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Reskilling for jobs has changed dramatically.
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When Rider Rodriguez founded Code Louisville 13 years ago, he imagined the tech skills program would eventually go away -- but not like this.
Funded in part by the Louisville Metro Government and grants, Code Louisville aimed to train Louisvillians for tech jobs by offering a free, flexible, six-month education in areas like web development, software development, and UX design. The hope was that the expansion of local tech talent would become an economic boon and an important investment for the Kentuckiana area.
"We had an under-representation, relatively speaking, for those good-paying [tech] jobs," Rodriguez told ZDNET, explaining that the thinking was, "Why not us? Let's see what we can do for people."
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