Hire Our Graduates
We make it easy to hire non-traditional talent and help to diversify your workforce. Our curriculum has been designed and developed in partnership with industry experts, ensuring junior talent is best placed to hit the ground running.
How Our Graduates Compare
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Full DevOps Cyle | |
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Engineering Bachelors Degree | |
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React Front End Focus | |
Agile Practices | |
Full DevOps Cyle | |
Typescript | |
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Industry Work Experience | |
Life Skills | |
Computer Science Bachelors Degree | |
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React Front End Focus | |
Agile Practices | |
Full DevOps Cyle | |
Typescript | |
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What Our Graduates Offer
Technology
- Presentation Skills: HTML/CSS
- Programming: JavaScript
- Front End Framework: React
- Typescript
- Web Services: NodeJS Express
- Testing and coverage
- Source control: Git
- Command line bash style knowledge
Agile Practices
- Daily stand-up meetings for communication and team culture
- Ticket based work management via GitHub
- Code Reviews
- Tests and software delivery akin to a continuous integration (CI) practice
- Sprint goals and retrospectives
Problem-Solving Mindset
- Problem Solving via understanding and communication with others
- Components and single purpose design
- Code reuse and readability
- Regular testing to reflect quality code
Self-Management & Communication Skills
- Mindful self-awareness - lessen anxiety, frustration and improve focus
- Self-driven learning via questions and personal growth targets
- Explain technical concepts clearly
- Explain the status of the work, nature of obstacles and delivery time estimates
Benefits Of Hiring A Justice-impacted Individual
Diversify your workforce
Research shows a diverse workforce increases productivity. Take2 graduates bring much needed cultural and life experience diversity to the tech industry.
Hire loyal staff
Research shows that employees with a criminal record remain at a company longer. In one of the most competitive industries for talent, you want to hire and invest in people that will stay the journey with your company.
Great work ethic
Research shows people with a criminal record are promoted faster than those without.
Reinvest in your community
Any company can have a social impact through a fair-chance hiring policy. Create thriving whānau’s through launching the career of a Take2 graduate. They have served their time. Don’t serve them a second sentence by excluding them from the workforce.
Employment Partners
A selection of leading companies that trust us.
Will you join them?
There’s a reason we call you “employment partners”. We’ll work closely with you right from the outset to ensure both you and the graduate have a successful experience.
Once we agree to the partnership, you’ll receive a Take2 Apprenticeship Guide that takes you through key stages of the first six months of the employment. It outlines actions to take and provides valuable insights on how your new employee will be feeling and their needs. It also explains how Take2 fits into the equation and can support along the way.
The value you gain from hiring one of our graduates is just as
important as what they gain from working with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
We put our graduates through a rigorous testing process to ensure they are suitable to enter a workplace and undertake employment.
The programme is open to all participants who meet the appropriate prison security clearances, except those individuals who have been convicted of cybercrimes or sex offences.
If we want people to reintegrate into society, then we need to allow them the opportunity to do so. We need to move away from this notion of “once a criminal, always a criminal”. Common-sense will be applied to where Take2 graduates will be referred to work i.e. those who have been convicted of fraud will not be referred to a bank.
For companies and clients that remain concerned about this issue, there are different software development positions where an employee will not have or need access to software that has the personal details of customers.