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IT crash course makes of the unemployed a wanted force
LEEUWARDEN. While IT companies are having difficulty finding people, countless workers are forced to stay at home. CodeGorilla wants to bring them together.
Three months. That time is needed to prepare 35 Frisians with a support allowance for a career in IT. Afterwards, they can start working as a junior developer in a region. They will have been trained 'fullstack' meaning that they are familiar with the programming languages HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript .., Actually, everything to be able to work at the front and back of a site ", says Diem Ho former student from The Torbecke Academy in Leeuwarden and cofounder of the Groningen programming school CodeGorilla. CodeGorilla ensures that the unemployed are retrained. That happens during a hootcamp that starts mid-November in the Blokhuispoort. All Frisian municipalities can submitbenefit recipients from their file for the progranunate steam course. According to Diem Do, the course is not only meant for job seekers who have a background in IT, but for a much broader target group. "We are not looking at cv's or background," she says. "We first assume that you can do it. Unless you show otherwise." By the way, there is a standard of pre-selection, so that the students actually spend the three months successfully. That selection begins after an information meeting on to September in the Rhino. "We don't want to give participants false hope," says Do about the process. The preselection consists of a few home maker assignments followed by a hackathon, a gathering of working together on an IT problem in the Blokhuispoort. Both components are of great importance in assessing potential students, says Do. "It is important that people are motivated. Do they make the assignments? Do they make an effort during the hackathon? Can they collaborate?" We want to help people get work but also keep work, "says Do about this focus." The technical side is only half of the story. At least as important is what we call "work etiquette" "Do you get in time at your work. Do you look well cared for? We help our students there . After all, lack of education is not the biggest stumbling block, knows Do. ,, There are often all kinds of problems such as debts. We can't all solve that nicely, but we can help people to turn the buttons to green talk to them and work together with them for a solution. That is a big challenge. "The largest group, which will start mid-November, is widely trained. The group after that will focus on cyber security. "Friesland wants to specialize in that," says Do. For us it is important that we supply people who fit the needs of the region. " CodeGorilla previously set up programming schools in Groningen and Emmen. The company is successful there. 43 people entitled to social assistance could get started after the bootcamp, 70 percent of the total a number of students. "One of them for instance went to work at ING in Leeuwarden" The fact that Code Gorilla has now also started working in Friesland is related to the Social Impact Award that the company won last year. "At the award ceremony, an official from the Heerenveen municipality was also in the room, Do says." He wondered if it would be something for Friesland".