The final of the 2024 3rd Ruijie National College Student Information Technology Competition will be held in Fuzhou on December 28

The final and award ceremony of the 2024 3rd Ruijie National College Student Information Technology Competition (hereinafter referred to as the Ruijie Competition) will kick off in Fuzhou on December 28. Since the first Ruijie Competition was held, the event has attracted the active participation of many college students. In the 2024 3rd Ruijie Competition, more than 10,000 students from more than 470 colleges and universities across the country actively signed up for the competition. After fierce competition in the preliminary and semi-finals, 60 groups with a total of 180 students finally stood out and successfully advanced to the national finals. On December 28, they will start a peak showdown of wisdom and technology in Fuzhou, China, to compete for the final honor and rewards.

As a provider of ICT infrastructure and solutions for many years, Ruijie Networks is committed to contributing to the cultivation of ICT talents. Relying on Ruijie's self-developed products, research accumulation of cutting-edge network technologies and rich experience in information construction, combined with industry job requirements, Ruijie Networks has built a training and selection mechanism for digital talents that integrates "job courses, competitions, certificates and employment", promoting the systematization of talent training internally and building a talent growth environment for the ICT industry externally, paving the way for talent development.

The "job, course, competition, certificate, and employment" model consists of two ecosystems. The first is the Ruijie Network industry ecosystem. Ruijie Network products have a wide range of customers and partners. By leveraging the ecological advantages of Ruijie Network, it regularly conducts job demand surveys, connects with new industry concepts, new standards, new technologies, new products, and new applications, and develops a complete set of professional certifications, instructor certifications, and curriculum systems in various directions, and connects the corresponding resources to schools.

The second is the talent training ecosystem. The school completes the construction of the corresponding resource pool according to the needs of the talent training program, including the construction of professional course system, teaching material development, and the construction of internship and training bases. In the implementation process, teaching and certification can be combined, and students can use certification as a competency label for employment adaptation after graduation. At the same time, students can participate in higher-level training from Ruijie's certified training partners to obtain corresponding certifications, so as to adapt to more advanced positions. In addition, the training rooms and examination centers built by the school can be opened to the outside world, achieving revenue-generating effects while also serving social service functions. Talents who obtain relevant certificates have the opportunity to enter the Ruijie ecosystem for internships and employment.

At the level of "competition", Ruijie Networks adheres to the core concept of promoting learning and teaching through competitions, and selects and cultivates information and communication technology talents through competitions. Ruijie Networks has been working with the National Vocational School Skills Competition for many years, serving as a cooperative enterprise in the two events of "Computer Network Application" and "Network System Management". During this period, Ruijie Networks provided solid technical support for the competition, thereby efficiently promoting the improvement, assessment and selection of talent capabilities.

Ruijie National College Student Information Technology Competition is a network talent competition and exchange event held by Ruijie Networks for college students across the country. Ruijie Networks implements the assessment of students' project cognition and practical training by organizing regional and national competitions, and quickly completes the talent selection. The competition aims to promote the overall improvement of students' comprehensive quality, professional level and innovation ability, cultivate talents that meet social employment standards, broaden students' employment channels, and assist various colleges and universities to actively promote the reform of the teaching model of "using competitions to promote learning, using competitions to promote teaching, and combining learning and competitions" to promote the improvement of talent training quality. The Ruijie competition has been successfully held for three sessions, becoming an important practice of the "competition" link in Ruijie's implementation of the "job course competition certificate employment" model.

It is worth mentioning that the 2024 Ruijie Competition has also launched a "competition certificate equivalence mechanism", that is, contestants who enter the semi-finals can directly obtain the Ruijie Network Engineer (RCNA) certification certificate, and contestants who enter the finals can directly obtain the Ruijie Network Senior Engineer (RCNP) certification certificate or RCIE-RS experimental examination qualification. This measure not only greatly motivates the enthusiasm of the contestants, but also lays a solid foundation for the future career development of the contestants, achieving a seamless connection from the competition field to the workplace.

In order to attract more students to participate and motivate more students to strengthen their ICT skills, the 2024 Ruijie Competition also set up generous bonuses and gifts. In addition, the top 30 in the semi-finals of the competition and the leading teachers of various higher vocational colleges will also receive corresponding rewards. The establishment of these rewards will undoubtedly provide more sufficient motivation for the contestants to participate.

In addition to the wonderful performances of the contestants in the finals, the Ruijie competition will also simultaneously hold a school-enterprise cooperation forum with the theme of "Reflection and Implementation Exploration of Regional Practice Centers and AI Empowerment in Colleges and Universities" to jointly create a new model of school-enterprise cooperation; hold a Ruijie Authorized Training Partner (RTP) business seminar to jointly explore ways to develop ICT talents; and organize students to visit Ruijie's smart factory to experience the charm of cutting-edge technology firsthand.

As the finals and award ceremony are approaching, we look forward to the wonderful performance of each contestant, and also hope that this grand event of the ICT industry can inject new vitality into the training and selection of Chinese ICT talents. See you in Fuzhou on December 28!