AI Magazine December 2023 | Page 76

TELUS

“ The most important thing is ensuring that we have a team that ’ s fully motivated , engaged and confidently believes that it can contribute to our future ”

STEVEN BANICK VICE PRESIDENT , CIO STRATEGY & TRANSFORMATION , TELUS understanding of our business – a remarkably potent and powerful combination .”
One successful way of opening up new career paths for TELUS employees is through the revolutionary Digital Skills Fast Track program which empowers frontline agents with no prior coding experience , to step into digital careers as junior software developers through an intensive 12-week bootcamp . “ It ’ s hard not to get excited ,” Banick champions . Even though the programme is future-focused , TELUS is already seeing results . Digital Skills Fast Track is not only creating opportunities to add new skills and knowledge to the team , but more importantly , unlocking a whole new career trajectory for people that wasn ’ t available to them before .
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