IT talents who are about to graduate approach their job search with confidence, according to a recent study by get in it and the HTWK Leipzig. More than 1,000 German career starters and young professionals were asked how they felt about job hunting and starting a career. Findings that are certainly also interesting for the Austrian labour market:

Active contact very welcome

They are in demand on the labour market and they know it: the majority of the IT talents surveyed - recent graduates and young professionals alike - would like to work in the IT sector. be contacted directly with job offers. But a call from the HR department is not enough.

• Please do not call! Employees in IT prefer the Contact by e-mail or message via social mediaafter employers become aware of them. If they want to contact an employer themselves, they also choose email as a means of communication.
• IT talents have a clear idea of who they would like to be contacted by. There is a wide gap between desire and reality. Half of those surveyed have already been contacted by a headhunter, 65 per cent by a company's HR department. However, if you want to stand out from the crowd of contact requests, you have to approach things differently: 62 per cent of young IT talents would like to speak to someone in the field immediately and be contacted by a headhunter. Employees from the IT department are contacted. For 35 per cent, an enquiry from the HR department is completely okay.
• What makes a good approach? For both latent and active job seekers, an approach must be respond to their specific situation. "The enquiry must match the information in my CV / profile" - this is primarily the wish of those who are not actively looking for a job but are present on job portals.
• Good professional development opportunities are particularly important to IT talent when choosing an employer. These Perspectives should therefore already be communicated in the first speech.
• Around half of active and passive job seekers want a job with an employer whose Values suit them.

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