Aníbal Gonda, vice president of Human Capital of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (Cuti) said on DelSol 99.5's No toquen nada that the main reason for this need is that the sector is growing.
"Thirty years ago, the software sector was basically a developer and nothing more, and today it is increasingly broader: it goes from people who do hardware things to those who do communication and design things. In that aspect we have a lot of very diverse profiles and I think that as the world goes, there will be more and more: engineers, programmers, designers, communicators, everything," said Gonda.
He also explained that companies must also be made aware of the need to consider the profiles of new technicians entering the labour market.
"The basic technicians are just starting to be trained now. The only profile we had were the faculty graduates, who had a higher technical level. What we are also doing from CUTI is to sensitize all the members, to tell them that now we have all these new profiles that we have to bet on. As it is a profile that they were not looking for, now we have to put them to the companies and tell them that we have these new profiles", he added.
Beyond the technical training, Gonda emphasized that the basic courses serve to open the doors of the industry to people who consider it foreign.
"We seek to raise awareness among populations that did not study technical careers thinking that the only alternative was to be an engineer. When you put the word 'engineer' they think you are going to work at NASA, or be a mathematician, and no, in reality, there are a lot of intermediate alternatives for which it is not necessary to have such a strong mathematical training. There are profiles for everything. People who don't have a direct link with the industry don't know and somehow a lot of preconceptions are generated", commented Gonda.
More women
The vice-president of Human Capital of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies also recognized a great imbalance between men and women in the industry and stressed the need to work on it.
"When they were told that they were going to have an evaluation, 50% of the women decided not to participate in it without knowing what it was or how it was going to be done. So, there is something at a social level that we have to turn around and improve, because we certainly need to have teams that are as diverse as possible, with diverse profiles and at a gender level. Women have a totally different contribution than men and I think that enriches the industry a lot," she said.
Asked about the number of women in Cuti, Gonda said that "it is unfortunate". "We have a number, which is practically set in stone, which is 80-20 of men over women at the university level and in employment in the industry is 70-30. Because there are other profiles that are not university graduates. There is not an issue of exclusion but of self-exclusion, we have really important problems," she commented.
Source: 180
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