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A new view to building your digital skills pipeline: Take a bet on young people, give them experience

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A new view to building your digital skills pipeline: Take a bet on young people, give them experience

20 Feb 2023

In the February 2023 edition of the Digital Council’s CONEXT publication we meet Inge Mnukwa, a 22-year-old from Khayelitsha in Cape Town, who shares her journey from DigiLink candidate to BMW as a data tester.

With digital jobs on the rise, while other sectors of our economy shrink,  companies are encouraged to take a bet on young people. Tech-focused work integrated learning programmes like DigiLink can connect employers with supervised, entry-level digital talent to augment and support their digital delivery teams while bridging the skills gap and bringing young people into the economy.

Read more about Inge below and get more infroamtion on DigiLink at www.digilink.africa.

Read Inge's story here

Source: https://www.digitalcouncil.africa/docs/2023/february/conext_february_2023.pdf. Publcished Febraury 2023. 

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