Last Thursday, companies, businesses and universities throughout Germany opened their doors to schoolgirls from the 5th grade onwards on "Girls Day". On this day, girls are to get to know apprenticeships and courses of study in IT, trades, natural sciences and technology. The consulting and software company doubleSlash was one of the participating companies on Lake Constance
"It is important to us to show the schoolgirls that there are a wide variety of careers in the IT sector. Since we have both software developers and IT consultants working for us, we can demonstrate this very well in practice. Anyone interested in IT has an incredibly wide range of career options after completing their IT training or studies: should the focus be on programming or on customer consulting and designing software solutions? Would you like to work in project business, product management or sales? Anything is possible," says Leonie Hlawatsch, Head of Human Resources at doubleSlash.
The doubleSlash team has also noticed that pupils are being introduced to IT at an ever earlier age at events such as "Girls' Day" or "Wissen Was Geht". "This time in particular, we had some girls between the ages of 12 and 14 who already had some programming skills from school. We think that's great, because it allows us to show the schoolgirls how the basics they learn in class can later be applied in professional practice."
Pupil Anne particularly enjoyed the programming competition, in which the girls recreated the company logo with a simple program: "I liked the programming best, as you could incorporate a bit of previous knowledge."
In addition, current and former trainees and students talked about their path into IT, which ultimately led them to doubleSlash.
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