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NetAcad Talent Pipleines in the UK
Early-in-Career Students
T-Levels students:
We work with a large number of colleges offering Digital T-Levels.
T-Levels students represent great hiring prospects as they possess key technical skills as well as industry experience (6 week placement)
Best suited to entry level roles such as apprenticeships
University students/graduates
We work with 60+ universities across the UK&I at present
Students represent a range of courses (cyber, computing, informatics, etc) and often additionally possess Cisco (& other vendor) certifications
Best suited to entry level roles such as graduate schemes/internships
Career Changers
Existing programmes
DfE funded skills bootcamps (cyber, IT technician, software engineering).
Several bootcamp providers are Cisco Academies
Mature students comprise a proportion of NetAcad students at the universities we partner with (notably the Open University)
Bespoke programmes
Women do Cyber: Secured funding from the Scottish government to take 70 women through CyberOps Associate (cohort 1 looking for jobs)
Opportunity to run more bespoke programmes if funding secured
Next steps?
Please email Elizabeth Barr, Cisco Networking Academy Lead for the UK & Ireland, at elbarr@cisco.com