#Tech #jobs are now #whitecollar trades that need #apprenticeships, not a career crawl
They typically see graduates hired to work on help desks and encouraged to gain experience by building and experimenting with a home lab or acquiring vendor certifications so they can secure a role in a network operations center. While that progression builds skills, it can mean a decade or more passes before they advance into more meaningful network engineering roles.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/tech_career_paths_apprenticeships_needed/
@BenjaminHCCarr I'm obviously biased, but I couldn't agree more!
That's why we offer #Degree level #apprenticeship programmes covering #softwareengineering #network engineering and #datascience (for which we offer both generalised #data science and #bioinformatics routes).
https://www.aru.ac.uk/study/degree-apprenticeships/employer/our-courses