Young Professionals Use Tech Skills to Secure Jobs in Georgia

IATP has a long track record of supporting IATP users in their professional development, giving them the ICT skills needed to jump ahead in any career. In a recent survey of IATP users, 20 percent of respondents reported that they secured their first job or moved to a better position because of the tech-focused training they received through IATP.

Twenty-year-old Nino Chkhvimiani in Georgia is a case in point. Though Chkhvimiani is a 3^rd-year journalism student at Tbilisi State University, her computer skills remained undeveloped and she lacked the confidence necessary to use technology in her daily life. After enrolling in a month-long ICT course at the Tbilisi IATP center, she completed training in computing and internet basics and mastered Microsoft Office suite software. With a new technological skill set and a boost to her self-confidence, Chkhvimiani took a chance and applied to be an intern with the journalism organization Studio Monitor in Tbilisi.

Chkhvimiani was accepted for the position and reported the good news back to the Tbilisi IATP center where she trained, saying, “I can’t express how grateful I am for the skills I acquired through IATP training. I use my computer and internet search knowledge all of the time in my new position. I owe the beginning of my career to IATP. I think that’s a pretty good start for a 3^rd-year student!” Chkhvimiani is just one of the 2210 users trained by IATP in Georgia since 2009.

IATP is serving the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Georgia as well. Since the Russo-Georgian war of August 2008, IATP has played a dynamic and highly-responsive role in meeting the evolving needs of Georgians affected by the crisis. IATP continues to offer free ICT services to IDPs and equip them with the ICT skills needed to grow roots in their new environments.

28-year-old Marika Durglishvili was displaced from the ethnic Georgian village of Avnevi in South Ossetia. The war forced Durglishvili from her home to the town of Khashuri, disrupting her work as a social worker and life as she knew it.

Durglishvili found the local IATP center in Khashuri and signed up for courses in computing and internet basics and Microsoft Office suite programs to make her more competitive in the workplace. After a month of training, Khashuri IATP administrator Natia Gogaladze informed Durglishvili of a vacancy at a local business. After applying and receiving the job offer, a thrilled Durglishvili contacted Gogaladze to express her appreciation, “I wouldn’t have landed this job if it weren’t for the ICT skills I learned through the IATP training and for your tip about the vacancy. This program is so important for all IDPs struggling to find a new life.” IATP in Georgia has trained approximately 300 IDPs since the August 2008 conflict.

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