E is for Eskwelabs Issue 042 - Year 2021: A Successful Run 📅 🏆
In our forty-second issue, we celebrate the breakthroughs that Eskwelabs achieved this year with the help of our learners and company and organizational partners.
We created this newsletter to keep our alums, partners, and anyone interested in learning skills for the future of work updated and connected to our ever-growing family. If you want to read our previous issues, you can check them out here.
Christmas greetings dear Eskweloves! 🎄🎁
As we close in on the holidays, we at Eskwelabs are gearing up to take time off to celebrate the year with our family and friends. But before that, we’d like to share our wins which we accomplished together with you, our readers, as well as our learners and the many other individuals and partner organizations that made our 2021 fruitful despite the challenging times.🏆👬👭
What’s in this holiday and year-end edition newsletter:
🏆 Eskwelabs celebrates its wins for 2021
📊 🏷️Our Data Analytics Bootcamp has enticing tuition options
📣 The Eskwelabs team goes on temporary vacation
👔 💼 New career opportunities await jobseekers in 2022
⚡ The Eskwelabs Team shares its victories for 2021
As we close in on the holidays, the Eskwelabs team is gearing up to take time off to celebrate the year with our family and friends. But before that, it’s time for us to celebrate the wins we accomplished together.
In 2021, Eskwelabs continued to bring quality data skills education that was memorable for our learners and transformative for their careers. Read some of their stories and well wishes to our team here:
In 2021, we continued to work remotely and grew our team by 3x. Our work would not be possible without the team of almost 50 instructors and mentors who are at the heart of how Eskwelabs learners experience upskilling.
Eskwelabs also kicked-off two major partnerships that will carry forward into the new year:
We launched a partnership with the Australian government and FHMoms to upskill 10,000 women freelancers in data literacy.
With Accenture and the Asian Institute of Management-Dado Banatao Incubator, Eskwelabs introduced the Innovate with Data program, a collaborative learning journey to transform start-ups into data-driven companies.
The acceleration of the digital economy post-pandemic has created demand for every employee to develop tactical skills for data-driven decision-making. As a result, staff from non-technical teams like operations, HR, and marketing started to learn data analytics and we saw a 150% increase in cohort sizes as a result:
Our data analytics learners include those like Joshua Crescini, who is using his SQL skills towards building an e-commerce platform (you can watch his video below to get some casual career insights and hear his Eskwelabs story). Learners also include call center agents at TaskUs, who were upskilled to become Data Analysts through a company-sponsored data academy.
Eskwelabs continued to grant scholarships to about 10% of the learners in our public program. Scholars like Mark Paul Alquiza or “Poks,” a high school teacher who wants to become more effective and inspiring, are transforming organizations outside of industry to also become more data-driven. Hear his story by clicking on the link below:
We partnered with fast-growing startups like Kumu, Nextpay, and Mayani to develop a project-based curriculum which represents the latest industry use cases of data skills.
A few things we are excited about for 2022 include some of these. We will be...
Pioneering the country’s first tech-driven apprenticeships as an impactful complement to our bootcamps. Click here to learn more.
Through an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded pilot, working with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to improve the national technical-vocational agency so it can incorporate data literacy.
Launching career accelerators with universities to equip graduating students with data skills to complement their degree programs.
And more...
Most importantly, we look forward to growing our impact and achieving our mission of democratizing opportunities in the future of work. As we see more learners at Eskwelabs who are not the typical “tech worker,” we’re excited for them to land new career opportunities that are opening up in the digital economy for anyone with the willingness to learn.
⚡ New Data Analytics Bootcamp tuition options are unveiled
We also consider making our potential learners’ lives easier as a crucial achievement for the year. One of the ways we do this is through our tuition discounts, which make payments for our industry-relevant and cutting-edge bootcamps more manageable. 👛🖥️
To check out what discounts we offer for our Data Analytics Bootcamp, you may check out this link to learn more.
⚡ Eskwelabs goes on holiday break
The year 2021 was as fun as it was challenging. Therefore, our team needs a short break from all the action so we can better serve your data upskilling needs when 2022 comes. 🏖️💪
We will be out from December 18, 2021 to January 2, 2022. If you have any questions or concerns within that time period, we’ll promptly and gladly get back to you by the 3rd of January next year. 🤗
While we are out on break, please feel free to browse our website to get more information about our data bootcamps. You may also enjoy some light but substantial readings in our curated blog posts section, which talks about the exciting connection of data with cutting-edge business, legal research, education, career development, and social progress in general. ☕📖
You can also find us in the following online channels:
⚡ The New Year ushers in fresh career starts
The flipping of the calendar to January 2022 is not that far away. Perhaps turning a new chapter in your career might be a timely choice as well? 🤔
If you’re about to graduate or simply want a fresh career start, we welcome passionate individuals who share our vision of data education for the common good. 👨💻👩💻 We have openings for the following types of professionals:
Mentors - Guides students closely during data projects in the following bootcamps:
Instructors - Teaches learners key concepts and software usage skills in:
Other professionals
Click here to find other openings that might suit your skills and needs.
That’s it for our forty-second issue of the newsletter! Thanks so much for reading and again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! ❤️
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Have a good Sunday! We look forward to seeing you again next year! 😎
💌 Your friend in the world of data,
Mel
Content Associate at Eskwelabs