The redAcademy programme gives selected young South Africans the ability to fast-track their IT careers. While many tend to think of telecommunications, financial services or retail when it comes to coding, software is crucial across industries, from healthcare to manufacturing to professional services and more.
In today’s digital world, technology is being infused into products and solutions across multiple industries, and software development can act as the catalyst to solving South Africa’s longstanding youth unemployment problem. What is needed, however, is a concerted effort by the private sector to tackle the challenge, as well as a radical rethink of skills development and training to future-proof your business.
RedAcademy gives selected young South Africans the ability to fast-track their IT careers by taking part in a Career Sprint thatand that involves working with senior developers to develop working solutions for real customers using the most relevant coding languages. One of redAcademy’s first corporate partners, a leading regional retailer, sees its partnership as a tangible way of developing a skilled pipeline of young talent while contributing to the upliftment young people and communities.