You're hired! How three young women have entered the AI workforce via Salesforce's apprenticeship scheme

As part of its ongoing multi-billion dollar investment in the UK, Salesforce has placed a great emphasis on the importance of training and growing the national skills base.

To that end, the firm recently introduced its Future Trailblazers initiative, a scheme that sees Salesforce staffers and volunteers go out into the community to encourage students entering the workforce, people returning from career breaks, and under-represented groups in the tech sector, to get themselves armed with AI skills.

Future Trailblazers was born out of the UK Government's AI Boost Skills Boost initiative, explains Salesforce’s Julie Palmer:

What we've done is we've created a virtual team that has created a load of content for primary and secondary school age children, and our plan is to reach 30,000 students across 1,000 schools over the next 12 months or so, saying, ‘Look, we've got some content that we'd like to deliver that's interactive,...

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