Certiport is a global leader in entry level training and certification courses geared towards in-demand tech skills that businesses are looking for. Since 1997 Certiport has developed both a wide array of curriculum as well as industry-recognized certifications and now administers millions of exams each year in countries around the world.
Their courses include training in software like the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe, and Apple’s Swift programming language. With Certiport, high school students gain sought-after skills in project management, accounting, IT, business, and more that will help them connect to whatever opportunities they’d like to pursue.
In addition to training, Certiport hosts global competitions that offer a unique, gamified approach to career learning. In these competitions students can win scholarships and prizes, and gain incredible proficiency in Microsoft and Adobe.
Our partnership with Certiport marks another significant step in bringing career-focused training to high school students and their families. As businesses face an ever-increasing labor shortage, the demand for well-skilled early talent will only grow. By connecting students to organizations like Certiport, our goal is to meet that need and open the next generation’s eyes to a host of career possibilities.
And Certiport doesn’t stop there. Students often wonder how they are going to use specific skills in the real-world. Certiport answers those questions by laying out the skills employers need, training students in those skills, and acknowledging their accomplishment through industry-recognized certifications—certifications backed by leaders like Cisco, Meta, Intuit, and Apple.
Craig Bushman, the GM of Certiport, believes that certification programs like the ones he helped develop are a clear win-win for both students and companies; students gain confidence and become more productive, and companies get the talent they need without having to devote resources to training.
Certiport has over a dozen certification courses, all available remotely, and all accessible to high school students. Check out their offerings, as well credentials geared towards even younger students: it’s an incredible resource and might very well be the first step towards a lifelong career.
Pearson Futures and FIRST® have partnered to help high school students find and access the scholarships they can use to secure the academic programs that will help them land promising STEM careers.
SEMI is the major industry association for the microelectronics industry. It represents over 3,000 high-tech businesses focused on creating a broad range of electronic products that we use and depend on every day. Microelectronics are the tiny computers and silicon chips (also known as semiconductors) found in ubiquitous items like phones, watches, cars, laptops, really any piece of electronic equipment you can think of. The semiconductor is essentially the brain of the device.
One of SEMI’s goals is to help electronics manufacturers and businesses develop the next generation of talent. Demand for microelectronics is massive, which means the industry offers numerous career opportunities for young people. The key is to help a new generation of talent learn about these many and varied careers, and to put young jobseekers in touch with the resources they can use to get a meaningful start.
Investments in the domestic production of microelectronics have grown tremendously over the past few years, indicating that many businesses in this sector are in dire need of talent of almost every conceivable type: engineering, production, construction, distribution, business operations, and more. Every major industry sector you can think of—from tech to communications to healthcare to the military to transportation to energy to manufacturing—needs LOTS of microelectronics.
Many of these businesses also realize that today’s junior high, high school, and college students are not aware of either the high demand for new talent or the varied and interesting types of work within the industry. So they are working hard to get in front of young people and raise awareness of these jobs.To get started, check out SEMI’s career site. There you will find:
