About 50 percent of the students in HackYourFuture’s classes are women. “When we select among the applicants, we try to get a mix of both men and women. But mainly we want to compose our classes with the candidates who are most likely to get a job afterwards. We look at their ability to learn, their motivation and the skills they already possess. Apparently, we are doing this with success because 80 percent of our candidates find relevant jobs within the IT sector after the 8-month program at HackYourFuture. The hardest thing about getting a job in a foreign country is often soft skills, like being great at interviews, writing a catchy application or a good CV. That is why we focus a lot on these things while also focusing on the IT-skills. 

When the students leave HackYourFuture after the 8-month program, we have established an alumni-program so we can still follow the students and they can share their experiences with new students. We support alumni by connecting them with companies and working together with them in improving their soft skills. We offer mock interview and CV review and they help us back reviewing homework, or in classes contributing with their experience as former students and as web developer professionals which improves both their communication and dev skills and we also go beyond web development and offer master classes and organize events so that both our enrolled student and alumni broad their knowledge,” says Daniel Pastor Fernandes, Partnership Manager.