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Effective Reskilling of Foreign-Born People at Universities-The Software Development Academy
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9636-1545
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2134-3155
KTH, School of Industrial Engineering and Management (ITM), Industrial Economics and Management (Dept.).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7129-5040
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science, TCS.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8996-0221
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2022 (English)In: IEEE Access, E-ISSN 2169-3536, Vol. 10, p. 24556-24565Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Contribution: An intensive three-month educational program can be used for rapid integration of foreign-born people into the IT industry. A novel method for integrating industrial needs with the practical parts of a bachelor's Computer Science program. Background: The program was motivated by (1) the societal need to increase the meaningful integration of immigrants into the workforce, and (2) the demand for IT specialists in the IT labor market. Intended outcomes: An effective intensive software developer program with a high level of industrial integration and a working matching model for employment. Application design: The program consists of three different phases; recruitment of participants, training and job matching. The training is divided into six modules using five different teaching methods. An evaluation model, based on passive and active data, is implemented with fast learning loops for teachers and participants. Findings: The program has been run seven times with 263 unemployed participants of different nationalities. On average 82.6 percent of the participants found employment in the IT industry within 5 months of the course ending. Female participants are in the majority and are more successful in securing employment. The findings suggest that it was possible to rapidly prototype and deliver an advanced reskilling program within a university setting and use it as a positive method to support newcomers find meaningful work that has a direct benefit for the local IT industry, as well as for the wider society.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 10, p. 24556-24565
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Education, Training, Employment, Recruitment, Companies, Software, Industries, Accelerated learning, career development, computer-aided instruction, computer science education, curricula development, lifelong learning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-310257DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3152194ISI: 000766542100001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85124834709OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-310257DiVA, id: diva2:1647280
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Available from: 2022-03-25 Created: 2022-03-25 Last updated: 2025-06-18Bibliographically approved
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