Digifypro, a non for profit initiative by Digify Africa has celebrated its 100 young Nigerian graduates that have been reskilled and placed in new generation places of work following the graduation of the 5th cohorts in Lagos recently.
The intensive Eight-week Bootcamp, which is supported by Facebook, cuts across practical hands-on experience on digital marketing — from SEO to content marketing, live briefs workshops/presentations, vocational, workplace skills; agency processes, customer care, and client services.
Florence Atunwa Olumodimu, Program Director, DigifyPro Nigeria, while speaking during the graduation of the 5th cohorts, said the programme which seeks to train 20 Nigerian graduates who are unemployed between the ages of 20 to 30 years for a cohort, has successfully recorded over 98 per cent of full-time employment across various sectors in the economy for the beneficiaries, with most of the leading organisations’ digital team.
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“From the first #DigfyPro Cohort 1.0, It has been exciting journeys for us at Digify Nigeria, transforming an everyday graduate to total career-ready professionals with the right mindset, right attitude, knowledge and practical hands on experiences through the well-structured system put in place designed to equip the next generation of digital talent from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.”
“The beneficiaries are then also tasked through our community give-back initiative #GetDigitalNigeria to reach out to their communities, youths, associations and institutions that need digital skills training an endeavour that will continue to help contribute to closing the digital skills gap in Nigeria”
“These beneficiaries, come to us with little or no knowledge about the digital space, and within 8 weeks they are transformed to perform weekly live briefs set by agencies, where they got to conceptualise campaigns and show off their talents to prospective employers after they are inducted into a three-month work experience phase in order to apply all they have learnt in class with various organisations, and almost 90 per cent of the time the beneficiaries have been retained and employed full time.
She, however, called on organisations to seize this opportunity by requesting for participants from the programme as “the programme offers job readiness skills to ensure that they were able to thrive in the workplace and offer value to their employers.”
Speaking to BusinessDay, Rejoice Orjiene a graduate of Dental Technology, one of the beneficiaries from the 5th cohort, said during the programme she has been able to redefine her career path and now less confused on what she has to do in the future.
Another Iyanuoluwa Olawadara a graduate of Agriculture economics from the University of Ibadan said, “before now I was not disciplined in time management, because of the programme intensity, I have been able to master that skill and stay calm while under pressure. It has been an all-round experience for me.”
Digify Africa, a non-for-profit organization marks the graduation of the 5th cohort of participants in its initiative known as DigifyPro supported by Facebook. Digify Africa celebrated this laudable milestone of empowering 100 young unemployed Nigerian graduates who have been reskilled with cutting edge digital skills gained at their 8 weeks intensive Bootcamp and all of whom have been placed in new generation places of work following graduation.
The intensive Eight-week Bootcamp, which is supported by Facebook, cuts across practical hands-on experience on digital marketing — from SEO to content marketing, live briefs workshops/presentations, vocational, workplace skills; agency processes, customer care, and client services.
Florence Atunwa Olumodimu, Program Director in Nigeria, while speaking during the graduation of the 5th cohorts, said the programme which seeks to train 20 Nigerian graduates who are unemployed between the ages of 20 to 30 years for a cohort, has successfully recorded over 98 per cent of full-time employment across various sectors in the economy for the beneficiaries, with most of the leading organisation’s digital team.
“From the first #DigfyPro Cohort 1.0, It has been exciting journeys for us at Digify Africa in Nigeria, transforming everyday graduates to total career-ready digital professionals with the right mindset, right attitude, knowledge and practical hands on experiences through the well-structured system put in place designed to equip the next generation of digital talent from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.”
“The beneficiaries are then also tasked through our community give-back initiative #GetDigitalNigeria to reach out to their communities, youths, associations and institutions that need digital skills training an endeavour that will continue to help contribute to closing the digital skills gap in Nigeria”
“These beneficiaries, come to us with little or no knowledge about the digital space, and within 8 weeks they are transformed to perform weekly live briefs set by agencies, where they got to conceptualise campaigns and show off their talents to prospective employers after they are inducted into a three-month work experience phase in order to apply all they have learnt in class with various organisations, and almost 90 per cent of the time the beneficiaries have been retained and employed full time.
She, however, called on organisations to seize this opportunity by requesting for participants from the programme as “the programme offers job readiness skills to ensure that they were able to thrive in the workplace and offer value to their employers.”
Speaking to BusinessDay, Rejoice Orjiene a graduate of Dental Technology, one of the beneficiaries from the 5th cohort, said during the programme she has been able to redefine her career path and now less confused on what she has to do in the future.
Another Iyanuoluwa Olawadara a graduate of Agriculture economics from the University of Ibadan said, “before now I was not disciplined in time management, because of the programme intensity, I have been able to master that skill and stay calm while under pressure. It has been an all-round experience for me.”
