Digital Dictionary

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Training

Samia Ghozlane

Grande École du Numérique, Paris, France

The emergence of bootcamps

In 2020, digital training in the broadest sense, from the development of basic skills to the acquisition of advanced technical expertise, was considered both a crucial economic issue for competitiveness, sustainability and company development, and a societal issue for the inclusion of all citizens in a hyper-connected world.

Over the past 10 years, the digitalization of the economy has imposed a profound and sudden transformation in companies, whatever their sector of activity, with new processes of design, development and product marketing or service offers. Engineering schools and universities, which provide talented and sought-after profiles, have no longer been able to fully satisfy recruitment needs. Their selective, long and sometimes costly curricula make them inherently inflexible, lacking in reactivity and thereby unable to adapt quickly and permanently to the evolving demand for digital skills. For example, the lifespan of a computer language, which was 25 years in the 1990s, has now been reduced to a few years. All companies and organizations are undergoing their digital transformation and are looking for new digital talent to spearhead their competitiveness. Thus, in 2018, the digital sector was the major recruiter in France. With more than 60,000 recruitments, it represented one-third of all job creations in France (Talents du numérique 2019).

It is in this context of ...