2. As per the recent NZ employment statistics Unemployment has
risen to the highest level since 13 years. There is an urgent need
to create employment by creating new jobs or replacing
outsourced jobs with NZ skilled unemployed people.
There is a scope in current NZ IT education market to introduce
new courses that are more relevant to NZ IT job market. The
concept of Getskills is to introduce these courses in NZ IT
education system by collaborating with IT colleges all over New
Zealand. These part time courses will be delivered by industry
experts e.g Managers from various corporate, Technical Leads
and Architects to the students to give them a real life industry
exposure.
Objective of GetSkills will be Teach, Train and Place.
Teach: By delivering lectures by Industry experts.
Train: Train them on live industry projects.
Place: Help and guide students to find employment
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4. 10 Industry experts from Telecom NZ, Chorus,
Alcatel Lucent , Aruba Networks US, Business
Mentors, GraffitiTech, Inc US have already joined
this initiative
2 webinars on Software Testing and Interview
skills have been organized for NZ School of
Education.
http://www.nzse.ac.nz/
120 students attended the Software Testing
Webinar with a great response from students for
Testing certifications.
In talks with 7 other colleges for free webinars
from Industry experts
5. Admin , Teacher and Student Logins for
Scheduling and attending classes
Ipad and Android platform supported
User registration.
Facebook Login coming soon
Live Interaction through video conferencing
Screen sharing
6. Admin:
1. Go to getskills.co.nz
2. Login as admin@getskills.co.nz
3. Click "Schedule a Class". Fill in the details and pick a teacher
to schedule the class. The time zone is NZ. Enter the time.
4. Select a teacher to whom you would like to assign the class.
5. Once the class is schedule, it is shown under "My Classroom".
6. Under "Actions" click on the users icon to add a student to the
class.
7. This action would open a student drop down to add the
students to the classroom.
8. You can even launch the class from the admin account as well.
7. Teacher
1. Logout and enter as teacher
2. Find the class scheduled by the admin for
this teacher.
3. Launch the class
8. Student
1. Logout and enter as a student with the
following credentials
2. Find the class scheduled and launch
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13. A great opportunity for Work and Income and Get skills to solve
the unemployment problem because of skilled crisis in NZ
Please refer the link below for a Skilled crisis article recently
published in NZ Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&obj
ectid=10849313
An opportunity for thousands of unemployed people across NZ
to get in touch with Industry experts that can be their future
employers.
An opportunity to learn latest technologies, Industry
Certifications e.g Cisco, Juniper, Software Testing, Business
Analysis from Industry Experts.
An opportunity for hands on training on Test Management tools,
Network devices e.g Routers, switches to make unemployed
people industry ready.
