Overview

After checking to make sure you meet our minimum requirements, you can request an appointment. At that appointment, you will fill out our application about your background and take a test to assess your reading and math abilities. Everyone who meets certain select criteria based on the information provided at the appointment also has an interview with us. We then make offers to the candidates we feel are most likely to succeed, based on their application information, test results, and interview.

We are extremely selective. Fewer than 5% of applicants are offered positions. Just meeting the minimum requirements is not sufficient.

The training lasts for up to twenty weeks, and is aggressively paced. Associates learn:

• Markup Languages, such as XHTML and XML
• High-Level Languages, such as C#, VB.NET and Java
• Databases, such as MSSQL Server and Oracle
• Web Development Technologies, such as Javascript, CSS, ASP.NET and Web Services

The final part of training includes a paid internship.

Everyone who successfully completes our training is guaranteed to be hired. Once hired, Associates commit to working for us for two years.

Minimum Requirements

All applicants must:

• be interested in pursuing a career in programming and technology,
• have basic proficiency using PC in a networked environment and the Internet,
• be at least 18 years old,
• be a U.S. citizen or eligible to work in the U.S. for thirty continuous months from the first day of training, (Catalyst does not offer visa assistance or sponsorship of any kind),
• have a 10th grade or better reading and math ability,
• have never committed a violent crime,
• have been free of all drug use for the past eighteen months.