The Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) and Ceibal signed an agreement whereby women from the interior of the country, participants in the Jovenes a Programar initiative, will join the information technology sector, a highly dynamic industry. The objective is to meet the needs of the labor market and reduce the gender gap in the sector, explained the National Director of Employment, Daniel Pérez.
The event took place in the MTSS assembly hall, with the participation of Ceibal’s general manager, Fiorella Haim.
The information technology sector is very dynamic and it is estimated that there are between 3,000 and 5,000 jobs available that cannot be filled due to lack of trained personnel. In addition, it is a labor area that presents a considerable gender gap, since only two out of 10 people who work in the field are women. For this reason, the agreement promotes a double objective: to meet the needs of the labor market and reduce the gender gap, explained Pérez.
The agreement will allow the incorporation of 200 women from eight departments of the interior who will access the profiles tester junior and junior programmer, from the Youth to Program initiative that Ceibal executes.
The objective is “that they can get a job in one of the companies that are joining this program,” Pérez explained. Those who are selected will access a six-month training process that they will access in their own workplace.
The program will also provide the possibility of accrediting knowledge. A team from the National Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (Inefop) will be responsible for evaluating the skills incorporated once the training process is complete. “They will have a certificate from Inefop, which would be equivalent to having taken a course, with the difference that they learned while they were working and receiving a salary,” said Pérez.
Participating companies will be provided with a work methodology that includes the training of tutors to carry out the training. This dynamic will remain as an asset of the companies for future actions. Training in gender perspective will also be provided.
Youth to Program
For his part, Haim highlighted the synergy achieved between Ceibal and the National Employment Directorate. Both institutions seek to reduce the difference in opportunities between genders. He added that this insertion at the departmental level makes it possible to deepen the learning that people incorporate through the Jovenes a Programar program and allows the consolidation of entry into the industry.
This training proposal is a Ceibal project that seeks to train and employ young people between 18 and 30 years of age in the area of information technology. Haim explained that, since the beginning of the program, 41% of those who have graduated are women. Registration will open in December to participate in a new edition.
