Wising Up in WordPress: GoDaddy Employees Teach IT Bootcamp in Serbia

Originally published on GoDaddy Life

In coordination with the Divac Foundation and IT Bootcamp school, GoDaddy employees help lead WordPress courses in Serbia. Candidates come from various backgrounds, including law, economy, and social sciences, who are interested in learning more about IT and WordPress. The main goal of the course is to educate students to maintain and troubleshoot WordPress issues and create functional WordPress websites, ultimately to obtain a position at a tech company, such as GoDaddy. Our organization finds it crucial to build up the community, by providing support through opportunities, such as this course. We have hired on six students that now work as Care Support Guides II and two students that work in WordPress Premium Support as Technical Website Builders.

Hear more from GoDaddy Employees/Course Leaders and Students, turned GoDaddy Employees.

You are a course leader for the IT Bootcamp. What has this experience been like for you?

Miomir Vuletaš - The WordPress course is a unique experience for all of us. Finding the right way to explore WordPress, servers, DNS, email, and much more with students can be a real challenge but so rewarding.
There is nothing in this world that compares to the joy of students after finding a career-changing job.

Aleksandar Miljkovic - It's an indescribable feeling when you know you're helping someone move one step closer to their goal, especially when you know the amount of courage that is necessary to change your entire profession! As much as we tried to motivate the attendees, I feel like I was the one that walked away with more motivation than ever before. Seeing the sheer dedication and grit these amazing people have is inspirational.

What insights are you hopeful for students walk away with, after taking the course?

Pavle Marjanovic - During the course, our ultimate goal is to teach students how to overcome their fears and gain confidence in whatever they do. If they can incorporate that confidence and knowledge, I believe that there is nothing that can stop them from achieving their goals!

Miomir Vuletaš - We hope that our course provides enough information to all students, and tickles their imagination so that with will and persistence, they can continue to learn and progress.

Aleksandar Miljkovic - I hope their curiosity is sparked, and that the fear of learning something new is erased. The old adage "you can do anything you put your mind to" might sound corny but I think that they have proved it to be true once more.