Try Before You Hire
CTI provides structured, programmatic support for our partners to work with students on open source projects to develop their skills-based hiring approach.
Engage through
Talent Aquisition
Get access to intern and new grad talent from over 120 institutions across CA. Source with confidence and meet your diversity goals in a seamless way through clearly articulated evidence for their preparation and readiness.
Mentorship
Build lasting relationship with your future hire, ensure readiness before hiring, reduce on boarding time while getting access to impactful professional development opportunities for yourself and your team.
Financial Support To Students
CTI is continuously investigating ways to build realistic pathways of upward mobility for students from low-income backgrounds. A critical component of all of our solutions involve provide financial support/incentive to these students to reduce the number of hours they need to work at job to make ends meet. These financial support is possible only through the generous support of individuals and organizations to invest in these students’ future. We accept donations of all size:
- $2000 will support a student for a semester
- $12000 will support a student for the first two years of college which are the years that matter to retaining these students in the computing talent pipeline
- $360000 will support a cohort of 30 students through the first two years of their college experience
- Any multiple of 1, 2, 3 will help us.
CTI Serves 100s of students from across the State of CA.
Of those:
%
are from community colleges
%
identify as first-generation college students
%
are underrepresented in tech industry (people of color or women)
I am an Individual
Why should I partner with CTI?
There are many different entities that an individual who cares about broadening the computing talent pipeline can partner with. CTI would be a good place for you if you care about:
- Believe potential talent is spread across many non-selective institutions and not concentrated only in a few elite institutions.
- Engaging students in the early stages of their computer science college journey
- Developing systemic solutions that are aligned with community colleges and non-selective (>60% acceptance rate) universities where a significant majority of America’s students start their college career
- Involving students in open source software development early and see that as a sustainable and scalable solution
What can I do?
- Mentor a small group of students through their resume preparation, practicing mock interviews and support them through their internship search
- Mentor one or more open source project experiences.
- Micro-Internships: 4-week experience during the semester for teams of 3, with each student spending about 10 hours per week.
- Summer Open Source Experience: 8-week experience during the summer for teams of 3, with each student spending 20–40 hours per week.
- Provide financial assistance for students in the CTI Learning Communities Programs $12000 investment has an expected impact of $112,000 to $232,000 on the earning potential for these low income students over the next 10 years
- $2000 per student, for one semester
- $12000 per student, for 2-years
- Any multiple of these amounts
I represent a Tech Organization
Why should I partner with CTI?
- Moving from a zero-sum talent acquisition strategy to a non-zero sum talent development strategy
- Moving to a skills-based hiring model based on open source software dev experience
- Having access to a low-cost, high quality internship program to develop your talent pipeline
- Integrating professional development opportunity for your employees in your volunteer programs
- Making a difference in the lives of low-income, first-generation, underrepresented minority students
- Building lasting connection with this future talent to increase retention with your org
What can the organization do?
There are multiple ways by which a tech organization can partner with CTI:
- Consider CTI’s students for internships and new-grad positions and provide feedback to CTI on how the next group of students could be improved
- Partner to offer CTI Apprenticeship experience for students
- Provide financial assistance for students in the CTI Learning Communities Programs – $12000 investment in one student has an expected impact of $112,000 to $232,000 on the earning potential for these low income students over the next 10 years
- $2000 per student, for one semester
- $12000 per student, for 2-years
- Any multiple of these amounts