When I was running my boot camp, we had a 92% placement rate and a 97% completion rate. A big part of that was my investment in curriculum.
Even lower quality boot camps were still getting 70-80% placement rates, just because the industry was so hungry.
But now, with the current economic climate, you're seeing 20-30% placement rates across most boot camps, because the jobs aren't there.
A lot of boot camps don't invest in their content, so they're heavily reliant on instructors.
If you want somebody like me to teach a full-time boot camp, I'm going to do a great job, but I cost $100-200 an hour. Factor that across 12-14 weeks, plus an assistant instructor making around $100 an hour, and the costs are insane.
If you have quality curriculum, you can make your course asynchronous and less time intensive.
Build a curriculum where students can self-pace and selectively introduce mentorship at critical points, give them ways to ask questions through forums, Discord, open office hours, things like that.
There are lots of ways to reduce delivery costs and provide a quality experience, but that requires investing in infrastructure and content.
It's not a small lift, and you can't just throw some PowerPoints and videos together and say, "Here you go."
That's not going to get you the outcomes you want.
If you're going to train somebody, the only thing that matters is the outcomes, and your outcomes will benefit from the quality of your curriculum.
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3moCan you share the rationale of this mix: live + asynch + projects? In other words: what role do they play in the overall learning experience?