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Web-Hosting Vendor Pays Students to Train at Boot Camp

Rackspace Technical Boot Camp is designed to help the company fill a skills gap for staff with Web services skills. Applicants will be paid $12 per hour to attend the 10-week program, and the best will get jobs at Rackspace.

It’s not uncommon for companies to pay for training of their employees. However, that’s usually after the workers have been hired.

But next month, managed-hosting services firm Rackspace will launch a new 10-week program that pays individuals to attend intensive boot camp training, even though there’s no guarantee of them ever working for Rackspace. The new Rackspace Technical Boot Camp kicks off on Sept. 18 with a class of 30 "carefully screened" individuals who will be taught technology and troubleshooting skills needed to support the vendor’s customers, says Staci Marshall, Rackspace training manager..

It’s a little difficult to find technology staff in San Antonio for the web-services niche that Rackspace is in, says Marshall. "We’d like to do these boot camps a couple times a year," she says.

Rackspace is paying the students $12 hour to attend the boot camp. Those who successfully complete the program could later apply for jobs as entry level support technicians with the company. Starting pay for those full-time positions is about $30,000 a year, says Henry Sauer, dean of Rackspace University, the company’s training organization.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek

Full Story: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192500906

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