One key player for any successful business lies in its ability to retain existing customers. Most companies especially start-ups that don’t have an existing customer database focus on attracting new customers.
Once every decade or so, something new comes along to transform the marketing industry. If you draw a through-line from radio and television to the advent of the internet and, most recently, digital channels like search, social and mobile, you’d find one common principle: that early adopters’ advantage pays off handsomely for the businesses who master new, paradigm-shaking channels early enough.
After earning your Bachelor’s degree, you might feel exhausted. Like you need a ‘well-earned’ rest to reflect on your future. Or you might be eager to leave your studies behind, start a career and make a name for yourself. Or you might feel like you need to learn more and specialize by taking a Master’s degree.
The term employability has become a common name amongst educators, researchers, and employers. It refers to the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to look for work and continue successfully in a career. Employability has been a challenge for graduates of Nigerian higher education institutions (HEIs) due to their failure to meet the current labor market expectations.
Technology is a crucial component of our daily lives and has provided us with so much more of the luxurious lifestyle that today we all enjoy. But do you know who works endlessly hard to deliver us these technological services? They are the unknown heroes called software developers. They operate computer programs and make your electronic devices function accordingly. Some develop applications for computers, tabloids, cellphones, while others develop the underlying systems that help run the devices or control networks.
The earliest use of electronic digital computers in Nigeria was in 1963 when the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) set up the African Education Centre at the University of Ibadan (UI Computing Center). In connection with the analysis of the national census of 1962/1963. Between 1963 and 1973, Nigeria had about 20-25 computers, and six were associated with multinational companies. There were about seventy computer installations in Nigeria by 1977. Software developer hiring in Nigeria could thrive only because of these foundational steps in the Nigerian tech space. In 1977, only three of these multinational computer vendors were in Nigeria. These were IBM, NCR, and JCL, and they all mostly dealt with mainframes and minicomputers. To ensure a more indigenous integration of Nigerians in the budding computer business, the government established the indigenization decree.
Since 1948 when software development made its debut in society till date, there have been several changes and upgrades to the actual processes involved in software development. For the last 50-plus years, software development has played a key role in shaping the world’s technological advancements. Recent trends indicate that it will play an even more vital role in the nearest future.
IT training solutions also empower communities and economies at large.