Today I represented Liip at the “Career Day” of powercoders.org, a Swiss association to teach refugees to code and to ultimately place them in Swiss IT companies.

Around twenty companies got five minutes to pitch for interns. Afterwards each company got a table, to provide a space for a short interview session for a potential three months internship with the powercoders.org students. The discussions at the table were stimulating and I was particularly pleased about the fact, that the first three people at our table were women. When I had decided to participate at this event to represent Liip on short notice, a colleague of mine said the refugees would all be men anyway. I was well pleased to see her proven wrong.

At Liip we get a fair amount of internship requests, often by people at the beginning of their work career. It was refreshing to discuss with experienced people at this events, people that are entrepreneurs, worked in education, worked at several companies, that have the ambition to make a mark with meaningful employment…, this was a common denominator among everyone that came to talk to me. I was equally impressed by the organisation and the commitment of the organisers, in particular Christian Hirsig. The passion he put into hosting this event and the project is infectious.

We are looking forward to working with one or more of the people we met at this extraordinary event.

www.powercoders.org