Why do you feel bootcamp alumni are struggling to find new jobs at the moment?
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- I feel like giving up! The lack of experience is killing me. I have been let down by companies as well.
- @Eden Whitcomb Oh wow. We had a pretty strong network of hiring companies we worked with regularly, and did a lot of work around helping students to make connections with employers and line them up with opportunities. But even outside of the work we did on the hiring front, quite a few students would get themselves sorted even before graduating. Sounds like quite a different market over there.As I mentioned we definitely saw a big slow down initially and probably for the first 9 months of the pandemic but things seem to have improved dramatically since the start of the year.
- @Pete New Thanks for your answer Pete, in Germany specifically we are seeing a big big slow down in alumni hirining with some students I know still not being able to find a job a year on from completing their course!The school you was running, what were the connections like to the market? or did the students manage to find these jobs on their own?
- This is an interesting subject. Where are you seeing this? I ran a Coding Bootcamp in Bristol, UK up until very recently. Our latest cohort were all hired within 3 months of graduation.We definitely saw a slow down in hiring when the pandemic first took hold, but since January 2021 we've seen demand return - not to pre-pandemic levels, but certainly interest in hiring developers is ramping up again here.
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