Anxious developers flock to the ＂Pure Blood HarmonyOS＂ training class.

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Wang Yu, who has two years’ experience in developing Android system, has been unemployed for three months. The anxiety caused by the unsuccessful job search made him start to consider changing careers. By chance, he learned about the publicity of the training course in HarmonyOS on the Internet.

HarmonyOS Training Course is a training project based on HarmonyOS system. At present, the native HarmonyOS operating system has been released for nearly a month. Because it is no longer compatible with Android applications, the progress of adaptation of third-party HarmonyOS native applications has become more and more topics on the Internet.

Along wITh this craze, there are also training-related educational institutions in HarmonyOS. Whether it is an established IT training institution or an emerging online education platform, more and more institutions are vying to open training courses in HarmonyOS.

Practitioners of an online IT training institution told Tech Planet that their students come from all over the country, not only practitioners with many years of development experience, but also many college students who have not graduated. Previously, their development experience was basically zero.

Tech Planet found that most of these IT training institutions started HarmonyOS-related courses this year, and most of them hung up propaganda slogans such as "unlimited academic qualifications", "good employment prospects", "good salary" and "talent shortage". Wang Yu was attracted by the "good employment prospects" and spent nearly 4,000 yuan to sign up for an online training course.

What is the gold content of these training courses with prices ranging from several thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan? Can they really help "Wang Yu" to get a good job "Qian Jing"?

Developers and institutions flock to HarmonyOS for concept training.

On October 22nd, Huawei’s native HarmonyOS operating system was officially released. This is the first domestic mobile operating system and the third largest mobile operating system in the world after Apple’s iOS and Android systems.

After the release of HarmonyOS operating system, the sales staff of several IT training institutions began to get busy again.

A salesman of Dana Education, a listed US company, told Tech Planet that since the end of October, the number of consultations he received has nearly doubled. Practitioners of another online training course also said that not only college students came to consult, but also practitioners who had been watching before.

The staff of Chongqing IT training institution told Tech Planet, "HarmonyOS training is not a sudden fire today. Last year, many developers began to turn to HarmonyOS."

As early as September 2023, Huawei announced the full launch of HarmonyOS native applications, and many training institutions saw the wind.

Among them, Chanz Education, a A-share listed company, launched courses related to HarmonyOS development in bilibili at the end of November last year. At the end of February this year, its "pure blood" native HarmonyOS applied development discipline started its first course.

Dana Education is also eyeing the cake of "HarmonyOS Training". Last December, Dana HarmonyOS application development course was launched. Han Shaoyun, founder and chairman of Dana IT Training Group, said that this course is employment-oriented, so that young people can learn the skills they just need to enter famous enterprises.

Searching with "HarmonyOS Training" as the key word, not only listed companies such as Dana Education and Chanz Education entered the market, but also some small and medium-sized adult education institutions, which were mainly engaged in non-IT training, tried to start classes and share a piece of it.

The students who sign up for the course are most concerned about whether they can really make money and whether they can enter the Internet giant. Wang Yu first became interested in HarmonyOS training because he saw a set of data published by Zhaopin recruitment platform.

According to the data of "Weekly Report of Spring Recruitment Market in 2024" released by WeChat official account of Zhilian Research Institute, the post demand of HarmonyOS in Spring Recruitment is nearly three times that of last year. At the same time, the average recruitment salary of development posts in HarmonyOS reached 18,191 yuan/month, which was 9% higher than the average salary of overall development posts (16,617 yuan/month).

Wang Yu told Tech Planet that she had two experience classes before signing up for the class. "The trainer mainly talked about the shortage of system development talents in HarmonyOS, and the market is very good now."

Influenced by the content of the experience class, Wang Yu’s deepest feeling after listening is, "HarmonyOS is the future development trend, and it will definitely make money and have more employment opportunities."

Xiao He and her friends, who are still in their senior year, followed this trend at the end of last month and signed up for an online HarmonyOS training course of more than 3,000 yuan. Her organization promised to recommend some recruitment opportunities for enterprises when they graduated.

HarmonyOS Training Course, a Shortcut to Big Factory?

"The demand for talents in HarmonyOS is in short supply, and enterprises are rushing to grab people", "The salary is good, the threshold is low, and the career development prospects are broad", "HarmonyOS is developing employment opportunities, and everyone who comes to to learn HarmonyOS is in demand". ……

These slogans are from the PC homepage of Chanz Podcast. Under its propaganda, HarmonyOS has developed into a job with low threshold and easy employment.

Similar to Chanz podcast, some small and medium-sized IT training institutions even advertise that even the inexperienced "Xiaobai" can master the skills developed in HarmonyOS with their training as long as they are willing to spend time.

Tech Planet consulted Chanz Podcast in the name of the students, and a staff member also said that there is no threshold for development experience requirements, "only the academic qualifications are required to be recruited in full-time colleges and above." The staff of another training institution also said that it is not limited to age or major.

At the same time, in order to prove the effectiveness of the training course, the sales of Chanz Podcast also showed the employment results feedback from the trainees.

A chat record shows that the students claimed to be the first batch of training courses in the Shanghai campus. At that time, eight or nine students who went out in the class all earned around 15 K-20 K. Another good news report shows that in the "HarmonyOS Development Phase I" class in Changping District, Beijing, 52 people graduated and 49 people were employed, and the employment rate reached 94.23%.

At the same time, among the teachers on display, trainers are labeled as "Huawei HarmonyOS Advanced Development Certification". According to Tech Planet, harmonyos Developer Application Certification is a series of certification tests for Harmony OS (HarmonyOS system) developers launched by Huawei.

"Low threshold, certain employment and high income" in propaganda speech has become the key to dispel students’ doubts.

In the consultation in the name of the trainees, many sales representatives said that the training course cooperated with some big factories. "Although employment is not guaranteed, it is definitely easier than recruitment in the market." One sales representative defined the training course as a "shortcut" to big factories.

Getting this "shortcut" will cost a lot of money and take a long time.

According to the courses released by several sales staff, the systematic HarmonyOS development training for Tech Planet Discovery takes about 4 to 6 months, most of which are taught offline, and the fees are about 20,000 to 40,000 yuan.

The lower-priced courses are mainly online classes. The training time starts in three months, and most of them cost more than 3,000 yuan.

According to the course system information provided by an institution, the courses offered by the institution in HarmonyOS are divided into basic classes and master classes, with a total training duration of 85 days. "However, the specific training duration depends on the individual’s progress," the sales said.

For students who are hesitant because of tuition pressure, many institutions will also introduce the strategy of installment payment. A salesperson said that tuition fees can be paid by credit card installment, or through the financial institution that his company cooperates with. "If the original price of the course is more than 20,000 yuan, the interest will be around 2,000 yuan in one and a half years, so the pressure will be lower."

The truth after "further study": playing concept card marketing harvest

"The real employment rate after training is actually very low." Wang Yu is currently studying more than half, but through communication with the students in the group, he found that the so-called slogan of ensuring 90% employment rate is just propaganda. "There are very few people in a class who can find jobs because of training."

As a development experience, Wang Yu also found that in the training class, the content that can be learned is very shallow. If you work directly with the knowledge you have learned, it is simply a fantasy. "Everyone is training with a high salary, and finally there are actually many people who can’t find a job."

Another zero-based student, who is halfway through the purchase of the course, still feels that he is not getting started. "Recently, he also submitted a lot of resumes, but none of them responded."

Senior R&D of a small game company told Tech Planet, "Small companies will not set up separate posts for the development of HarmonyOS, and most will choose internal personnel to transfer jobs first. People who have zero development experience before, but have received relevant training, are basically impossible to be considered. "

Another senior headhunter in the Internet industry also mentioned that he didn’t see the trend of large-scale recruitment in HarmonyOS. Now, only big companies are recruiting jobs in HarmonyOS alone, and this is not a new demand created, but only the number of jobs for Android development.

That is to say, the recruitment requirements and processes developed by HarmonyOS are no different from those developed by ANDRO and iOS. Except for academic qualifications, majors and learning ability, they need practitioners with relevant experience, rather than crash students created by training institutions.

Moreover, different from the prospects advertised by training institutions, many enterprises give priority to internal staff screening and transfer to development positions in HarmonyOS, rather than market-oriented recruitment.

The headhunters also said that with the gradual saturation of the mobile application market, the competition for mobile development posts is becoming increasingly fierce, and HarmonyOS App development is a trend, but it cannot reverse the saturation of the mobile application market.

In his view, compared with the outbreak of real demand, more training institutions just launched a new round of harvest by leveraging the "HarmonyOS concept".

As early as three years ago, Chanz Education had experienced a daily limit of five consecutive days because of catching up with the HarmonyOS system, rising from 19.39 yuan/share to 31.23 yuan/share. In June this year, with the completion of the development of HarmonyOS NEXT, the share price of education in Chanz has soared.

At present, the training business related to the concept of HarmonyOS has not been reflected in the performance level of education in Chanz.

However, in spite of this, in the marketing that many adult IT training institutions such as Chanz Education are optimistic about, more and more students are being attracted and become a part of the harvesting chain.

(Note: All the articles are pseudonyms. )