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The Cape IT Initiative (CITi) is a not-for-profit company established in 1998 to initiate projects and programmes to enable the IT industry (companies, employees and entrepreneurs) in the Western Cape to be successful. One of CITi’s programmes is CapaCITi 1000 (www.capaciti1000.org.za), a multi-stakeholder training, internship and research initiative that brings together industry, academia and government to grow the pool of graduate level IT skills in critical short supply. It is funded by industry, government and the Sectoral Education Training Authorities (SETAs).

CapaCITi 1000 currently has 101 graduates doing post-graduate diplomas or software certification training across 5 training programmes at 3 universities (UCT, CPUT and UWC). The IT Infrastructure, Java, PHP and general software development students will all become available for placement in internships between June and August 2012. The 2012 Business Analysis & Systems Analysis programme intake have all been placed (at Old Mutual, Sanlam, TFG, Pick ‘n Pay, Shoprite and JD Group).

CITi News & Events Update, 14 May 2012

NEWS UPDATE: CITi is hosting the following upcoming events in May 2012

32 CapaCITi 1000 trained software development and infrastructure interns ready for industry

CapaCITi 1000 has been fast-tracking and bootcamping 32 non-IT graduates through two intensive new post-graduate diploma programmes at UWC – 15 in Infrastructure and 17 in software development. They will be ready to start in industry from Monday 18 June on paid internships (minimum R 3500 pm). During their internship they will go back to UWC in short blocks to get further training and nurturing.

They are available for interviews on Wednesday 16 May (Software Development) and Thursday 17 May (Infrastructure ITAIM) .

This is what they can do for you right now (and will be able to do more by the time they start):

PG DIP Software Development

Can build a database and use SQL
Know fundamentals of Java and can work with Java GUI and NetBeans IDE.
Can write HTML and CSS files
Understand datatypes, objects and types, inheritance, collections frameworks and arrays
Basic XML understanding
By the time they get to industry, they will also have learnt about Java websites, how to write threaded apps and will cover mobile apps, among other things)

Interested? Candidate speed-dating interviews are being held on Wednesday 16 May. Apply to attend at http://swdinterviews16may.eventbrite.com/ and/or request a copy of our booklet on our talented graduates.

PG DIP IT Infrastructure and Application Management

Can set up servers
Can set up networking and cabling infrastructure
Can build a PC
Can refurbish PCs and laptops
(and much more by the time they get to industry)

Interested? Candidate speed-dating interviews are being held on Wednesday 16 May 2012. Apply to attend at http://itaiminterviews17may.eventbrite.com/ and/or request a copy of our booklet on thesetalented graduates.

Events & News

Invitation to capaCITi1000 Speed-Pitching Event

The Cape IT Initiative (CITi) cordially invites you to attend the CapaCITi1000 speed-pitching event for the Software Development and IT Application and Infrastructure Management (ITAIM) post-graduate diploma internship program on Wednesday, 16^th May 2012 and Thursday, 17^th May 2012.