Seeing the need to hire competitive information technology specialists in the BPO industry, the Davao-based Concentrix Institute has opened a training course that will lead to a certification window, the first of its kind in Mindanao .
Concentrix site director Gary Dumael bared that the growth in number of IT graduates is not that significant to the needs of IT specialists in the industry.
“We are helping the academe cope with this gap by providing our own training course and opening a certification window through Pearson VUE as its Authorized Test Center for the Cisco Certified Network Associate”, he said.
Dumael announced the BPO’s plan of hiring about 400 CCNAs by the fourth quarter of this year.
“ We are preparing this as we welcome an exciting technology, the newest, which involves voice and video.”, he added.
Instead of going to Cebu or Manila to take the CCNA certification exam, the opening of Concentrix Test center is good news to Mindanaoans.
Aside from the test window, the institute also offers a training course that uses state-of-the-art facilities and cutting edge equipment, on-site, off-site and in-house training courses combined with structure classroom discussion, hands-on activities and self-paced learning.
The entire training course runs for 33 days, on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 6pm, with a training fee of P26,000, or P40,000 for the training with certification exam package.
For the six batches, the institute has trained a total of 77 IT trainees who have pursued Cisco certification after the course. (PIA/Mai Gevera)
