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ALX Foundations
Thrive in the Workplace with Real-World
Job Readiness Skills

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Overview
● The ALX Professional Foundations course is a 2 month career accelerator program that focuses on building key 21st
century workplace skills to include critical thinking skills, project management, communication, time-management as
well as job-readiness skills.
● The course material is delivered online via the ALX LMS platform [Savanna] with some in-person support at our
City-Hubs for those who have the interest and the ability to visit in-person hubs in the 8 countries where we have
them.
● Each learner is required to complete approximately 30 hours of work every week.
● Learners will be required to complete weekly assignments [milestones] and weekly tests designed to develop and
practice key skills needed stand out against their peers in the workplace.
● Learners have the flexibility to decide how to schedule their time in order to complete their assignments. Milestones
are submitted in Savanna.

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 What makes Professional Foundations
unique?
Gives ALX learners an advantage over their peers
by offering an opportunity to build and practice
Employers are increasingly looking for critical, real world skills that are highly sought
candidates with a skill set that extends beyond after by employers.
technical knowledge. Foundations equips
learners with the real-world job readiness skills
needed to stay ahead of the curve for a career
in the rapidly changing tech industry.

ALX Secret
ALX learners will be well equipped for

Sauce
their job search. Foundations content
The skills acquired from Foundations include provides in-depth learning to
self awareness, and the ability to successfully find and create
communicate and collaborate effectively. ALX opportunities and ultimately stand
Learners will also learn to be analytical and out in the recruitment process.
creative thinkers.

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What makes Professional Foundations
unique?
Peer Support

● Learners are put into squads which are close-knit groups of peers going
through the course together.
● Members of each squad can freely communicate with each other on our
community platform, get accountability partners, and support each other
with peer coaching sessions and throughout the entire course.

ALX Team Support

● The ALX team provides support with onboarding onto all the platforms, and
is available to help learners with key milestone queries.

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What makes Professional Foundations
unique?
Real-World Focus and Applied Projects

● All learning content and milestones mirror real work projects and enable
learners to develop critical skills that are needed to excel in a competitive
workplace. The milestones provide learners with actual work samples that they
can include in their portfolio.

70-20-10
Model

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Professional Foundations 8 Meta-Skills

Tech Critical Thinking

Leverage tools to be Examine facts and
more efficient & consider solutions
effective

Leading Self Quantitative Reasoning

Develop self-awareness Evaluate data and
and personal values make decisions

Managing
Leading Others
Complex Tasks
Build strong
relationships with Plan and execute for
teammates complex projects

Communicating for
Entrepreneurial Thinking
Impact
Know the audience and See opportunities and
share with confidence seize them creatively

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Foundations equips learners with:
Critical Thinking Leading Self Leading Others Entrepreneurial
Thinking
✔ Authentic Inquiry ✔ Self Awareness ✔ Empathy ✔ Identifying Opportunities
✔ Research ✔ Self Regulation ✔ Feedback ✔ Creating Solutions
✔ Analysis ✔ Ethics & Integrity ✔ Relationship Building ✔ Continuous Iteration
✔ Argument & Judgement ✔ Self Improvement ✔ Influence ✔ Viability
✔ Synthesis ✔ Collaboration ✔ Sustainability

Communicating for Managing Complex Quantitative Tech Ecosystem

Impact Tasks Reasoning
✔ Audience Awareness ✔ Define the Problem ✔ Data Contextualization ✔ Working in Technical &
✔ Voice ✔ Structuring ✔ Uncertainty & Modelling Product Teams
✔ Writing Process ✔ Work Planning & in the Real World ✔ Tech Tools
✔ Organizing for Effective Resource Allocation ✔ Empirical Research ✔ Ethics in Tech
Communication ✔ Prioritization ✔ Data Based Decision ✔ Technical Literacy
✔ Storytelling & Making ✔ Tech Track Specialization
Presentation ✔ Quantitative Problem
Solving

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To complete Professional Foundations

● Submit all weekly milestones [assignments]. Learners are encouraged to leverage the rubrics provided in the
course content to submit high quality milestones.
● Submit all automated weekly tests with a score of 70% or higher.
● Complete any additional assessments and surveys required by ALX.

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Onboarding Week Schedule
Day Event Type Platform Description & Action Points Time

Live Event The Programme Leads will take you 1pm GMT/
(Programme Deep dive through the ALX Professional 2pm WAT/
YouTube Livestream
Session) Foundations Programme 3pm CAT/
and the Community Portal. 4 pm EAT
Monday
10/6/2024
Upon receiving the invitations with
Activate your account on
Community Portal & detailed instructions- engage with the
the Community Portal + Self-paced
Savanna content to gain an understanding of the
Savanna
Talent Portal & the course on Savanna.

The ALX team will address any 1pm GMT/

Tuesday
Live Office Hours challenges you may have encountered 2pm WAT/
11/6/2024 YouTube Livestream
(Platform Onboarding) while enrolling on the Portal and 3pm CAT/
Savanna. 4 pm EAT

Learners start/Continue
Wednesday Engage with Learning
Savanna engaging with the learning Self-paced
12/6/2024 Content
content on Savanna
Onboarding Week Schedule
Day Event Type Platform Description & Action Points Time

Learners start/Continue
Thursday Engage with Learning
Savanna engaging with the learning Self-paced
13/6/2024 Content
content on Savanna

The ALX team will address any

11 am GMT/
Friday Live Office Hours challenges you may have
12 pm WAT/
14/6/2024 (Milestone Submission YouTube Livestream encountered while enrolling onto
1 pm CAT/
Support) Savanna, as well as take you through
2 pm EAT
Milestone Submission

This is the official welcome

11 am GMT/
ceremony aimed at giving you
Saturday YouTube Livestream 12 pm WAT/
Karibu Ceremony a clear overview of ALX
15/6/2024 1 pm CAT/
Community and Program. It is
2 pm EAT
mandatory to attend.

Learners turn in Milestone 1 and Test 1

Monday Milestone + Test 1 Submission Before 11:59 pm
Savanna submissions on Savanna
17/6/2024 Deadline GMT
Thank You.

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