Building a Vibrant Talent Ecosystem to Empower Industries

Building Alliances and Empower Industries

To quickly develop ICT talent for new domains, alliances, and ecosystems should be established. Huawei shares technologies and experience and exchanges capabilities with our partners and customers. We collaborate with universities, international education organizations, governments, industry associations, as well as our partners and customers, working together to build an enablement platform for sustainable talent development.

Colleges and universities are the source of talent development and supply. The cooperation between universities and enterprises ensures the continuous inflow of advanced technologies and industrial practices into universities.

In 2013, Huawei launched the Huawei ICT Academy project — a university-enterprise collaboration program. The project shares the latest technologies, course systems, and engineering practices to help universities build a stronger faculty. It aims to share knowledge on cutting-edge technologies in colleges and universities around the world and help them develop ICT talent by creating online learning and experiment platforms, carrying out innovation training camps, and holding teacher workshops. To date, Huawei has set up Huawei ICT Academies in more than 1800 colleges and universities around the world, while a total of 150,000 college students have passed various Huawei certifications.

In response to UNESCO's call to suspend classes without stopping learning, Huawei formulated its 'Learn ON' action plan to ensure the continuity and quality of learning during the pandemic. Huawei also participated in the coordinated industry-university talent development program launched by China's Ministry of Education. By November 2021, Huawei had invested in 480 projects related to the program.

Huawei also works with the ministries of labor and human resource departments in various countries, providing ICT training for their citizens and promoting local employment. Huawei was one of the first group of social training and assessment organizations that was registered at the Shenzhen Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Candidates who pass Huawei certification exams can receive corresponding Huawei certificates as well as vocational skill certificates, and can get subsidies to improve their vocational skills. Outside China, Huawei certifications have become nationally recognized enterprise certifications in Colombia, and Huawei expects to help Colombia to train 50,000 ICT professionals and experts in the next three years.

Huawei has also engaged in joint ICT talent development programs with governments around the world. For example, in 2019, Huawei and the Egyptian government launched a flagship talent capability development program — the ICT Talent Bank (ITB), to provide technical training for Egyptian students. Huawei also held talent selection conferences to promote ICT talent employment and support digital transformation in related industries. By May 2021, Huawei had set up 69 ICT academies worldwide, training 400 teachers and more than 10,000 students, among whom 4000 had passed Huawei certifications.

To support lifelong learning, Huawei works with its Authorized Learning Partners (HALPs) to provide training and certification services to the public, with the aim of training more people to become ICT professionals. By September 2021, Huawei had 110 HALPs worldwide.

Developing Talent Standards to Improve the Quantity and Quality of ICT Specialists

Based on the collaborative 'cloud-pipe-device' ICT architecture, Huawei has launched leading ICT talent development systems and certification standards —Huawei Career Certification and Huawei Professional Certification. Huawei Career Certification helps to improve trainees' skills and increase their job opportunities. Huawei Professional Certification is designed to improve the technical strengths, sales skills, and project management capabilities of partners based on their job positions.

Across the globe, Huawei certification is gaining recognition year by year, with the total number of Huawei certified individuals exceeding 540,000 by September 2021.

Huawei has incorporated certification training for on-the-job engineers into the courses of colleges and universities, building a talent development model that can be implemented in those education institutions. This model aims to bridge the gap between vocational education and enterprise development as well as the gap between curriculums and the knowledge and skills that enterprises need, so that enterprises can easily recruit high-quality graduates who are ready to solve real-world problems. This model also allows enterprises to slash the time spent on and the costs of new employee training.

Shenzhen Polytechnic, founded in 1993, is one of China's flagship vocational colleges, having been among the first of these institutions to open in the country. It has partnered with Huawei for over a decade. After establishing a Huawei ICT Academy, the two parties have explored a new model of college-enterprise collaboration that complements each other's strengths for coordinated development, which improves industry-education integration. One of the outcomes of this partnership is the program of the Development and Practice of Integrating Certificate Acquisition in College Courses for ICT Talent, which won the National Teaching Achievement Special Award in 2018.

Huawei also cooperates with educational authorities to participate in the reform of teaching systems. In China, Huawei participated in the pilot project of '1 + X' certificates for vocational education, which encourages students to gain multiple vocational certificates while pursuing an academic qualification. Four Huawei certification systems, including network system construction and Operations and Maintenance (O&M), and intelligent computing platform application development, were approved to be part of this pilot project. The '1 + X' textbook jointly compiled by Huawei experts and university teachers has been included in the list of national textbooks for vocational education during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period by China's Ministry of Education. Since its release more than a year ago, over 100,000 copies of the textbook have been issued.

Improving Skills to Help Enterprises Go Digital

Talent is fundamental to enterprise development, so Huawei has been collaborating with enterprises to develop digital talent, to help them go digital and intelligent, and succeed in the digital world.

Huawei has accumulated vast experience in its own digital transformation and incorporated that experience into its talent development solution. Huawei's talent development solution focuses on technical enablement, business enablement, and management enablement. Technical enablement is focused on network operations, O&M, and emerging technologies to develop ICT talent. Business enablement is focused on applying ICT in industries and developing 'π-type' business talent — those who are familiar with both ICT and industry knowledge. Management enablement is for mid- and high-level business managers, providing guidance on how to tackle the challenges of digital transformation from the perspectives of business insight, strategic execution, and organizational collaboration.

Huawei has also made significant achievements in developing ICT talent for industry verticals.

In the financial service industry, Huawei assisted the Credit Card Center of China CITIC Bank in enabling its key staff. The enablement helped the bank staff build a closed-loop mindset that consists of setting goals, identifying knowledge and skills gaps, devising key measures, and ensuring effective execution through practical exercise, assisting the bank in executing digital transformation strategies.

Huawei has also worked with the Longgang District Government of Shenzhen, Wuhan Metro Group, FAW-Volkswagen, and Everbright Bank, helping them improve the digital skills and digital management capabilities of their employees. In the first three quarters of 2021, Huawei provided digital talent development services to many industry customers, training 140,000 employees.