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Young Professionals Group (YPG)
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the Young Professionals Group (YPG) website. With nearly 24,000 members, we are the largest membership group within BCS and are dedicated to supporting and representing those in the foundation years of their career. We are currently in the process of updating our web pages, if you are unable to find the information you are looking for, drop us an email and we’ll do our best to answer your question.
Run almost entirely by volunteers, we are an energetic group who work collectively on a variety of initiatives throughout the UK, such as networking and soft skills events - all of which aim to benefit our members and the wider IT profession.
We are always looking for driven, enthusiastic people to join our volunteer network, if you like to learn more about us with the view to getting involved, get in touch and we’d be delighted to send you some information.
Ben Pygall, YPG Chairman
Professional Development Accreditation
BCS Professional Development Accreditation recognises those organisations that are committed to supporting the professional development of their IT professionals and improving employee motivation and retention.
A selection of our accredited organisations can be found here.
Latest YPG article
‘Hybrid’ jobs in the IT sector can be defined as those that combine high level technical skills and so-called ‘soft’ skills in roughly equal proportions. This piece makes the claim that these are key jobs for organisations in their complex translating and interpreting between different groups and audiences, typically clients and technical colleagues.
Careers feature
Following the launch of the low cost Raspberry Pi, there has been significant discussion on how schools are failing students in provision of IT education.
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Student Focus
On 23 June 2011 the University of Dundee held its annual MBCS graduation scheme presentation as part of the main Graduation Day celebrations. This year 26 Computer Science graduates received their BSc and in addition Professional Membership of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.