21st-Century Career Developers

Increasingly, higher education is out of the reach of the majority of people. CareerDevs allows traditional and non-consumers of education, anywhere in the world to gain 21-century skills online and pay via an income share agreement only if they land a relatively high-wage career in their country. Our proven low-cost model is already more than doubling the income of our students, in 12 months or less. Our solution can restore the middle class in countries such as the United States and enable poor 3rdworld nations to enter the developed world.

Despite a steady increase in the number of 4-year college graduates, two-thirds of people in the United States, do not have a college degree.  To make matters worse, only 27% land jobs in their major and two-thirds struggle to land a job at all. Next, the student loan debt crisis has reached $1.6 trillion dollars and even the students who are landing jobs often end up paying back their loan decades after they have found a job. In fact 40% of Senior Citizens who are also took out student loans are in default.  

To make matters worse, the cost of higher education is increasing rapidly, putting out of the reach of the ever-shrinking middle class.  The problem is worse still in that vast majority of college graduates are not gaining 21st-century skills.  Conversely, the number of open and unfillable high-wage 21stcentury skilled jobs will surpass 1 million next year.  Growth in our economy, companies and nations across the planet is stunted because of this lack of 21st-century skilled talent. These problems are all tied to one issue and CareerDevs is that solution.

It is important to note that we are initially nor specifically targeting the current group of higher-education consumers, we are mostly serving the non-consumers of traditional higher-education.  This group (which is significantly larger than the existing market) would like to consume higher education, however, they are priced out of it.  In time, we believe that they existing market will turn to the CareerDevs model for their solution as well. Currently, our current graduates are the best means of helping those whom we wish to serve understand their need and how our solution is perfect for them.  Every graduate influences 2.7 new people to join CareerDevs.  Our low-cost, 12-month solution guarantees every graduate a ticket to the middle class of their country via high-wage career.

Our solution is the CareerDevs Computer Science University. Our 12-month online or in person solution, requires NO money upfront.  Graduates only pay if they land a job earning a minimum of $50,000 per year (the average graduate earns $70,000 per year).  We work closely with hiring tech and tech-leaning companies to ensure that we are teaching cutting skills to our students.  We also teach curricula from schools such as Harvard University (CS50), Brown University and companies such as Microsoft, Google and others.

Our solution starts two months before a student begins our program.  Every applicant go through two-months of intro-level mentorship, where they can learn the basics, ask questions and get help if they are stuck.  The majority of the mentoring takes place online and the volunteer mentors are current CareerDevs students, current software developers in existing tech companies and/or other individuals across the globe who are talented in software engineering and computer science

If students succeed in the mentoring program, they are able to 

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Current number of people served: 0

Number of people served in one year: 50

Number of people served in 5 years: 250,000