Jaro Lanza
Study programme: Business Information Systems (BSc)
Employer: Uzin Utz AG
Position: Projectmanager PIM/MAM
What tips can you give young people who are looking for the right degree programme?
Attend info days at various colleges or universities. Ask graduates about their personal experiences. For many students, it only becomes clear after the first or second semester whether their choice of degree programme was the right one. Simply start with a degree programme that enables you to enter a desired career sector that you would like to enter later on.
Exhausting or child's play: What did your internship semester look like and what tasks did you take on?
The internship semester is a good chance to apply your learned knowledge in practice and to make your first contacts in the working world. I chose the area of data protection and compliance. Even if I don't work in these areas now, I still benefit in my job from the experience I have gained and the knowledge I acquired during the internship semester. In addition, this excursion into the working world offers the opportunity to find out where your strengths or weaknesses lie, in which areas you might not want to work, or whether you identify so much with your tasks that you even write your Bachelor's thesis about them. I myself and many of my fellow students were hired as working students after their internship semester. Thus, the practical semester offers another opportunity for your entry into the working world.
What is your advice to all graduates who are looking for their first job?
A job advertisement is often not even quite an A4 page. It can never really convey what exactly your tasks will be. Use the interview to get more information about the job. Nevertheless, you will only realise after a certain amount of time whether this job suits you. My tip to you is to start in an area that is exciting for you and see that you gain experience and develop yourself. Don't just look at the salary, but also how your employer wants to promote you further in order to avoid a personal standstill. Your career is long, you don't have to find your dream job with your first job.
Please describe your everyday working life. Which projects do you work on and which tasks do you particularly appreciate?
As a project manager, I have a lot of contact with colleagues at home and abroad. I supervise and support system rollouts, advise and make decisions in many different smaller and larger projects. Currently we have completed a project with our colleagues in the Czech Republic. After one year of planning, implementation and testing, the Czech Uzin websites are linked to our product information management system and our TYPO3 system. Besides many exciting tasks, I get to work with great colleagues. A good working atmosphere and team spirit are important to me. For me, the collegiality outweighs my tasks, because in a great team, even difficult tasks are easy to implement.
How would you complete the following sentence?
HNU... "provides the foundation in which you lay the cornerstone of your career."
