Continuous learning and upskilling
The Red Hat® Ascend Skills Network provides Red Hat Partners with a continuous learning and enablement program that enables partners to become skilled practitioners of Red Hat technologies. Red Hat offers online, self paced courses focused on creating role based practitioners. This gives partner organizations the ability to attract and train talent at scale.
Closing the gap
Red Hat offers online, self-paced courses focused on successful customer implementations and use cases. For more than a decade, Red Hat has enabled partner organizations through the Red Hat Partner Training Portal, which empowers partners and supplies them with reliable guidance to support sales, improve customer service, and deliver Red Hat solutions. The Ascend Skills Network is the latest enablement offering to partner organizations.
62%
of open source professionals desired more training opportunities
52%
wanted employers to cover the cost of certifications
73%
of those same professionals believe it would be easy for them to find a new position
How Ascend is different
The Ascend journey begins with a skills gap assessment that allows you to develop a custom learning path designed to support your business objectives. The Red Hat Ascend Skills Network assembles curated resources, experts, and curriculum to onboard and train talent at scale. Red Hat also equips your team with specific tools and technology to deliver solutions for the industry verticals that your organization serves.
Partners vs Partner practitioner
Partners
• Skill requirements assessment
• Playbooks finalized
• Internal campaign launched
• Organization hosts program
• Governance is established
Partner practitioner
• Practitioner registers
• Accesses resources
• Guided journey begins
• Downloads playbooks
• Credly digital badge awarded
Inside the playbook
Ascend cloud-native path example
Ascend learning path benefits
Training
Deep links to the self-paced learning path on the Red Hat Partner Training Portal. Access to a variety of resources such as podcasts, channels and videos.
Enablement
Access to the development tooling and content via webinars to keep the learner continuously updated with the latest tools and products. These webinars also provide an option to join the OpenShift Commons community.
Experience
Access to simulated scenarios (virtual sandboxes) hosted on Red Hat Developer portal and provides options for peer learning via Red Hat Ascend meetups and OpenShift Commons special interest groups. The objective is to reinforce learning and project readiness by spaced repetition.
Additional Resources
Infographic
Building expertise
Join a community of Red Hat® technology specialists and build the expertise to drive successful open source solutions for your customers.
Playbook
The Ascend Ansible journey
This specific journey map is focused on developing the learner's skills in relation to Red Hat Ansible.
E-Book
Closing the skills gap
Enable, engage, and equip your team with the skills they need to succeed.
Empower your talent with new skills through experiential learning
Organizations that provide open source professionals with experiential training opportunities will be better prepared to innovate, adapt, and deliver.
