Huawei’s Handshaking Forum links new graduates to Ethiopia’s ICT industry

On May 9, 2022 260

Addis Ababa, May 9, 2022 (FBC) – Huawei Ethiopia held its second annual handshaking forum, a program aimed at promoting jobs to graduate students. The forum is organized in collaboration with Addis Ababa University at 6 kilo campus.

Huawei has a long-standing commitment to train and certify new graduates and equip them with the latest trends in the industry like Datacom, Artificial Intelligence, Storage, LTE, Bigdata, wireless LAN and other more.

Huawei is working in collaboration with Ethiopian Ministry of Education and has opened an ICT academy in 42 private and government universities. After going through all the trainings and passing the exams Huawei issues international certificates to the students.

At this expo, Huawei intended to collect more than 500 resumes from new graduates from different universities. And it gives a special privilege to Huawei-certified students. At last year’s Forum, more than 600 resumes from science, engineering, math, and ICT professionals were collected and distributed to its partners based on their consent, to be recruited for potential job opportunities.

Huawei has also special internships trend. Huawei gives a chance to new graduates to join for three-month internship program at its Ethiopian head office. During their stay, new graduates will acquire work experience, familiarize themselves with the work environment, and learn work discipline. Based on their performance, Huawei is also giving a chance to be hired. Last year, Huawei offered internships to over 250 new graduates and hired more than 200. This year also has a plan to accept up to 300 new graduates; currently more than 90 interns are enrolling in the program.

Huawei Northern Region Public Relations director Ye Liming said “Huawei Handshaking forum enables new graduates and potential employers to meet in one place to practice better recruiting experience.” He also advised ICT and engineering students to attend the Huawei ICT academy courses and become internationally certified professionals.

“Huawei has opened Huawei ICT Academy in more than 42 Higher education Institutions located in different parts of Ethiopia. This year, more than 100 students got certified in Huawei ICT Certification. There are 1159 certified professionals; also, over 4395 students registered and associated to Huawei ICT academies. More than half of them are active and attend online and onsite classes.”

“Huawei will continue to bring innovative ICT solutions to Ethiopia; actively promote the development of the ICT industry in the country, and jointly develop with local partners to build a fully connected Intelligent World.” Ye Liming added.