adesso AG and StepStone Publish Career Guidebook for IT Professionals

Dortmund/Düsseldorf, 12 March 2009 – In cooperation with the job portal StepStone the IT service provider adesso AG published the career guidebook “ITkarriere“. The magazine provides information about trends on the IT job market, shows ways for planning a career and for advanced job trainings as well as it provides job applicants with useful tips. ”Tkarriere“ can be ordered for free on the websites of adesso and StepStone and is being distributed on various job fairs.

The need for IT professionals has been unbroken for many years. The job market for experienced developers and consultants has proved to run largely independent from economic cycles. The conjoint career guidebook of adesso AG and StepStone addresses exactly the target group of IT professionals. On 36 pages experts from field work as well as scientists from all domains of IT have drawn a comprehensive picture of the IT industry.

“ITkarriere“ is written in magazine style: Facts and backgrounds on the industry and on career take turns with interviews and diverting articles. The magazine also takes up and closely deals with delicate topics such as, for example, high demands on mobility and the percentage of women in IT. This provides useful information for potential applicants, which help to evaluate the challenges and to recognize the advantages a change of job may offer.

The career guidebook is available on various IT and job fairs as, for example, on the fair connecticum taking place in Berlin on April 21-23, 2009. Moreover, it can be ordered on the websites of adesso AG and StepStone Germany. On www.adesso.de the magazine is available for download as PDF document and can in addition be ordered as printed version in the section “Jobs & Karriere“. StepStone has provided a page for the presentation of the guidebook at www.it-jobs.stepstone.de/content/de/de/b2c-itkarriere-karriereratgeber-fuer-it-professionals.cfm .

“Being a medium-sized IT company we are certainly aware of the lack of skilled employers and executives“, explains the adesso CEO Rainer Rudolf. “Our career guidebook gives an extensive overview on the chances and challenges the IT industry provides. “

Sascha Theisen, spokesman of StepStone adds: “For millions of job candidates StepStone is the Number One for getting information on career topics and for finding an adequate job. Combined with the extensive industry-specific knowledge of adesso AG we herewith provide an excellent guide on the IT job market for interested people – a powerful and goal-oriented cooperation.”