The Ironhack Blog

I’ve always been the type of person who has enjoyed figuring out how things work. This core intuition has drawn me towards many different pursuits in my life, among them are: cooking, bicycles, DIY home repair, foreign languages. The common thread running through all these pursuits has been curiosity. “How can I find out a little bit more about this?”; “why does this work this way?”; “is there a better way to do this?” have been uttered so many times in my head (and under my breath when the pressure is weighing in) that they’ve become my ethos for navigating the world. Without curiosity and the draw to learn more, I’d never find myself in all the pursuits that have become a part of my life and personality. Now, this curiosity has been laser-focused on developing a new skill set and way of thinking.

Working in Admissions at a leading global tech school means I often meet people who are ready to change their life and career by learning the most in-demand skills. But a question I hear most often is: Which bootcamp is right for me?

As we informed you a few days ago, we have migrated all ongoing and upcoming classes to a remote learning environment to ensure the safety of our students and staff and have developed the remote program with the following enhanced focus:

With tech skills becoming increasingly important, the number and variety of course providers to learn those skills is steadily growing and in this vast variety of programs it becomes harder and harder to choose the right format for you. With online courses from unknown providers to courses from prestigious institutions like Stanford or MIT flooding the internet, how shall I find the right course for myself? And why should I enroll in an in-class program instead of relying on the endless resources of the internet?

“53.6 percent, of bachelor’s degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed.” –Hope Yen, Associated Press. Those are a lot of college graduates scraping by in jobs they could have gotten without inheriting an average of $37,172 in student loan debt. 403.

The right to education, women’s right to vote, parity in the eye of the Law and reproductive rights are all fruit of a movement that today focuses primarily on the pay gap. Over the last few days, the business cluster ClosingGap, which analyses society’s most pressing gender gaps, has published a report that reveals that Spanish women’s salaries are 21.9% lower than those of their male colleagues, which translates into an annual difference of €5,784.