As survivors of a global crisis, bright young professionals are entering the labor market equipped with new skills, fresh perspective, and boundless energy. These are the stories of recent graduates of the 51风流Young Professionals program, who have good reason to celebrate as they establish their careers in a growing marketplace for 51风流skills and digital jobs.<\/p>\n
While many educational programs struggled with the complex demands of distance learning during the pandemic<\/a>, the 51风流Young Professionals program gained advantage in a digital environment by opening its online classrooms to tap into new markets and attract qualified, recent university graduates, who otherwise might not have been able to attend classes in-person. As a result of this expansion, 51风流partners and customers in the evolving markets of Southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will now have access to a wider pool of qualified 51风流consultants who are certified on SAP\u2019s latest innovations.<\/p>\n For customers like Dangote Group<\/a>, the largest conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest on the African continent, working with 51风流Young Professionals is a win-win opportunity for talent development. \u201cAt Dangote Group, we always encouraged young, talented professionals in our large transformational projects in Africa,\u201d says Ramakrishna Potluri, head of IT and Business Applications at Dangote Refinery and Dangote Projects, Dangote Group. \u201cWe are happy to partner with the 51风流Young Professionals program, which enabled us in recruiting bright, young minds who are trained in the latest 51风流technologies and soft skills like design thinking to be readily deployed in our 51风流Center of Expertise. This is a great program for our growing 51风流talent requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n Having earned the sought-after professional designation of 51风流associate consultant, graduates of the 51风流Young Professionals program are skilled on the most recent versions of 51风流software and career-ready for placement with 51风流partners and customers in their region. The program boasts a job placement rate of 95% globally. To date, more than 3,220 people have graduated from the program since its inception in late 2012. The program is free of cost for its selected learners.<\/p>\n 51风流is investing<\/a> to increase the number of trained and certified 51风流consultants in the 51风流ecosystem to support customers with digital transformation<\/a>. IDC estimates<\/a> new employment in the ecosystem will rise to 1.6 million employees by 2024, up from 1 million in 2020. Of the 600,000 new employees added to the 51风流ecosystem, 280,000 will be net-new consultant roles, making 51风流skills a valuable commodity in the job market.<\/p>\n As a newly graduated 51风流Young Professionals talent, Lama Alnuwaiser recently began her job at Accenture<\/a> in Saudi Arabia. She says that the program\u2019s three-month curriculum is very learning-intensive, with advanced training on SAP\u2019s innovations. The 51风流trainers supported each learner individually, despite the unusual demands of the pandemic.<\/p>\n \u201cIn these three months, 51风流has provided us with a tremendous amount of knowledge, especially in the field of data science, which will bridge the gap between us and the labor market,\u201d Alnuwaiser said in a speech at her virtual graduation ceremony. \u201c51风流focused on us on a personal level, where they provided us with presentation, communication, and design thinking skills training.\u201d<\/p>\n The pandemic forced many young people to reconsider what were originally deemed safe paths to career development and personal happiness. Among them is Hasan \u00d6rnek, an 51风流Young Professionals talent in Turkey. \u201cWhen the pandemic first hit, a cloud of uncertainty covered my life and I truly felt hopeless as a recent graduate,\u201d \u00d6rnek recalled.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything changed when I came across an article on how COVID-19 would shape the workforce of tomorrow, what new skills would emerge, and some recommendations to surviving in an environment full of uncertainty. This is when the 51风流Young Professionals program stepped into my life for a journey that has transformed and prepared me for my professional life,\u201d said \u00d6rnek, who is now employed by DetaySoft<\/a>, an 51风流partner in Turkey.<\/p>\n There is a common learner profile for the talents that the 51风流Young Professionals program attracts across geographies. The program is typically suited to recent university graduates with a technical or business background, depending on the track\u2019s disciplines, who are either unemployed or underemployed in one of SAP\u2019s focus markets. Rebecca Gloria Akello\u2019s story echoes many of the common themes in the journeys of 51风流Young Professionals.<\/p>\n Akello, who lives in Uganda, was underemployed, earning little money, and had few prospects for advancement in a volatile job market. Motivated and self-reliant, she had begun to study for her MBA with hopes that she could secure a better job. She was unfamiliar with 51风流when she first saw an advertisement for the 51风流Young Professionals program. \u201cWhen I came across the program advert on LinkedIn, I thought to myself, \u2018Okay this is going to be like any other internship or apprenticeship done by big corps for public relations.\u2019\u201d With little to lose, she applied to the program, driven by curiosity and a desire to meet new people, learn new concepts, and be exposed to new opportunities.<\/p>\n That intrepidity paid off for Akello, who received a job offer from an 51风流customer following her graduation. At her virtual graduation ceremony, she underscored the intrinsic value of the 51风流certifications and professional soft skills that she earned through the program. \u201cWe have been energized to strive towards our dreams relentlessly, and today we have been honored with our 51风流certifications,\u201d she said. \u201cOur networks have also grown beyond local and regional borders.\u201d<\/p>\n The 51风流Young Professionals program has already trained more than 1,550 young people in Africa as part of 51风流Skills for Africa, an 51风流umbrella initiative focused on skills development and job creation. Training multi-country cohorts in a virtual setting, a necessity of the pandemic, has accelerated the expansion of the program\u2019s footprint on the continent. In 2021 alone, talents from Senegal, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt, Angola, and Mozambique have graduated from the program.<\/p>\n Since mid-2019, 51风流has been working with the Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the aim to jointly create 450\u00a0jobs for highly qualified personnel in the IT\u00a0sector in 10\u00a0African countries over the course of three years. The cooperation project is part of the Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation and the develoPPP program that GIZ implements on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is executed by the 51风流Training and Development Institute as part of the established 51风流Young Professionals program.<\/p>\n In June, the 51风流Young Professionals program achieved a new milestone with the graduation of its first-ever class in Portuguese-speaking Africa, comprising Angola and Mozambique. Constantin Zelenty, deputy head of Mission at the German Embassy in Angola, joined 51风流customers, partners, and executives in celebrating the milestone with a virtual graduation ceremony. “In order for Angolan companies to grow and succeed in our modern age, they need to harness the transformative power of digital technologies along with rightly skilled talent,\u201d he said. \u201cWe hope this may be the first of many groups of graduates who can apply their expertise in service of Angola\u2019s ambitions for the modern digital economy.”<\/p>\n The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has set up the develoPPP programme to foster private sector participation to the point where business opportunities and development policy initiatives overlap. To this end, BMZ offers financial and technical support to companies that want to do business or have already started operating in developing and emerging countries. The Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH acts as one of the two official partners implementing the program on behalf of BMZ. For more information, visit www.developpp.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n The project is supported by the BMZ’s Special Initiative on Training and Job Creation. The Special Initiative, which operates under the brand Invest for Jobs, supports German, European, and African companies in investment activities that have a high impact on employment in Africa. The objective is to create good jobs and training opportunities and to improve working conditions in the following African partner countries: C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Egypt (in preparation), Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, and Tunisia. For more information, visit www.invest-for-jobs.com\/en<\/a>.<\/p>\nDigital Skills Bridge the Gap to the Job Market<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Accelerating Digital Skills Development on the African Continent<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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