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Amazon to train community college students in cloud computing
Education Dive ^ | August 14, 2018 | James Paterson

Posted on 09/11/2018 8:23:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Dive Brief:

• Amazon is the latest big tech company to help graduate students with the skills that employers want, training some experts say private firms can most easily and effectively provide, according to the Los Angeles Times.

• Amazon Web Services is partnering with a group of community colleges in the Los Angeles region to offer a 15-credit certification in the broadening field of cloud computing program. Planners expect the program will be expanded to a two-year degree program soon.

• A pilot program was offered last year through a local high school and Santa Monica College, which helped write the curriculum. Amazon also has begun offering a cloud computing program at Northern Virginia Community College.

Dive Insight:

Facebook, Google and other big technology firms are also collaborating with higher education institutions to provide training in specific areas of computing in hopes of finding producing qualified workers.

Facebook has begun working with two-year institutions such as Des Moines Area Community College, Greenville Technical School in South Carolina and Central New Mexico Community College to train workers in in-demand tech skills. The social media company provides the curriculum and some scholarships. The company found that Greenville-area employers said graduates lacked certain skills and even the students said training was lacking--94% said the skills were important but only 16% said they were excellent.

Google, meanwhile, is working with Udacity to offer free tech and career development courses and with Coursera to launch the Google IT Support Professional Certificate Specialization with scholarships for 10,000 students. It is offering the tech support course through 25 community colleges in seven states. As of June, 40,000 students had enrolled in the course.

At the same time, some high tech companies are hiring college graduates who do not have the specific training their jobs require and instead having them complete an intensive apprentice program.

Recommended Reading:

Los Angeles Times Amazon partners with L.A. community colleges for cloud computing: link


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Education
KEYWORDS: cloud; computing; hiring; jobs

1 posted on 09/11/2018 8:23:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is no such thing as the cloud.

It’s just someone else’s computer.


2 posted on 09/11/2018 8:51:58 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

having a hard time hiring non Americans? pity


3 posted on 09/11/2018 9:12:16 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: PlateOfShrimp

AWS is a big deal. Amazon makes more money off of cloud services than they do from any other enterprise. Last numbers I saw were that Amazon’s profit form AWS is over 50% of their profit.


4 posted on 09/11/2018 10:10:53 PM PDT by wouldilie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah cloud is great. Free unlimited storage until they start charging you for it. Apple saves a nice backup of your phone and all your pictures but the 64 gig phone is bigger than the 5 free gigs so it fills up and then it nags you about not having enough space but you can buy more. And Amazon gives you free unlimited music storage but takes it away two years later. And Google sells you 100 gigabytes but then it fills up by saving every single change to every single document that you save and then when you trash your files it handles them one at a time. And don’t forget they can search every word and index every phrase and provide targeted advertising specifically for you.

No thank you. I can buy a 4 terabyte hard drive for 100 bucks. If I don’t trust it I can buy another and make a copy.

5 posted on 09/11/2018 11:04:20 PM PDT by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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To: Pollard

The laughable “talent shortage” again. /facepalm

Funny how the article doesn’t mention Google, Facebook, or Amazon hiring graduates of their training programs.


6 posted on 09/12/2018 12:55:53 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Pollard
From the article: At the same time, some high tech companies are hiring college graduates who do not have the specific training their jobs require and instead having them complete an intensive apprentice program.

Maybe I've missed something, but years ago... new-hire training was the norm.

Another sign on how this industry is broken beyond belief.
7 posted on 09/12/2018 12:59:22 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: bobcat62
Funny how the article doesn’t mention Google, Facebook, or Amazon hiring graduates of their training programs.

Why would they bother with training programs if they didn't need the trainees?

They may be stinking PC libtards, but they are also capitalists, and the wealth of their management depends on the prices of their companies' stocks.

8 posted on 09/12/2018 1:10:50 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would be good for everybody if new employees could develop job skills without college debt.


9 posted on 09/12/2018 3:22:48 AM PDT by grania
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To: webheart

I like keeping my stuff local to me.


10 posted on 09/12/2018 5:40:01 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: cynwoody
Why would they bother with training programs if they didn't need the trainees?

You offer training so your customers might be able to find individuals who can implement your expensive cloud services.

Big Tech is addicted to cheap foreign labor. They're not addicted to hiring their training graduates.
11 posted on 09/12/2018 7:33:00 AM PDT by bobcat62
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