A coding school with an employer guarantee, paid for by the employer at the end

A first step

Visit the hiring managers of five software firms and ask what a junior developer must be able to do on day one, and what they spend hiring one now. Ask whether they would pay a placement fee at the end for a graduate who met that standard. Signed letters saying yes, with the fee written in, are the proof, and the day-one list becomes the syllabus.

Who pays first

A software firm hiring junior developers, which pays a placement fee because it saves the cost and risk of hiring untrained graduates.

What leaves today

School leavers without a university place drift into low-paid work, when a few months of targeted training would make them employable.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. ThreeWhat We Have Already Built
  The stock exchange in Malabe

More from cluster 15

• 296Remote-work hubs in Kandy, Galle and Jaffna with fibre, power and a lawyer who knows the tax
• 297A Sri Lankan software product, not a services firm: one tool, sold by subscription to the world
• 298Accounting and bookkeeping outsourcing for small British and Australian firms, in their time zones
• 299Legal paperwork done for foreign law firms, since the common law is the same and the lawyers are here
• 300Typing up doctors' notes and reading scans for foreign hospitals, overnight, to their standard
• 301Architecture and engineering drafting services for firms in the Gulf and Europe

All 25 ideas in this cluster