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Short-term Training Can Lead to Technology Jobs without College Degrees

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Short-term Training Can Lead to Technology Jobs without College Degrees

Some American states are making money available for high school graduates so they can learn skills to help them get technology jobs without a college degree.

One example is the northeastern state of Connecticut. It has invested $70 million to put young people and adults through short-term training programs that can lead to good paying technology jobs.

Some states see such programs as a good solution as college costs keep rising and businesses have trouble finding skilled technology workers.

The programs are known as "nondegree skills training." They have helped people like Mohameth Seck, who left college after two years. Seck said he wanted to work in technology but the classes he was offered in a traditional college program "weren't really interesting" to him. He also said traditional college takes too long to finish.

So Seck decided1 to enter a one-year computer training program run by a nonprofit organization. Today, the 25-year-old teaches computer coding at a skills training center, or academy, in Stamford, Connecticut. Seck said friends who finished the program also have good jobs.

The academy where Seck teaches is operated by a company called Synchrony. The instructors2 teach classes in website design, management and other important subjects to current high school students and recent high school graduates.

Nicole Samaniego is one of the students. She told online publication The Hechinger Report that at first, she wanted to study a form of engineering. But after taking classes at the academy, she had other ideas. "After doing this program for almost five months now, I saw that I wanted to change my career," she said.

When she starts school at the University of Connecticut later this month, she will center her studies on computer science. For students who do not plan to attend college, the academy offers job search assistance.

Niall Dammando is a leader in Connecticut's office of workforce3 strategy. He said academies like the one run by Synchrony can help a state's finances. This is because skilled technology workers are likely to make more money and pay more state taxes. Dammando said this is a real incentive4 for the state to get workers into higher paying jobs.

Bridgette Gray works for a nonprofit called Opportunity@Work. It seeks to get employers to hire people who do not have college degrees. Gray said her own son left college after one school term and took classes with a group called Per Scholas that offers technology training both online and throughout the U.S. She said her son now earns more than $90,000 a year at the age of 27.

Research carried out by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce showed that people who do get a college degree earn about 84 percent more over their lifetimes. But not everyone can get into, pay for or do well in college.

David Soo leads an organization called Jobs for the Future. He said the college model that has been in place for the last 40 years does not work for everyone. And this is especially true for students who are Black, Hispanic or whose families do not make a lot of money. "We need to find a better way to serve those students," Soo said.

Brad Hershbein, with the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, agrees. In the past, he said, employers would take inexperienced workers and then train them for better jobs as they got older. But at some point, that model became costly5 and businesses decided to depend on colleges to provide that kind of training.

But now, many businesses are in great need of trained workers. To fill that need, some companies are creating their own academies or hiring students from places like Synchrony. Large technology companies like IBM and Google have started their own programs because they can train workers faster than universities.

Recently, however, some businesses have been reducing the number of their employees because of worries about an economic slowdown. Among technology companies announcing job cuts are Robinhood, Oracle6, Shopify, SoundCloud, Netflix and Coinbase.

Such job cuts lead to more people seeking employment. As a result, industry experts say when a company considers hiring two people with the same skills, the one with a college degree is more likely to get the job.

Anthony Carnevale is the leader of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce. He said that while job training is good, it is not 100 percent correct to tell people they cannot benefit from a college degree.

One reason companies might hire college graduates is because they think they might have better communication and teamwork skills.

To make up for that, one job training nonprofit called YearUp is seeking to provide that kind of instruction as well. Gerald Chertavian, who leads the organization, said YearUp includes training on how people can succeed in office environments, rather than just teaching how to write code or design websites.

In the end, even the experts who say it is good to get a college degree recognize that there might be reasons not to go to college. "The best outcome is that people have choices," said Georgetown's Carnevale. "And that we ensure that all the choices lead to a good job."

Words in This Story

graduate– n. a person who has finished a period of school such as high school or college

degree –n. a document that shows a person has finished a period of school

strategy –n. a careful plan to complete something or achieve a goal over a period of time

incentive –n. something that makes a person want to take on a task or project

benefit –n. a good result or effect

ensure –v. to make sure something happens


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1 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
2 instructors 5ea75ff41aa7350c0e6ef0bd07031aa4     
指导者,教师( instructor的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The instructors were slacking on the job. 教员们对工作松松垮垮。
  • He was invited to sit on the rostrum as a representative of extramural instructors. 他以校外辅导员身份,被邀请到主席台上。
3 workforce workforce     
n.劳动大军,劳动力
参考例句:
  • A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
  • A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。
4 incentive j4zy9     
n.刺激;动力;鼓励;诱因;动机
参考例句:
  • Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.在许多职业中,钱仍是主要的鼓励因素。
  • He hasn't much incentive to work hard.他没有努力工作的动机。
5 costly 7zXxh     
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
参考例句:
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
6 oracle jJuxy     
n.神谕,神谕处,预言
参考例句:
  • In times of difficulty,she pray for an oracle to guide her.在困难的时候,她祈祷神谕来指引她。
  • It is a kind of oracle that often foretells things most important.它是一种内生性神谕,常常能预言最重要的事情。

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