Aware of this, and in the words of Carlos Mauricio Vásquez, General Director of Compensar, for more than a year the entity has been working on three business collaboration purposes with different public and private companies, the first focused on how to take advantage of the training offer in digital issues of its different technological allies and arrange it to contribute to promoting the skills of the populations those it impacts with its management, the second how to link this with the needs identified by its Employment agency and the third regarding the strengthening, in these same aspects, of the faculty of its University Foundation.
Technology at the service of economic and social reactivation
In this context, the entity promoted the creation of a digital learning network with Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and Aria PSW that facilitates the its collaborators and families, suppliers, affiliated companies, beneficiaries of its Employment and Entrepreneurship Agency and students of its University Foundation, access to self-training spaces that respond to the current challenges and needs of the labor and business environment, improve productivity, and in general facilitate the reconstruction of companies and contribute to the reduction of unemployment, equipping those who have lost their jobs with the skills they need to reintegrate into the labor market.
And it is that, according to Vásquez Páez in the framework of the virtual discussion where the initiative was officially launched, “There is more than 25% youth unemployment in the country, a figure that has been difficult to reduce due to the lack of training and development of young people.”
Strengthening of digital skills and competences
Thanks to this network, People will have at their disposal, free of charge and with prior registration, 8 learning routes, some of them basic and others in specific tools that have certification guidelines from the manufacturers, between them: digital transformation “para dummies”, programming, user experience, analytics, internet of things, machine learning, robotics and digital marketing; thus contributing to empower the population with capacities so that, as Rodrigo Cuello, Regional Vice President of Sales Force stated, “the workforce we have in Colombia becomes a force of knowledge.”
In addition to promoting new skills and competencies in human talent, The initiative will help close the digital divide for entrepreneurs, opening the possibility of “acquiring skills in a shorter and faster way” As mentioned by Erwin Grautoff, CEO of Aria PSW, so that in this way people are at the forefront and respond to the needs of the labor market.
Through the platform of the Corporate University of Compensar, Your collaborators, families and suppliers can freely access the training routes, in which the training offer of Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and Aria PSW converge, and also participate in the communities of practice, where they can materialize learning. Subsequently, these training possibilities will be deployed, through another platform, to affiliated companies, beneficiaries of the Employment Agency, and students and teachers of the Compensar University Foundation.
Union of efforts for collective progress
The officialization of this collaboration initiative took place on February 23, within the framework of the virtual discussion ‘Technology at the service of economic and social reactivation’, at what The experts called for joining efforts to find other ways that allow technology not to become a differentiator that accentuates social inequalities, but on the contrary, it strengthens the capacities of people and companies, for the benefit of their integral well-being and collective progress, as stated by Juan Carlos Uribe, Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial Director, when he mentioned that “we must focus on the opportunities and the engine that technology is going to be in the economic reactivation ”.
During the conversation The experts alluded to the job opportunities offered by the technology sector, however, they warned that professionals often do not have the required skills. To face this situation, Fabiano Matos, Managing Director of Oracol for Colombia and Ecuador, stated that it is necessary to support new professionals from public and private companies, and also referred to the importance of having a qualified workforce that can comply with the expectations of investors who are interested in establishing alliances in Colombia
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