To address the growing demand and supply gap in the digital skills market, P@SHA is enabling and empowering the industry with subsidies training opportunities. P@SHA is aware about the shortage of skilled workforce experience by the industry. In its efforts to expand the growth, P@SHA Skill Development and Training Committee has partnered with shortlisted training providing companies to offer training tracks on priority skill areas. These trainings are offered to P@SHA member companies and their employees on discounted rates. 

To promote the IT sector in Pakistan, the P@SHA Skill Development and Training Committee is delighted to announce the inauguration of the P@SHA Skill Development  Program. Similar to the recent training initiatives by the SD&T Committee, this program intends to provide technical training and certification to its member companies at highly subsidized rates, with the understanding that this program will be contributing towards the professional development and networking-mission of the Association as a whole.

Before launching this program, the SD&T committee conducted a survey within the IT industry to analyze the IT industry’s training requirements. The results provided an insight related to the prevailing technical expertise which is required by the IT sector of Pakistan. The top technologies which were identified by the IT companies to get their resources trained within the next one year are below:

• Artificial Intelligence and IoT
• Cloud Technologies (AWS and Azure)
• Quality Assurance and Automation
• MEAN Stack/MERN Stack
• Mobile App Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Big Data and Blockchain

For the P@SHA Skill Development Program,  we have partnered with training organizations that are well-versed and have a proven track record.  P@SHA is delighted to share the list of onboarding training bodies for the first-ever batch of its member companies. We are so proud and honored to have these training bodies onboarded with us (in alphabetical order):

• 10Pearls University 
• Agile Beams
• Agile USA
• Corvit
• DICE Analytics
• Genese Solution
• NEXTBRIDGE INSTITUTE
• Pakistan Software Testing Board (PSTB)
• Prudential Solutions 
• Sherdil IT Academy

P@SHA secretariat will be sharing the list of courses with the discount offers regarding this program over time with member companies through its official  Social Media platforms, WhatsApp Group Announcements and via email. 

About SD&T Committee: 

P@SHA’s Skill Development and Training committee is headed by the Vice-Chairperson of P@SHA, Ms. Shamim Rajani and other members, including Salman Dar – CEO Itroos, Bilal Mahmood – CEO Contour Software, Ali Ihsan – CEO Frag Games and Barkan Saeed – CEO Vizteck Solutions.