What does a software developer actually do? What does a typical working day look like? What training opportunities and courses of study are there? Yesterday, 20 young people were given answers to these questions and the opportunity to discover the world of IT for themselves in a fun way.
And there is a lot to discover. Computer science alone offers 125 careers in the fields of software, hardware and design. "Computer science is so versatile. We are delighted when young people are interested in it and can use a campaign like "wissen was geht!" to get an idea of whether there is a possible career for them," says Leonie Hlawatsch, Head of HR at doubleSlash.
Apprentices, students and employees talk about their day-to-day work
The young people were able to gain an insight into the company during the tour: Offices, common rooms, table football—and of course the server room were inspected.
This was followed by an insight into the various job profiles and the associated training paths. Teresa Stier (system integration) and application developer Marius Dienel gave an insight into IT and how important it is to show interest and apply early on the path to training.
Media IT specialist Judith Kleck described her professional career and showed which projects she is now working on at doubleSlash: Her tasks range from determining customer requirements to technical implementation. Her message: Have the courage! Computer science is not as "nerdy" as you think.
Programming: Try it out for yourself
In a small programming competition, the students were able to apply their first programming basics. The doubleSlash logo was recreated with the help of the Robot Carol programming language.
At the end of the morning, some of the 20 participants were sure that the world of IT might offer them a suitable career later on.
"We take our work with young talent very seriously. This is demonstrated by the fact that we currently employ ten trainees and DHBW students. Our three locations in Friedrichshafen, Munich and Stuttgart have a total of 46 junior employees. Campaigns such as "wissen was geht!" are a great opportunity for us to give young people an authentic insight into a medium-sized IT company. Because as we have seen again today, the presence of IT at schools varies greatly," says Leonie Hlawatsch.
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