Future Ready with IBM Skills Build: A Collaboration Empowering the Next Generation

As the working world changes around us, young people are often unsure what the jobs of the future will be and what skills will be essential for their success.

Whether it's due to advances in technology, the streamlining of processes, or evolving societal needs, our young people need support in developing a wide range of skills.

To promote future-ready skill-building among young people, Crazy Ideas College has partnered with IBM and their SkillsBuild program.

This partnership gives students across Australia the opportunity to attend programs that help them identify the future contributions they want to make to the world around them.  

IBM SkillsBuild is a free and easy-to-use online learning platform that provides in-demand tech and professional skills to teachers and students at the high school and college levels.

Supported by IBM, the CIC team delivered its Lead4Impact and Future Ready programs to more than 3,000 students across Australia in 2022.  

The team also supported schools in finding creative and useful ways to enable students to use the resources on SkillsBuild to develop key skills and earn credentials.

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The Future Ready program is different to others I have done before in that CIC empowers us and confirms we are capable and we have the skills, we just need to know how to talk about them

Rosie, Year 9