Almost 50% young people, who were provided with quality training to develop them as IT leaders, got job in the IT industries and organisations and the remaining are in the process of joining, official sources said.
They said 148 youths were provided three-month-long world-class training in the first batch under Fast Track Future Leader (FTFL) programme of the World Bank funded Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), reports BSS.
Of them, 70 youths have already got job from the IT and IT Enabled Service (ITES) Industries within two months after completion of their training in August and the remaining 78 got multiple job offer, they added.
According to sources, the FTFL programme has been designed to provide world-class training to 4,000 youths aimed at boosting the fast growing IT industry.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) S M Ashraful Islam said the IT industry’s response is very good until now to employ the youths, who received training in the first batch under FTFL programme.
“The IT industries and organizations have already provided jobs to nearly 50 percent of the youths, who were trained in the first batch under FTFL programme and some of the trained youngsters are yet to join even after getting multiple job offers,” he said.
Ashraf said the three-month-long training of second batch comprising 124 youths has just started on Wednesday involving the IT experts and noted academics having experience of providing quality training.
Standard curriculum and best quality training are being designed to provide training to develop the 4,000 youths as IT leaders and they (IT leaders) would play an important role in flourishing the country’s IT sector, LICT project director Md. Rezaul Karim said.
LICT Deputy Project Director Tarique M Barkatullah said “The LICT project is trying its best to ensure participation of 30 percent women in the FTFL training programme and we have been able to do so in the selection of trainees in the upcoming two batches through competitive online exam.”