Group size: 16 – 20 students

Course duration: 2 hour x 2 times a week = 44 hours (22 days (around 2.5 month))

Practical Course “Soft Skill for IT career” is aimed to successfully combine hard or technical skills with core soft skills to achieve better results in your career or set new goals and be a became a part of Global IT.

This course is divided into several sets related to IT business, personal effectiveness and team cooperation to cover the main competence areas and advance skills.

Course description

The practical course “Soft Skills for IT career” offers a full set of knowledge and skills to start their career in Software with outsourcing company effectively.

You will go through all main stages of Soft Skills development while the modules from the first day of the course:

· Module 1. IT Industry Wrap-Up. Global IT Awareness and Trends. Corporate Culture (company types, strategies). Soft Skills - an integral component of successful career in IT-industry

· Module 2. Effective Communication for Successful Career. Fundamentals of Communication Competency, how to give and receive feedback, hints for good presentation, cultural differences awareness, effective meetings and effective written communication.

· Module 3. How to Achieve Personal Effectiveness. Personal Motivation for Achievement. Adaptability to Change. Professional Development - Stimulus to Growth. Setting Goal and Planning. Problems Solving.

· Module 4. Tips & Tricks of a Successful Job Interview. Top tips for interview negotiations. How To Create the Perfect CV?

· Module 5.Together Everyone achieves more. Building an effective team. Dealing with Conflict Effectively. Project Team: Roles and Responsibilities. Basics of SDLC. Fundamentals of Scrum Methodology

Each student who will complete the course will get SoftServe University certificate.

For whom?

People who have:

· Trainee, junior level positions or people who are interested in future IT career

· Intermediate Low level of English (some materials and practical tasks are in English)

The duration, schedule and cost of the course

· Duration of the course: 2 hour x 2 times a week = 44 hours (22 days (2.5 month)).

· Schedule of the course: Twice a week 2 hours (Tuesday/Thursday). 5 modules, every module contains from 4 to 12 hours, depends on the topic. Twice a week 2 hours

· Start date: 28 November

Prices:

7 500 UAH (registration till Nov.13)

8 000 UAH (payment before course starts)

Detailed description of the knowledge and skills received after the course completion.

Each Module includes:

· Presentation, seminar, master-classes sessions;

· Practical tasks, Case Studies, Simulations games, examples of solving typical problems;

· Practical homework, tests related to appropriate topic

Training approach

· Completing practical task that develops the project step by step

· Each topic is taught by subject matter expert in appropriate area (more than 10 professional Soft Serve internal trainers)

· At final projects, students will be divided into teams (4-5), where mentor will be assigned.

As a result of successful course completion:

Completed the training program, students obtained the set of knowledge about effective cooperation in outsourcing IT-company, modern standards of professional profiles and how to achieve the expected, skills of effective interaction in organization and team:

· Deeper understanding Students of IT-industry business

· Communicate effectively in various professional situations

· Get knowledge about personal effectiveness requirements and can develop the competence

· Become able to pass the job interview successfully

· Increase collaboration being productive project team-player

Trainers

Higly qualified trainers and experts with wide practical experience. They are real professionals and qualified specialists who will share their useful experience and “secrets” with you.

SoftServe’s trainers and experts: Nataliya Kuba, Nataliya Zahayska, Dmytro Bibikov, Serhiy Kovach, Oleg Koval, Yehor Asmankin, Vadym Sekret, Yuliya Yurchyshyn, etc.

Each course block is taught by a trainer who is an expert in this particular area, some topics are covered by experienced professionals in other areas (like Business Analysis, Project Management, Recruitment, Human resource).

The process of student selection

Registration

· Fill in the registration form at www.softserveinc.com

· Send CV + motivation letter

· Receive an email with the information about your registration status

· Wait for person to contact you

Invitation to the courses

· Program manager will contact participants and send an invitation to the training course