Staff Writer
President
Barack Obama is planning to start an initiative entitled TechHire that will
train students for high-tech careers.
This initiative will involve cooperation with tech-based employers and
local government officials in 20 major cities, including New York and San
Francisco. It will boost training for
non-college jobs, focusing on giving graduates practical skills while preparing
them for technology-based jobs. This approach
aims to eventually put at least 50,000 students into high-paying jobs. TechHire will utilize various high-tech
learning academies designed to train students in as little as three
months.
TechHire
will be helpful to students who have an interest in technology and hope to find
work in the computer and software industry immediately upon graduation. Currently, there are over 500,000 jobs open
in network administration, cybersecurity, and software development. If this new initiative is successful, many of
these jobs will be filled and there will be more students with the skills
necessary to fill them. The Obama
administration has been putting a heavy focus on education recently, proposing
two years of free community college and attempting to make it easier for people
to go to college through financial aid for students.
