Victory has just landed his first job in software thanks to his time with us. We sat down with his before he left to ask how we helped and if he would recommend Industry Connect to others.
Congratulations Victory! What position did you secure?
Well I just secured a software developer role at expiry code.
What was your background before joining Industry Connect?
Before joining Industry Connect I completed a degree at the University of Auckland, specializing in electronics engineering. Once I was working for a while I decided that Electrical Engineering wasn’t for me and a friend of mine told me about Industry
Connect and very soon later I joined up and I completed the course and never looked back since!
How did Industry Connect help your first job in software development?
Well first the six-weeks I did a complete six-week software development course, and Industry Connect taught me all the basics of software engineering and a little bit more of the advanced stuff on how they really do it in the in the real world.
Soon after I completed the six weeks course, I joined an internship program at Amiy Plus, which has been absolutely fantastic.
During my internship we have been using all the latest technologies – we’ve learned C#, on that we do both the back end and the front end. On the front end we’ve been playing around with some react JavaScript.
And it’s not just the technical skills, we’ve learned how to work together in a team, we’re doing meetings all the time, we’re doing interview training for jobs… I mean this has been just being really good.
What would you suggest to people looking for their first job in software development?
Yeah, I mean look, it’s all about working hard really, you stick to your routine you try and come to work every single day and keep applying and you’ll get there eventually. Just keep practicing that’s all I have to say.
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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