With the UK facing significant digital skills shortages and demand for these highly sought-after skills greater than ever, West Lancashire College is delighted to introduce an innovative new project – Power Up Digital Bootcamp.
In partnership with The Extraordinary Club, the college will deliver this intensive, skills led programme, that has been co-designed with local and regional employers to ensure that skills gaps and job vacancies specific to our region are being met.
Power Up Digital Bootcamp is a government funded initiative to move people into digital roles with the aim of addressing locally identified digital skills gaps, filling hard to fill digitally focused vacancies and improving the productivity of employers through digital upskilling of local people. The initiative will enable local people to access digital roles and gain meaningful employment through connectivity directly into employers.
How can employers get involved?
Employers can get involved in a number of ways but specifically, they are looking to work with THREE employers in West Lancashire to work with the programme for a 3 week period end 2020/early 2021. They will be crafting digital employer challenges which their cohort will work on – this could be a digital marketing challenge or research.
Participate simply through provision of a half day of digital marketing support and providing some mentoring.
If you can support 'Power Up Digital' and would like to understand more or get involved please contact: angela@theextraordinaryclub.com
Who is this programme for?
The programme is aimed at graduates aged 21-34 who are looking to retrain for a new career in Digital Skills, and starts this September 2020.
Programme Overview
The 10-week bootcamp will include programming, digital marketing and content creation, there will be set challenges and projects, mentoring and interviews with employers, plus monthly big brand talks from the likes of Facebook, Lego and Accenture who will travelling to the region to deliver inspirational workshops on the future of tech and digital. Successful completion of the project will connect graduates to guaranteed interviews for real jobs to gain a salaried position or an Apprenticeship.
Key timings
- 28th Sept at 2pm - Power Up Digital Bootcamp Launch Event. Graduates can register via Eventbrite to secure their place.
- 14th Oct - Deadline for entries for participants
- w/c 19th Oct - Dragon’s Den style cohort selection
- 2nd Nov - Programme commences
- End Jan - Programme showcase / graduation
If you are a graduate, of any discipline, aged 21-34 and would like to register for this fantastic opportunity, please email West Lancashire College admissions@westlancs.ac.uk
Dawn Paine, Co-Founder of The Extraordinary Club said
“The Extraordinary Club is delighted to be partnering with West Lancashire College to deliver Power Up - an exciting new digital bootcamp which will upskill some of our brightest talent in all aspects of digital, connecting them to opportunities with some of the region’s, and indeed world’s, biggest brands.