The case in summary: – The 20-year-old gamer Slassy is one of 12 people who will participate in Jobbklar AS in Arendal’s initiative “game-based learning”. – Jobbklar AS helps people further in life and career, and now a new group of gamers will get the chance .- Many gamers have valuable knowledge that society needs, including programming and design.- Encryptia, which supplies learning and coping systems, works with youth, young adults and technology.- In the past, many who are outside the working world have received training in more traditional professions, now it is the IT industry’s turn. – The young gamers are called “digital talents”, and the initiative is aimed at those who are in danger of ending up outside the workforce. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – I haven’t quite figured out what I want to do, and have been very uncertain about what I want to do in the future. I think this is going to be very good, says the gamer Slassy. Slassy is one of 12 people who will take part in “game-based learning” under the auspices of the employment and inclusion company Jobbklar in Arendal. He wants news to use the online name Slassy because he wants to be anonymous. Valuable knowledge Jobbklar in Arendal helps people move on in life and career, and now so-called full-time gamers will get help to get into working life. – Many of these people have dropped out of the school system. Some may have had an illness that prevented them from following a normal course of study, says Ole Åkre, who is head of innovation at Encryptia. – Gamers need to find a direction to move forward, says Ole Åkre, innovation manager at Encryptia. Photo: Siv Kristin Sællmann / news Encryptia supplies learning and coping systems. The offer is aimed at those who are at risk of ending up outside of working life. In the “game-based learning” program, they can take the education and hand in their assignments online. – These people have a background that we need in professional life. They have programmed a little and they have designed a little. They just need to mobilize and find a direction to move forward, says Åkre. – Extremely good Slassy has been very uncertain about his career path for a long time. – I have tried community college and shop work, but it wasn’t for me. I was very unsure of what I wanted to do with my future, says the 20-year-old. Now he is looking forward to starting the new program. – I love data and being able to work from my own PC. So I think this will be extremely good. I’m really looking forward to it, he says. He says that it is better for him to work from home, and not have to leave his room. – Will you be able to move out of the room, if a job requires it? – Yes, I will be able to do that eventually, he says. 12 people are in the program and will receive the work training they need to get a job. Photo: Per-Kåre Sandbakk / news Digital talents In the past, many people outside the working world received training in the more traditional professions. Now it is the IT industry’s turn. – We have chosen to call them digital talents. We see that these are people who have not been given the chance they should have been given, says Maja Jørgensen in Jobbklar AS. Jobbklar will help you complete your education or find work. Arendal municipality and the county council own Jobbklar. Maja Jørgensen is general manager at Jobbklar AS in Arendal. She sees great potential in the gamers. Photo: Siv-Kristin Sællmann / news – We have had several interviews already and there are many good people. Then we have supervisors who can help the participants find the right company and make the path to a job shorter, says Jørgensen. The program works to teach the students the professional in the shortest possible time, so that they have the confidence to study or work elsewhere after the program is finished. – Encryptia teaches them the subjects, and Jobbklar AS has those who motivate and create self-confidence. This will create results in Agder, I am convinced of that, says Åkre.
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