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Free Digital Skills Summer Camp – Girls aged 15-19

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Belfast I.T Girls – Digital Skills Summer Camp

What will you do?

  • Develop your creative, social and business skills
  • Learn how to develop Games
  • Develop websites using HTML5 & CSS3
  • Create digital content
  • Meet, chat and learn from females in the IT & Digital industries
  • …and more!
This 1 week programme is FREE and open to girls aged 15-19

If you are interested you’ll need to book a ticket below to attend. Should there be no tickets available please add yourself to the waiting list and you will be contacted if a place frees up.

Mon 6th August - Friday 10th August 2018
Belfast Metropolitan College
Titanic Quarter Campus
9.30am - 4.30pm

Tech Education Network – Launch

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The Tech Education Network (TEN) exists to connect the tech community with our wider society, equipping children and adults with information, practical resources and training through its networks, knowledge sharing and programme delivery.

We are a team of techies who work within the tech community and are directly linked with industry. We want to share our knowledge with you, on how we can help raise awareness of technical skills & support within various groups and age ranges in our community. We are inviting you to come along and join us to find out what T.E.N can do for You, Your Business, School, Youth Club or Outreach Group.

Why attend?

What we offer as a group is:
• Access to resources and people who can help you make tech relevant to your audience.
• Bespoke tailored programs specific to group needs.
• Direct access for educators to the tech industry professionals 
• Tackling diversity and making career choices more relevant to student’s actual interests
• Alleviate unemployment, bridge skills shortage to help the industry meet its resource targets.

One of the things we’re excited to tell you about is a new outreach program. A small team have been working hard in the background to create a pilot program to be rolled out to a focused group by the end of July. The pilot is a 6-week course in Digital Marketing and Design, aimed at NEETS.

We want to create more teams of passionate, committed people who want to reach out and help people learn about a wide range of technologies.

We look forward to seeing you on the 28th June and please feel free to share this event with your own colleagues, schools, clubs, groups and peers!

Please RSVP via the Eventbrite link as this will help us as a non-profit to judge refreshments.

 

 

What Employers Can Do to Appeal to the New Generation of Developers

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Developers are at the Forefront of the Revolution in Education. What can you do to improve your chances of Hiring Top Software Developers for your business.

The demand for Hiring Software Developers in the UK and Ireland is proving challenging for some businesses. There is a shortage of skills in the UK and Ireland, Yet the rate of unemployment among new Computer Science graduates is high 6 months after graduation.

Has formal education become obsolete when actually Hiring Software Developers? What do developers think about the role of formal education in their career? And what can employers do to attract this new generation of coders?

 

Preview Of Key Findings:
  • 11.7% of Computer Science graduates are unemployed 6 months after their graduation
  • 42% of developers on average have a bachelors degree
  • Developers are diversifying the way they learn by attending evening courses, bootcamps and other flexible training systems
  • JavaScript, C#, and SQL are the most desired languages to work with sought by developers
  • Python, JavaScript and Java are the most visited technologies on Stack Overflow since the start of 2017

What do Developers Think of Education?

37% of current professional developers in the UK and Ireland said that their formal education was ‘not very important’ or ‘not at all important’ to their career success. Moreover, developers do not evaluate their colleagues on the level of their education but on a well-rounded skill set.

 

In demand Developer Types

Full Stack Web 60%
Back-End Web 14%
Front-End Web 10%
Mobile Developers 4%
Machine Learning specialists 4%
Android Developers 3%
iOS Developers 2%

 

Hiring Software Developers & the Most In-Demand Skills by Employers
What are the tech skills employers look for the most?
Between April and June 2017, we’ve seen a big increase in the percentage of jobs tagged with JavaScript, Java and Python. The number of C# jobs increases slightly and Amazon-web-services is knocked off the leaderboard by ReactJS.

 

Languages and Technologies
The most visited language tags in the UK and Ireland are Python, Javascript, Java and C#. Unsurprisingly, they are also the most commonly used technologies in the UK and Ireland.

 

Education Types
Regardless of their level of education, developers attend evening courses, bootcamps and other flexible training systems. They also learn a lot by themselves with the resources they find online (hello Stack Overflow and Github!). Among UK and Ireland developers, 76% code as a hobby and 26% contribute to open source projects. Developers who do both? They make up about 22% of total respondents.

 

Educational Backgrounds
Recent graduate developers are likely to have different educational backgrounds than the veterans on the team. They are less likely to have a Computer Science related specialisation and tend to have a different combination of undergrad specialisations. This may cause friction and require special management attention in the form of coaching, mentoring, and/or continuing education & professional development. We do not yet see a significant difference of education between experienced and new developers. However, the rapid growth of bootcamps, MOOCs and other flexible learning alternatives could very well change the game in the years to come

 

What Employers Can Do to Appeal to the New Generation of Developers

Formal Education Should Not Be a Prerequisite when it comes to Hiring Software Developers. Overall recruiters would have a larger pool of qualified candidates if they did not ask for a Computer Science degree or any kind of formal education, except for some specialised positions. Do yourself a favour, remove the education requirement of your job listing!

 

Fulfill the Need for Development and Education Support
As mentioned in The Developer Ecosystem: Employment Trends and Insights report, developers are drawn to specific benefits. We see that professional development sponsorship ranks high, and it is a key benefit to offer developers if you want to attract and retain the best tech talent.

For more help and advice on attracting top talent into your business please call 0330 2233 047 or email hello@graffitirecruitment.co.uk and one of our experts will get back in touch with you.

If you a developer in need of some career guidance and support please submit your details here and we will offer advice on some of the best companies hiring for your skills!

 

 

 

 

  • Credit StackOverflow

 

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