Industry Connect are proud to have helped hundreds of people start their career in software development right here in New Zealand. Through our specialised and unique job-ready programs, we can help you with the latest industry practices, along with those often overlooked soft skills, such as interview techniques.
Our next intake is at the end of July, and before then we have three information nights in New Zealand’s three biggest cities, Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.
The evenings will be held on:
Christchurch:
Monday 23rd July, BizDojo, 4 Ash Street, 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Wellington:
Tuesday 24th July, 40 Taranaki Street, 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Auckland:
Wednesday 25th July, 34 Shaddock St, Eden Terrance, 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Over the 2 hours you will discover:
- Who we are and why our founders started Industry Connect
- What our programmes are, how they work, what they cover and the steps to joining one of them
- How the internship works with our partners
- How to join our July intake.
To attend simply book your seat here: https://www.industryconnect.org/information-session/ or simply email your name and mobile phone number to: invite@industryconnect.org and one of our team will be in touch with you.
Why you should join our July intake
As technology business owners, we see an increasing issue where there is a shortage of skilled software developers in the market to support business growth, however, at the same time recent graduates with acceptable grades, struggle to find their first entry-level role and get their careers underway. There is a real risk that these technology graduates will be lost from the industry if they do not find their first role and instead pursue other employment options.
As employers and senior IT managers over the last 15 years, we have employed many technology graduates and believe we understand, and can address, the fundamental drivers of this problem. Our goal was to create a course that addresses these issues.
Often employers don’t want to invest in up-skilling a graduate in commercial software development tools and frameworks. They would rather hire someone who already has acquired these skills elsewhere.
Many students that graduate university technology courses demonstrate introverted personality traits. They are often quiet, shy or reserved and don’t effectively ‘sell’ themselves. For some graduates it is their personality or communication skills, for others, it’s cultural or English is a second language.
Many graduates don’t have the industry knowledge and confidence to approach the job hunt and talk with prospective employers effectively and therefore, they are not able to answer interview questions effectively.
Many graduates don’t have the industry connections to help them find their first job.
That’s where we can help.
Come along to one our information evenings and let us show you how we can help you launch your career in software development.
What is Industry Connect?
We have been helping career changers, recent IT graduates and people with career gap to start their IT/software careers.
Over the years, we have helped hundreds kick-start an IT/software career. (Verifiable evidences are available on this website)
OUR CORE
We are an innovative software training school backed by global/local software companies. Our ecosystem is an incubation process that supports our participants until they launch a tech career.
OUR PROGRAMMES
Our Job-Ready training programmes focus on,
- Software Development
- Business Intelligence (or Data Analyst)
- Test Analyst
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
- Six Weeks Training Classes (Practical Tech Skills)
- Three Months (or more) Structured Internship on Large Commercial-Scale Projects (Learning enhanced, flexible Hours)
- Employer Network (job analysis and internal referral if goals are met)
You can join us via Zoom (live face-to-face meeting) remotely from anywhere and "download" the valuable knowledge & experiences from our tech experts across different tech centres.
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