This is a training and corporate social responsibility process, which seeks to offer opportunities to students in the last grade of public schools in Medellin studying technical high school programs, related to software development.
Process stages
1. Education Cycle
The project’s training cycle lasts six months. During this time, theoretical/practical training sessions are given focused on the software development life cycle and are dictated by the company’s professionals.
2. Recruitment
This process has different cut-offs to select the most outstanding students and thus obtain a final group of ten people.
3. Results
The five students with the best results and potential are chosen, taking into account different aspects, such as: attitude, attendance, responsibility, and grades.
4. Scholarship
These five students are awarded a scholarship for technological studies and are also admitted to Quipux during the first year as SENA apprentices to carry out their academic practices and participate in Quipux’s projects.
5. Linkage
After one year of internship, an evaluation of performance results and possible employment at Quipux is carried out.
2023 Results
221
Students
applied
103
Students
took the tests
69
Students passed
the tests and course
5
Were linked
to Quipux
This is an alliance between Quipux, Alcaldía de El Santuario, Fundación Manuel Tiberio Salazar, and Institución Educativa Presbítero Luis Rodolfo Gómez; which arises to provide a formative process and corporate social responsibility to young people who live in El Santuario and are interested in a technique in software development and programming.
With this initiative of social work and impact, Quipux seeks to give low-income young people the opportunity to access a formal education in which they can take advantage of their potential and eventually join the company.
Process stages
1. Education
Education is carried out for a year. The selected students enter Quipux as apprentices of El SENA to carry out their academic practices and to be participants in Quipux’s projects.
2. Recruitment
At the end of the internship year, an evaluation of performance results is carried out, and the students are selected for employment in the company as professionals.
2023 Results
25
Students
applied
19
Students
took the tests
12
Students passed
the tests and course
5
Were linked
to Quipux
This project promotes inclusive hiring in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, personnel with disabilities, and also has a recruitment and development process that seeks inclusion, equity and equality for women.
Likewise, we have a policy that seeks competitiveness and salary equity according to the position, role and responsibilities assigned.
Results
Diversity by Regions
Quipux employees live in more than 50 locations in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Ivory Coast.
Professionals with Special Needs
6 employees.
Gender Equity
Our team is made up of…
47,3% women.
52,7% men.
Generations
Millennials: 45,78%
Centennials: 41,65%
Generation X: 11, 7%
Baby Boomers: 1,50%
Ethnicity
44 employees belong to an ethnic group.
Understanding that mental health and the prevention of sedentary lifestyles are important issues to address, we partnered with Comfama to create a program focused on positively impacting the well-being of our employees, in which we offer them the opportunity to participate in different experiences, tailored to their hobbies and particular interests.
With this initiative we want to...
To reduce employee stress – To promote social interaction and strengthen bonds between people from different teams in the company – To allow people to understand wellbeing in an integrated manner and expand their capacity to self-manage it.