April 12/2011 - Resource opens registration for the Training Program

After the success of the first group, with 100% of success, the company is now recruiting 24 more college students to meet its own demands.

Resource announced the opening of new places for students interested in joining the second class of the Professional Training Programme. Divided into three phases, the program includes training students in Java and .Net for a three-month course of four hours per day. Those approved will be accompanied and guided by mentoring teams and finally participate in some projects prior to be hired. The success of the first program, implemented in 2010, prompted the organizers to start a new group in 2011. Entries were up on April 15 for students from first to third year of university courses related to IT.

According to Fabiana Batistela, Corporate manager, Resource, and creator of the program, the project's goal is to place the student in the labor market in the first years of college because that is how he will have the opportunity to put into practice all his talent and creativity. Moreover, there is a real shortage of IT manpower in the country and the company decided to take action to meet its own demand.

First class: 100% success

The first class of the Professional Training Programme has achieved a 100% success rate, taking into account that all the 24 trainees who started training evolved and now are closer to being hired. Started in October 2010 and with investment of nearly R$ 1.5 million, the program selected 70 candidates out of 300 résumés received. "In a continuous process of training, some of them are already programming in Java and .Net," says Renata Fabiana Bellinatti, manager of Human Resource Development, Resource.

All of the 24 interns from the class of 2010 are undergraduate students from Information Technology. They completed the first part of the program last December, featuring an intensive course - technical and behavioral - and all of them were approved. In a second phase, lasting 90 days, they remained within Resource for six hours per day, with adjusted earnings and in a mentoring process. "Some of these apprentices have evolved so much that have already advanced to the third stage and are involved in projects,"she says.

Mentors satisfied with learners' performance

Felipe Alves Breliglieri Castilho, 26, for example, is already actively participating in a project of R$ 1 million. According to his manager, Luis Henrique Soares, Project Manager of the Software Factory, Philip stood out in both technical and behavioral aspects, which includes customer service, professional attitude and organization of time, among other attitudes. "From the beginning, he has attended meetings and worked effectively in both the test processes and developing," Soares says. Other examples of grit and determination are Giannelis Bruno de Mello and Vanessa Cristina da Silva Martins, who are being accompanied by Rodrigo Constantino, Development Coordinator. "They stood out from the beginning and are already programming in Java and working on requirements analysis projects," the coordinator says.

"I'm very happy about the opportunity. After working six years in the administrative area, I was a bit hesitant, because, although I like technology, I found doing the requirements of analysis and generating documentation very difficult, but I learned a lot at Resource," says Vanessa.

Importance of teamwork

Roberto Guedes, Project Manager, has under his guidance some of those learners who are engaged in the development of internal projects planned, as the automation of the Pointing Time system of the Code Factory Team, among others. According to Guedes, the main challenge was to eliminate the natural fear that all trainees have to reveal their lack of knowledge. "We must keep them motivated and show the importance of teamwork. Moreover, it is gratifying to see them advance learning, not to mention that we also learn from them, begin to see situations from a new point of view and over time we develop new habits that allow us to think differently, often with best results. This integration has been very positive," Guedes says.

Final stage

The third and final phase of the program requires all participants to undergo an assessment and, after that, they have to start working as programmers and then they may be hired. "This is a new professional moment, when they will begin to participate in some projects, although sparingly, but now with an added responsibility. Thus, compensation will also be differentiated, as well as requirements in terms of performance," Fabiana Bellinatti concludes.