What if you became a cloud developer?
This is the proposal made by Microsoft to young graduates and people excluded from employment.
The company will open in November a training course in cloud professions, intended for French people who wish to work in remote IT infrastructures, a booming sector.
Two promotions of 20 people are being recruited, one in the Paris region at Aulnay-sous-Bois and the other in Occitania, at Castelnau-le-Lez.
Applications from under 30s, RSA beneficiaries, residents of priority areas of city policy and women will be examined as a priority.
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We want to make these professions known, which sometimes seem reserved for an elite, other profiles.
And show that there are digital job opportunities for learners at the baccalaureate level, or those who want to turn their careers around,
”explains Agnès Van de Walle, director of Microsoft's One Commercial Partner division. , responsible for the company's partnerships.
To apply, you don't need to graduate from engineering school, nor to be an IT whiz.
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Access to training does not require technical prerequisites but prerequisites for motivation and employment projection
", specifies the company.
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Not everyone needs to have a doctorate or know how to build an algorithm to work in the cloud,
” reassures Agnès Van de Walle.
A booming sector
While the use of cloud services is not new for companies, the boom in teleworking caused by the Covid-19 crisis has reinforced companies' interest in these solutions.
However, their deployment requires specific skills that are currently lacking.
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Companies that help customers switch to the cloud or manage their existing infrastructures suffer from a lack of suitable profiles
, regrets Agnès Van de Walle,
these professions have enormous demand
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A call for air to which Microsoft wishes to respond by taking the problem at its root: training.
During the next six months, the first students of the Microsoft Cloud School will learn the basics of the profession before spending a year on a work-study basis in one of the partner companies of this initiative: Econocom, Expertime, Ai³, Claranet and CGI are among them.
The training is free for participants.
Its cost, which Microsoft does not wish to reveal, will be borne by the company and its partners, as well as by Pôle Emploi and possibly regional institutions.
For Microsoft, the interest is obvious: it offers cloud services, which it will be better able to sell if companies have the technical means to adopt them.
But the digital giant denies wanting to proselytize.
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Microsoft's cloud school training is agnostic
,” explains Agnès Van de Walle.
It's about opening up as many job opportunities as possible to our learners
. ”
They will therefore also be trained in solutions from Amazon, Google and OVH.
Microsoft has been investing in training in France for several years.
Since 2018, 362 people have been trained in the field of artificial intelligence, as part of a similar project.
The company aims to increase this figure to 1,000 by 2022. According to Microsoft, more than 9 out of 10 students have stayed in their company or founded a start-up after their apprenticeship is finished.
An assessment that she hopes to reproduce with her school dedicated to the cloud.
