None of them was a web pro. These former mechanics, bakers, accountants or even pharmacists have become web developers in just six months. All of them have gone through the O’clock school.
Professional retraining is on the rise. You still have to find the right path and the right training. Web development jobs are among the most attractive. This multifaceted sector is not experiencing the crisis and has an average salary of 43,000 euros, according to APEC. Especially since motivation and experience generally take precedence over level of education.
With its intensive 6-month telepresential training, O’clock has the solution to allow the most motivated to quickly realize their dream, even if they are starting from scratch. The recipe: combine solid technical knowledge in the languages most sought after by recruiters with regular practice, and rely on experts to train the web developers of tomorrow.
Much more than an initiation: a solid and professional training
Six months to allow a neophyte in computer science to become a web developer and claim a job at the end of his training: this is the promise of O’clock. A bet that seems ambitious, even unrealistic, but that the 100% digital school has been taking up since 2017.
Marie, a former cashier now converted into a web developer is a good example: ” I thought you had to be a geek to be a developer. I realized that it was really stereotypes. »
To achieve such a feat, the establishment has developed an intensive program and relies on experts to deliver the courses. During one semester, students learn all the fundamental languages of web development, such as HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript. They also discover the Unix environment, as well as the most popular CMS, including WordPress.
Throughout this training, these future professionals move successively from theory to practice and are quickly confronted with the reality of the profession. This is also one of the main assets of O’clock. The school works on 3 different levels:
- knowledge, ie technical knowledge in programming and development;
- know-how and therefore putting it into practice through individual projects, but also in groups;
- life skills, to adopt the right attitudes on a daily basis, such as curiosity, patience, analytical skills, critical thinking, humility, or even empathy.
Concretely, the first half of the training in web development is centered on learning each of the languages provided for in the program. Once these basics have been acquired, it is time to specialize.
For a month, students deepen their skills either in Symfony, a flagship tool for developing in PHP, or in React, a JavaScript library used to design the interface and appearance of an application.
The last month is devoted to the development of a project from A to Z, to concretely rub shoulders with the reality of the profession.
Finally, take the certification exam to obtain the level 5 professional title (bac+2) approved by the State.
Daily life: telepresential courses and personalized support
Combining telepresence and high faculty availability: this is O’clock’s other strength. The school thus manages to maintain everyone’s motivation, despite the pace of their training in web development.
Studying from home is comfortable, but can also scare the biggest procrastinators. Unlike most distance learning, O’clock doesn’t leave its students on their own, watching videos and coding on their own. Quite the contrary.
Even if everyone works from home, the training ultimately has a very collaborative tinge, as Cyrielle, a former student of O’clock, points out: ” We move forward, we fall, we get up and above all, we help each other. We sometimes manage to make complicated algorithms, and there, it’s the rumba! “.
An opinion shared by Kevin: “ During the first lessons, the teachers are careful to answer all the questions and to do surveys to check that everyone is following well. We quickly forget that we are at home after all. We are active during the course, it’s interactive “.
Every day, students are invited to connect from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to the school’s online platform and, if they wish, to turn on their camera. Throughout the course, they can ask questions live via the chat provided for this purpose, as they would orally in a real classroom.
From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., it’s time to practice and carry out all the exercises requested. The establishment also provides a virtual office to access all the necessary tools via the cloud and without lag. No need to be equipped with an expensive PC configuration.
If necessary, at the end of the day, students can review all the lessons in replay and even contact the teachers concerned. A nice bonus, never to close the screen with a series of questions and pending misunderstandings.
O’clock has also thought of people with disabilities with a series of accessibility tools such as real-time subtitles.
And after graduation? O’clock stay by your side
It’s good to have solid knowledge, but you still have to know how to put it forward. Once the web developer training is completed, O’clock recommends that its students take the certification to obtain the state-licensed level 5 web developer professional designation.
More than 84% of people who have taken this course pass it. As not all training courses are eligible, it is a differentiating advantage to highlight on your CV. On this point, even after graduation, the O’clock teaching team remains available to provide advice on CV writing, creation of LinkedIn pages and to help former students prepare for their job interviews. Everything is done so that everyone can win a contract as a web developer.
O’clock is therefore not lacking in arguments. In addition, his course is eligible for multiple financial aid such as the CPF, the Agefiph, the AIF, or the CSP to name a few.