Innovation Pathway
In today’s digital world, technology is being infused into products and solutions across multiple industries, and software development can act as the catalyst to solving both the shortage of scarce software developer skills as well as South Africa’s long-standing youth unemployment problem.
At redAcademy our innovation pathway, 12 Month Career Sprint, successful candidates enter into a one-year, MICT SETA-accredited programme where the first six months are weighted toward theory, learning career dynamics, learning business structure, and more. The second six month period sees candidates engaging with live development and work on leading enterprise technology solutions for major customers.
Sprinters gain experience in live environments and understand software development in the real world, which enables them to enter the workplace without a skills gap between learned knowledge and experience.
What Sets Us Apart?
redAcademy has been uniquely designed to train the next generation of tech talent on our clients’ live software projects, ensuring their work-readiness and adaptability to enter the ever-changing IT industry. We partner with companies to ensure that candidates build crucial experience on their existing workflows and preferred technology stack, delivering their IT projects ahead of schedule and at the organisations’ expected quality levels, thereby fulfilling the need for critical skills in our tech industry.
Our Sprinter programme helps select young South Africans fast-track their IT careers in a live environment, taught by dedicated software lecturers and guided by senior developers, to create working solutions for real customers, using the most-relevant coding languages.
redAcademy focuses the customisation of our theoretical training to a client’s business and tech stack, thereby offering a unique approach to software development training.
Ultimately, young South Africans get to swap the campus for a meeting room, swap three years of traditional education with one year of experiential learning, swap a qualification with a career, swap theory with practical knowledge, swap seeing with doing, swap waiting with achieving and swap working individually with working in an IT industry network.
