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A border community’s game-changing program launches IT careers
MISSION, TEXAS was originally founded by entrepreneurs. In 2017, enlightened government leaders rejuvenated this entrepreneurial spirit by creating a program to build a certified IT workforce. Forty unemployed and underemployed individuals participated in fully-funded, rigorous IT training. Graduates have found high-quality IT employment, and Mission, TX is filling the IT skills gap for large and small local businesses. Mission, TX is a population of modest economic background, so providing fully-funded IT training, with no direct cost to the student, was critical to the program’s success. In early 2017, the Mission Economic Development Corporation (EDC) formed a strategic partnership with CompTIA, the world’s largest nonprofit IT association. These organizations collaborated to develop a unique IT talent pool of minorities, ready to fill job roles, so desperately needed, to close the IT skills gap. Now Mission, TX is able to strategically attract, grow and retain financially vibrant businesses in the local community.
“This bootcamp is focused on filling a need in professional certification of IT workers in cybersecurity. The demand for certified workers encompasses all industries in IT departments and companies that provide IT services to businesses both large and small,” said Alex Meade, Mission EDC CEO.
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