21 Sep 2017
North needs 500 to 1000 new technology talents
Porto Tech Hub says that Brexit is pushing companies into the region, but lacks demand-matching workforce.
Porto Tech Hub, an association which was launched three years ago with three technology companies and the goal of creating scale and attracting talent to Oporto, is experiencing "increased interest from investors who want to settle in the region" and "Brexit is providing very interesting investment opportunities that will only be unveiled in 2018."
"We are attracting more investment than the existing human resources allow us to develop," said Paula Gomes da Costa, president of Porto Tech Hub. Annually, in the region, "at least 500 to 1000 new graduates are lacking" in the area of programming Computing". To help change this scenario, companies have joined forces and, through PortoTech Hub and ISEP, will start the first group of the "Switch" program next week.
"We started with a class of 29 students, graduates in other areas, who will be reconverted and, within a year, received in our companies for a professional internship. It is still a drop in the ocean, but it is a start, and we believe that, with ISEP, we will be able to scale the program to other regions ", she said.
Also last last year, large technology multinationals settled in Oporto, such as Natixis and Euronext, increasing the competition for scarce human resources. Some even hire talent hunters to recruit hundreds at a time, outside colleges. Within Port Tech Hub, collaboration is the key word. And recruitment is always open, whether at Blip, FMQ, IT Sector, Critical Software and even the latest Bit Associate. This former information systems department of Sonae MC develops cutting-edge retail solutions and will launch, within days, the Disrupt Retail program, inviting start-ups to develop their new technologies alongside the trade giants.
Foreigners at Blip
One of the founders of Porto Tech Hub, who employs hundreds of computer specialists, is continually recruiting, as in other companies in the sector, and has been able to bring back emigrant or foreign talents attracted by the quality of life.
100 for Critical Software
Today's 100 recruitments can become 150 tomorrow, depending on the projects, says Nuno Vinagre, director of HR. More than 500 work in the software company, between Oporto, Coimbra, Lisbon, Germany and the United Kingdom.
IT Sector Conquers the Interior
With the inauguration of another centre in Bragança this month, the Oporto company has managed to keep 20 graduates and is hiring another 60 by the end of the year.
Call for start-ups
Bit, responsible for Sonae MC technology, already has the disruptretail.sonae.pt site up and running, where it invites start-ups to develop technologies that are applicable to retail.
Porto Tech Hub, an association which was launched three years ago with three technology companies and the goal of creating scale and attracting talent to Oporto, is experiencing "increased interest from investors who want to settle in the region" and "Brexit is providing very interesting investment opportunities that will only be unveiled in 2018."
"We are attracting more investment than the existing human resources allow us to develop," said Paula Gomes da Costa, president of Porto Tech Hub. Annually, in the region, "at least 500 to 1000 new graduates are lacking" in the area of programming Computing". To help change this scenario, companies have joined forces and, through PortoTech Hub and ISEP, will start the first group of the "Switch" program next week.
"We started with a class of 29 students, graduates in other areas, who will be reconverted and, within a year, received in our companies for a professional internship. It is still a drop in the ocean, but it is a start, and we believe that, with ISEP, we will be able to scale the program to other regions ", she said.
Also last last year, large technology multinationals settled in Oporto, such as Natixis and Euronext, increasing the competition for scarce human resources. Some even hire talent hunters to recruit hundreds at a time, outside colleges. Within Port Tech Hub, collaboration is the key word. And recruitment is always open, whether at Blip, FMQ, IT Sector, Critical Software and even the latest Bit Associate. This former information systems department of Sonae MC develops cutting-edge retail solutions and will launch, within days, the Disrupt Retail program, inviting start-ups to develop their new technologies alongside the trade giants.
Foreigners at Blip
One of the founders of Porto Tech Hub, who employs hundreds of computer specialists, is continually recruiting, as in other companies in the sector, and has been able to bring back emigrant or foreign talents attracted by the quality of life.
100 for Critical Software
Today's 100 recruitments can become 150 tomorrow, depending on the projects, says Nuno Vinagre, director of HR. More than 500 work in the software company, between Oporto, Coimbra, Lisbon, Germany and the United Kingdom.
IT Sector Conquers the Interior
With the inauguration of another centre in Bragança this month, the Oporto company has managed to keep 20 graduates and is hiring another 60 by the end of the year.
Call for start-ups
Bit, responsible for Sonae MC technology, already has the disruptretail.sonae.pt site up and running, where it invites start-ups to develop technologies that are applicable to retail.
Source:
In, AICEP