HvA retrains unemployed in order to software engineer – Computable

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Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) launched a project in which the highly educated unemployed in one year retrained as a software engineer. The project “Make IT Work ‘wants the university to build a bridge between the many graduate graduates or graduates without a job and on the other hand the chronic shortage of highly qualified ICT specialists

At present there in the Amsterdam metropolitan region of high (youth) unemployment, while there are about twelve ICT vacancies. Make IT Work project aims to address this mismatch. The project is part of the Amsterdam Economic Board established by the regionalization plan Advancing talent. Minister of Social Asscher put down and the affiliated employers invest a combined total of fourteen million euros in the employment plan, of which 1.8 million will go to this project

‘Must surely happen’

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The first group of students who will be retrained, starting on Monday, August 31st, 2015 with the first day of training at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. All students have a bachelor’s or master’s degree from a wide variety of courses, such as history, criminology or cell biology. “The various backgrounds are not a problem,” says Ronald Kleijn, HvA project of Make IT Work. “The point is that the ICT professional is motivated in the making, analytical is landscaped and has an understanding for programming. Then the retraining should certainly succeed. “

The participants in Make IT Work follow the first five months of full-time education at the HvA. In the second semester students go half a year four days a week to work at one of the affiliated employers for the project Make IT Work. They receive immediately salary. The students also follow a semester one day a week teaching at the HvA

Participating employers

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Half the costs will be financed by The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. The other half is largely paid by the participating employers. The students themselves contribute financially to their retraining. Employers participating in this project include CGI, Conclusion, Rojo Consultancy, Experis IT, iSense, IBM, Industrial Automation Partners, Amis and HvA itself.

After successful completion of this entire process, receive students a certificate at university level with skills of a software engineer. The student then has the retraining in the knowledge and skills, and a half years working experience as a software engineer. The students are then ready for a career in the ICT sector

Amsterdam Economic Board

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Figures from the Amsterdam Economic Board shows that ICT -sector in the Amsterdam metropolitan region annually accounts for eighteen billion. In total, the region of 19 400 establishments in the ICT cluster, a growth of 28 percent in the past decade. The number of jobs in this cluster is about 96 500, about 10 percent of the workforce. Although the Amsterdam metropolitan region has a relatively high proportion of highly educated, there are in the ICT sector, approximately three thousand vacancies. The number of unfilled ICT vacancies, including those from other sectors in the region, stands at over twelve

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