Developing you niche as a student

The technical space requires the best of the best. As a student, getting to this specialized niche and having laser-focused skills seems daunting. The thought of moving to an industry and going to compete in a highly competitive market is always hard for many students.
But regardless of all the challenges that seem ahead, students have an advantage that those in the industry can't quite match up to. The current tech world has made lots of steps to ensure that students get the support and help they need for a smooth transition to the industry.
From a wealth of resources to amazing internship opportunities to even tech communities focusing on guiding students. Now is the best time to be a student.
As students, we need to be aware of our superpowers and utilize every tool at our disposal to ensure as we move to the industry, we shake things and develop our own niche and space out there

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1. How to utilize available tools and opportunities as students to get industry-ready Developing your niche as a Student Tech Talks
2. Current state of school to work transition Industry demand for highly skilled tech professionals The gap between school and industry Remote space to the rescue Student-focused skills programs, learning resources, and opportunities Utilizing them all to being a super student What I will talk about
3. Youth Unemployment Employed 61% Unemployed 39% From a study conducted in late 2020, about 39 percent of youth were unemployed. The unemployment rate is coupled by various factors including job opportunities, low skills and even high competition in the industry
4. Industry demand for highly skilled tech professionals This has led to a complication to students causing despair to some of them With competition on the horizon, many local and international tech companies have sought to look for highly skilled professionals leaving little space for junior ones. This has led to despair among many students
5. The extra demand for high skills and tech to industry transition has led to the existence of a big gap between skills students have and skills employers require The big gap
6. How do we solve all these problems? Tech Talks
7. The Rescue
8. The Remote space Covid-19 revamped the remote space and showed its use With the dawn of Covid and all places closing down, a new space full of opportunities opened up
9. Benefits of remote space ACCESSIBILITY FLEXIBILITY EQUALITY
10. Student Benefits in the Technology workspace Tech Talks
11. Learning Resources and skills opportunities
12. GitHub Education GITHUB STUDENT DEVELOPER PACK GITHUB STREAM TEAM GITHUB CAMPUS EXPERT PROGRAM
14. IBM SkillsBuild
15. Pluralsight One
16. LinkedIn Learning ACCESS TO SOFT SKILLS COURSES
17. Coursera For Campus
18. Grow With Google CAREER CERTIFICATES GOOGLE CERTIFICATIONS GOOGLE DEV LIBRARY GOOGLE DIGITAL SKILLS FOR AFRICA INTERNSHIPS
19. Microsoft Learn GAME OF LEARNERS MICROSOFT LEARN PLATFORM CAREER CATALYST PROGRAMS MICROSOFT LEAP INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
20. Devpost BIGGEST HACKATHON PLATFORM GET OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
21. Tech Communities MOST POWERFUL TOOL JOIN AS MANY AS YOU CAN LEARN, SHARE AND GROW GROW SKILLS AND NETWORKS
22. Conclusion
23. TAKE A PERSONALITY TEST, GET TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF AND WHAT CAREER WOULD BEST SUIT YOU. UNDERSTAND THE BEST SPACE THAT YOU CAN FILL TO GIVE YOU SATISFACTION AND JOY Know who you are
24. As students, we are a necessary part of the technology space. We all have something to give. Therefore let's go out there and take our space
25. Do you have any questions?