Kakao (CEO Namgoong-hoon) announced on the 3rd that it has been selected as a business operator for ‘K-Digital Training’, a training program for nurturing key practical talents in new digital technologies promoted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Vocational Competency Review and Assessment Service, and will operate the ‘Digital Leading Company Academy’ training course.
The Digital Leading Company Academy is part of ‘K-Digital Training’, a Korean New Deal digital core practical talent training project. Digital companies directly design and operate training courses to educate talent.
Kakao opened the ‘Kakao Cloud School’ for hands-on professional personnel for the operation, development, and management of cloud systems, and launched the ‘Kakao Cloud Developer Training Course’ and the ‘Kakao Cloud Engineer Training Course’ in the first and second half of 2022. It will be conducted over two rounds. The number of people selected per course is 25, and a total of 100 people will be trained.
This training course will be conducted in conjunction with the Radio Frequency Association of Korea (RAFA) under the Ministry of Science and ICT, an operational support organization. About 10 people currently in charge of cloud work at Kakao directly participate in the training as lecturers and mentors, and it is characterized by being a field-oriented project that builds and operates a cloud in Kakao’s actual development work environment.
Kakao’s self-developed cloud-based learning management system (LMS) SaaS (software as a service), ‘Krempoline’, will also be applied on a pilot basis.
Trainees who wish to participate in the course in the first half of 2022 can apply by the 25th through the Kakao Cloud School recruitment website. After a document screening, aptitude test, and an interview with Kakao’s working staff, the final successful candidates will be selected on June 6.
During the selection process, we plan to comprehensively review applicants’ major knowledge, willingness to participate, and growth potential. After the course is completed, awards will be given to outstanding trainees, and all graduates will be given preferential treatment in document screening when applying to recruit Kakao developers in the future.
Gong-Jun Kong, Cloud Director of Kakao’s Technology Strategy Office, said, “We plan to faithfully proceed with the curriculum so that students trained through this course can be immediately put into work,” adding, “We will proactively discover and nurture digital innovation talent with potential to create social employment.” “I will contribute to raising it,” he said.
Since 2007, Kakao has been operating ‘Kakao Track’, which provides customized education for companies, in collaboration with Jeju National University’s Engineering Education Innovation Center. KakaoTrack is a successful industry-academia program where Kakao executives and employees directly lecture on major subjects as track adjunct professors, provide mentoring and field training with employees, select students to participate in the track, and operate internship programs, creating a win-win between companies and universities. It is evolving into a collaborative model.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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