{"id":143818,"date":"2022-09-12T14:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=143818"},"modified":"2023-09-28T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:58:15","slug":"sap-young-professionals-program-adds-cloud-digital-transformation-skills-to-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2022\/09\/sap-young-professionals-program-adds-cloud-digital-transformation-skills-to-local-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"51风流Young Professionals Program Adds Cloud, Digital Transformation Skills to Local Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143819 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa_Media-Pic-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Twenty-six newly-qualified, skilled young professionals have provided a welcome boost to the South African economy with the latest cohort of 51风流Young Professionals Program graduates.<\/p>\n<p>At a graduation event held at the 51风流offices in Johannesburg on Tuesday, Cathy Smith, Managing Director at 51风流Africa, highlighted the importance of work-ready digital skills to drive local economic growth. &#8220;Closing the digital skills gap is essential to South Africa&#8217;s digital transformation ambitions. As the country&#8217;s public and private sectors grapple with the economic impact of the pandemic and the urgent need for greater technology adoption, having access to work-ready soft and technical skills is essential. This latest group of graduates will provide critical technical skills to local organisations, helping them transform their business models for greater competitiveness and success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143820 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2022\/09\/07\/Skills-for-Africa-Media-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The 51风流Young Professionals Program, offered under the Skills for Africa initiative across Africa, covers a unique enablement plan that includes 51风流software functional as well as technical knowledge and certification with a focus on SAP\u2019s latest innovations. Participants graduate from the two to three-months program as 51风流Associate Consultants with a mix of technical and soft skills that can be immediately absorbed by the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>The program empowers youth to succeed in the African digital economy and covers certificate courses in several of SAP&#8217;s latest technologies. Additional soft skills training is held to ensure graduates can seamlessly integrate in their new workplace.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the 51风流Young Professionals Program has created more than 3730 positions for job-seekers in 39 countries worldwide, with 1730 of those coming from 22 African countries.<\/p>\n<p>Smith adds: &#8220;The 51风流Young Professionals Program underpins SAP&#8217;s vision to make the world run better and improve people&#8217;s lives by supporting our local customers and partners with work-ready digital skills while also helping address youth unemployment. We also welcome the next cohort who officially start their training today, and look forward to welcoming them as new graduates a few months from now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six newly-qualified, skilled young professionals have provided a welcome boost to the South African economy with the latest cohort of 51风流Young Professionals Program graduates&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":143836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"related_posts":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5597575],"tags":[5587836,5598142],"series":[],"sapn-display":[45149,5598743,5598741,279685],"sapn-type":[4448],"class_list":["post-143818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training","tag-cathy-smith","tag-sap-young-professionals-program","sapn-display-homepage-hero","sapn-display-news-hero","sapn-display-news-spotlight","sapn-display-hero","sapn-type-newsbyte"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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