The vacation campaign "Wissen was geht" ("Know what works") has been run by the Lake Constance Economic Development Agency since 2004. During the summer vacations, interested school pupils have the opportunity to get to know renowned training companies in the Lake Constance region. The young people aged between 14 and 20 are given an interesting insight into the day-to-day working life of the companies over the course of half a day.
For example, doubleSlash was happy to open its doors to a total of seven young people to answer various questions. What does a typical working day at doubleSlash look like? What does a developer actually do and what is programming anyway?
After a brief introduction to the company and the most important job profiles in IT, a tour of the company with a look into the server room awaited the potential IT trainees. The current trainees Teresa Stier (IT specialist for system integration), Marius Dienel (IT specialist for application development) and Leonie Hörmann (office communication clerk) then presented their day-to-day work and activities at doubleSlash.
The apprenticeship "Media designer—Digital and Print", which doubleSlash is offering as a new apprenticeship starting in 2018, was also presented.
The young people were then allowed to get hands-on: They learned the basics of programming in a small programming competition. The task: to recreate the doubleSlash logo using the Robot Carol programming language. The realization: it's not that difficult. And it's even fun.
At the end of the day, 14-year-old Niklas is certain that he wants to start an apprenticeship or study computer science.
"Campaigns like "Wissen was geht" are a great opportunity for us to give young people an authentic insight into a medium-sized IT company. After all, choosing the right and suitable profession is not always easy," says Sonja Egle, HR Officer at doubleSlash. Our current trainee Teresa Stier shows that this way of promoting young talent works. She got to know doubleSlash through "wissen was geht", applied for an apprenticeship and has now been part of the doubleSlash team since 2015. "A great success story that we look forward to repeating," says Egle.
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