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| LinuxTag LinuxTag, Europe's OSS event, and the IT users' fair IT Profits have teamed up, in cooperation with the State of Berlin's Projekt Zukunft, to present the Career Lounge for technical and managerial experts in the IT field. From May 30 through June 2 at the Berlin convention halls under the Funkturm, software manufacturers, system suppliers and other employers will be able to introduce themselves and talk directly with young people entering the field. T Profits, LinuxTag and Projekt Zukunft have designed the Career Lounge as a joint platform to bring IT specialists in the Berlin region together with employers in the IT professions, and is aimed at helping to alleviate the employment problems in the field. The IT industry association SIBB estimates a shortage of up to 4, 000 technical and commercial employees in the IT industry in the Berlin-Brandenburg region in 2007. LinuxTag, Europe's OSS event, and the IT users' fair IT Profits have teamed up, in cooperation with the State of Berlin's Projekt Zukunft, to present the Career Lounge for technical and managerial experts in the IT field. From May 30 through June 2 at the Berlin convention halls under the Funkturm, software manufacturers, system suppliers and other employers will be able to introduce themselves and talk directly with young people entering the field. The core of the Career Lounge is an online job exchange presented in cooperation with TU Berlin. This allows companies to register their vacancies in advance and to post a virtual introduction to potential emplyoees. During the LinuxTag and IT Profits fairs, interested applicants can meet their future employers face to face in the Career Lounge and arrange interview appointments. The Career Lounge will also offer a forum area during the fairs, with extensive resources for applicants, including application coaching, information on in-service study courses, and regional data. The recruiting services by IT Profits, LinuxTag and Projekt Zukunft are aimed at companies exhibiting at the two fairs, and at interested IT companies in the region. Potential employers can present themselves in several ways. Three of the supporters of international open-source software projects—IBM, Novell und Sun Microsystems—are official sponsors of LinuxTag 2007. The three IT companies will present their OSS-based solutions for businesses and government agencies at the Funkturm convention center. In addition to international IT vendors, numerous OSS service providers will be on hand, including a joint presentation under the auspices of the German OSS association Linux-Verband vor. As ever, free software projects will be well represented at LinuxTag, including all the popular distributions, such as Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Core, openSUSE and Ubuntu Linux. The projects will conduct their own user and developer conferences during the LinuxTag convention. This year's conference program includes some 200 lectures and workshops in up to five simultaneous tracks. The two-day conference event at IT Profits on May 30 and 31 presents the latest national and international IT developments for professional users in private and public-sector organizations in Berlin and Brandenburg. Among the key topics at the IT Profits conference are open source software, virtual geography, current developments in e-business, communication over broadband networks, and mobile applications. Highlights of the IT trade fairs at the Funkturm convention center will include the presentation ceremony of the Berlin–Brandenburg Best Practice Award on the evening of the opening day. Under the patronage of the Berlin–Brandenburg regional IT development association We make IT, three outstanding examples of regional IT solutions in the fields of e-government, geoinformation, mobile communication, and IT security will be honored. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Exhibition News :: home page |