars to have access to these professionals once they finish their training for their hiring. The profiles that are most in demand correspond to several of the 15 careers that they offer on their platform among which stand out Web Programmer specialized in different technologies, Cybersecurity Expert, System Administrator, Video Game Developer, Android Programmer, among others.
Complementary training to enrich the professional profile
In addition to technological training, the scholarship recipients will receive pills to complement their profile on trends in technology and the sector; and planning skills, conflict resolution, acquiring, processing and developing information, making decisions and productivity, among others. To facilitate their employment and position them professionally, they will learn how to improve their curriculum vitae how to enhance your professional brand on the internet using the networks and platforms where companies look for talent.
Scholars will have unlimited free access for 6 months (from January to June 2019) to the more than 120 courses in the OpenWebinars catalog. In addition, they will have access to the platform’s outstanding careers that will help them become professionals specialized in specific topics such as PHP developer, JavaScript programmer, cybersecurity expert, WordPress developer, Android programmer or video game developer, among others.
The co-founders of OpenWebinars, Manuel Agudo and Jesus Lucas, with degrees in training cycles, highlight the importance of expanding technological knowledge in order to quickly enter the labor market: “We want to help students have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of technology, since in a few months they will be doing internships in a company, putting their knowledge to the test.”
Backend, Frontend, Systems, Big Data, Robotics and Hardware, Mobile Development, Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, Videogames, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Ethical hacking, Drupal, WordPress, Project Management, Web Servers, Linux, and Database are some of the areas in which they will be able to train and become the best educated generation of students of the Higher Level Training Cycles of Development and Systems to date.
OpenWebinars continues to grow
More than two hundred companies are already part of the OpenWebinars community. Among them, the group Globaliaowner of Air Europa and Halcón Viajes, Telefónica, Ayesa, LaLiga, Credit Bank of Peru, regional governments and technology consultancies such as Oesia and Emergyacompanies that have opted for the platform to complement the training of their employees in the new digital disciplines.
Through OpenWebinars, students can choose from a wide range of tutored courses based on the most demanded technologies on the market, which also include certification exams. This is the largest offer of digital training available in Spanish aimed at individuals, companies and public entities with which More than 100,000 students have been trained.
OpenWebinars has as one of its main objectives to solve the shortage of IT talent in all sectors, an area that has full employment and increasingly increased demand for professionals especially in some regions such as Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, Aragon, the Canary Islands, the Valencian Community, Murcia, Navarra and the Basque Country, according to the latest Adecco report on deficit profiles and talent shortages in Spain.
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