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Talent is Everywhere. Opportunity is not.

Create Opportunity is an initiative that increases the supply of high-demand software engineers through a screening, training and apprenticeship model designed for individuals from diverse, non-technical backgrounds.

Creating Opprortunity in

South Carolina

Create Opportunity's partnerships with Midlands Technical College and Spartanburg Community College is helping South Carolina to solve a systemic under-supply of software engineers while addressing pressing unemployment challenges.

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Henry Bryson

Assistant Vice President IT Delivery at Colonial Life

"Talent pipelines are hard to come by, especially when you need specific skill sets. Create Opportunity sends students through a tech crash course to prepare them for entry-level placement anywhere in the business."

Carl Lang

Application Development Manager, eCommerce Support at Palmetto GBA

"Justin's progress and ability to hit the ground running with our application development needs have been beyond our expectations as his experiences with Create Opportunity have clearly shown to be a great part of his recent success here at PalmettoGBA." - referring to Justin Williams, Create Opportunity Class of '23

Joe Simpson

Director of Software Development at Southeastern Freight Lines

"Create Opportunity has been a great benefit to Southeastern's pipeline for bringing new talent into our development support team. The benefits that we see are their time management and work ethic have been vetted, and they come well-prepared because Create Opportunity's program provides a strong full-stack development baseline, and also teaches them how to continue learning."

Hilary Schoenecker

Web Development Manager at Cyberwoven

"Jaron's transition into our team at the 'Weave was seamless - it felt like he'd been here all along! His first year as an apprentice was a whirlwind, collaborating on websites for diverse clients across higher, education, banking, and cultural sectors. The Create Opportunity program equipped him with the skills needed to thrive in our dynamic environment. We're so thankful to them for helping Jaron hit the ground running and become such a valuable member of Cyberwoven's web development team."

Outcomes

Individuals

Individuals that successfully complete the apprenticeship emerge as qualified software engineers ready to work in an enterprise development environment. At this point, the engineer's salary should be equivalent to market rate for a mid-level developer with 2-3 years of experience, and they should be highly upwardly mobile.

Professional Community

Create Opportunity endeavors to maximize community attachment, strengthen long-term professional development opportunities for program graduates, and will foster a healthy and vibrant community of software engineers in the region.

City, Region, and State

Create Opportunity will increase the supply of high-demand software engineers in our region and support local economic development by fueling the growth of existing employers and the recruitment of new employers to the region with a capable technology workforce.