Amsterdam, 2 April 2008 --- mBalance, the renowned partner in the area of innovative and high-quality routing products for SMS services, is introducing the ‘Mobile Messaging Master Class’, a training initiative to give talented starters in the IT and telecom sectors the opportunity to develop a career in the highly promising world of Mobile Messaging.In the mBalance Master Class, talented young technical enthusiasts get to work in an inspiring environment among specialists. This allows the selected talent to acquire practical work experience and ultimately to call themselves a ‘Certified Mobile Messaging Engineer’.
‘The Master Class training is intensive’, says Marien van Ouwerkerk, director of mBalance. ‘Candidates must realise this. This is why we focus on the top ten percent of technical students, preferably in software engineering, electrical engineering or a comparable educational stream.’ While van Ouwerkerk is therefore primarily targeting the above-average student, the training is also open to ambitious young people who have had some years of work experience. ‘A solid technical background and 1 or 2 years of work in a high-tech function is also proof that someone can perform and could fit into the mBalance profile’, according to van Ouwerkerk.
During the training, the candidates end up working as a Test Engineer, Customer Support Engineer and Implementation Engineer. In the latter function, the Master Class student may be sent out to customers in different countries. During the training the student receives a salary and benefits from all of the other facilities which mBalance has to offer.
The first phase of the Master Class, which lasts a total of two years, comprises an intensive learning programme that will lead to the acquisition of certificates that are highly reputed in the market. After the first phase, the following nine months are dedicated to learning on the job: ‘working alongside’ experts and getting involved in various technical disciplines in a ‘job rotation cycle’. The last phaseis dedicated to completing a business-critical assignment in cooperation with the other trainees.
After completing the training, the student is able to function independently as a fully-fledged Mobile Messaging specialist, with expertise in the area of messaging techniques, networking (Cisco, SS.7, SIGTRAN, Messaging specific protocols), important operating systems (Linux, Unix, Solaris) and databases (Oracle, mySQL). Once the person is so far and has been awarded the title ‘Certified Mobile Messaging Engineer,’ mBalance will make the student a proposal for a position in the company with an attractive career path as a prospect.
More information is available from the mBalance Mobile Messaging Academy – Master Class, which can be reached at (020) 563 23 00, email:
masterclass@mbalance.com About mBalance
mBalance is a recognised expert in the mobile messaging sector. mBalance offers mobile network operators, system integrators and OEMs a wide variety of innovative, high-quality products and services. The company is a reliable partner for the telecommunication industry in the message security and routing area. mBalance supplies advanced solutions for GSM, UMTS, CDMA and TDMA networks. For more information, look up:
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