Our university held the “AWS Univ Export with Sookmyung” on campus along with the global cloud computing company, Amazon Web Services (hereinafter “AWS”) on May 10.

This expo, which was held in collaboration between the two institutions, was prepared to raise the level of understanding on the overall AWS and cloud industry, as well as providing diverse work experiences and employment opportunities for our university students and other college students.

Thanks to the high interest of students and job applicants in the cloud computing industry, which is evaluated as a futuristic industry expected to create high values, the event recorded more than 800 pre-registrations alone.

The expo consisted of the morning and afternoon sessions. A special lecture on the innovative practices of Amazon and AWS was held in the morning, and during the afternoon session, advices on competencies required in the IT field and vivid hands-on experiences were shared through a job talk show where actual hands-on workers in diverse areas of AWS spoke.

In particular, employment consulting booths per company conducted onsite employment consulting and job application guidance, which included job consulting and employment for AWS partner companies and startups, as well as providing guidance to 2019 internship for AWS. Our university’s Career Development Center and LinkedIn also provided support on cover letter editing and consulting.

Our university and AWS, which have continued close collaboration on cloud education and fostering of IT human resources, plan to boost the partnership to the next level through this event. Our university subscribed to the AWS Educate program that has been devised to raise cloud computing-related competencies for students and teaching staff in 2017. Starting from 2019, our university is supporting access to diverse cloud contents free of charge and direct experience of AWS services for our students by implementing an AWS cloud-based learning management system (LMS) for the first time among Korean universities. In addition, we are preparing the reorganization of educational curricula to enable competency building in cloud services and the overall IT industry fields for our students.

The CEO of AWS Korea Public Sector Jeong-won Yoon explained, “Through the educational materials and tools provided by the global program AWS Educate, the students and teaching staff of Sookmyung Women＇s University are now able to access the latest innovative cloud technologies of AWS. Based on this, the educators and students can understand and follow the advancement of technology and requirements of the industry,” and “This collaboration with Sookmyung Women＇s University is a part of the AWS Educate program. We expect this event to provide new opportunities to companies seeking cloud-related human resources and all students who are searching for cloud-related jobs. We will continue such efforts in the future and hope more and more companies will participate in this program.”

President Jungai Kang announced, “This event is grounded on our steady partnership with AWS. In particular, this event that is being held as a part of the Ministry of Education’s university innovation project is very meaningful because it supports the future planning of young people based on industry-academic cooperation,” and “We will continue to expand our collaboration with AWS to increase the utilization of cloud-based educational environment and strengthen the competitive power of our school and students.”