IT Occupations

The rapid emergence and growth of the ICT industry and its related ICT user industries created a clear call for new industry-specific occupations. Drawing from earlier experiences, where occupations from the Electrical and Metal Industries have been rearranged and curricula redefined, this process was the spear head for the introduction of a new innovative training concept to German VET.

As a major result, entirely new occupations for the yet relatively young IT industry have been established and the IT sector was the first to implement the reformed guidelines for the execution of VET. This has been extremely successful and led to many IT companies being involved with [dual] VET for their first time in order to train urgently needed highly qualified IT personnel.