Increasingly, students enrolled into the Qlik Academic Program have at their disposal various opportunities to forward their career. Students are securing internships and jobs within Qlik and with customers and partners of Qlik across the globe.
The academic program provides free resources in the form of online training, qualifications and certification to students and professors. The program offers structured pathways to become a Qlik Sense Business Analyst and Qlik Sense Data Architect after which students can appear for the exams and get their certifications. This program has been quite popular with more than 26,000 students from 2400+ Universities leveraging these free resources. Being industry developed makes it more relevant to the market demands.
Relationship between National University of Singapore ( NUS) has been thriving and students from National University of Singapore (NUS) have enrolled into the program quite regularly. The Singapore office of Qlik has recruited from the University which has resulted in a successful partnership between Qlik and NUS. The academic program continued to build engagement with NUS with various initiatives.
Another recent example is that of Sri Vishnu Educational Society ( SVES) in India which has more than 250 students and Professors enrolled into the Qlik Academic Program. Data analytics start up Diagonal wanted to recruit Qlik trained students for its expansion plans. The company consults technology clients in data analytics and for its projects and they wanted students who are up to speed in analytics and Qlik technologies so that they could be deployed on their projects immediately. The academic program was supportive of this initiative and facilitated the engagement between BVRIT and Diagonal.
Qlik has an R&D Centre in Bangalore and they have a continuous requirement of qualified candidates. Recently, they advertised their requirement for interns for their R&D projects. These projects are great opportunities for students to learn latest advancements in analytics technologies and fast forward their career. With the help of the academic program, the R&D team at Qlik are able to meet their requirements.
Many such opportunities are sprouting for students across the globe and the Qlik Academic Program continues to bridge the skills gaps for analytics trained resources. If you are a student or Professor and wish to know about the academic program and learn from its free resources, visit: qlik.com/academicprogram or email: academicprogram@qlik.com
