Educational guide even in Corona times – news.wko.at

In view of the corona pandemic, the “BIM” professional information fair cannot take place in the conventional format as a public fair in the Salzburg Exhibition Center this year. Nevertheless, the thousands of young people who are faced with important decisions on their educational path should receive Corona-compliant support. The answer to this challenge are the “BIM future talks”: individual talks between young people and potential training partners in order to exchange ideas in person or digitally.

“Due to the outstanding importance of the trade fair – the ‘BIM’ is after all the largest career information event for western Austria and the southern Bavarian region – it quickly became clear to us as the organizer that we would put together an alternative offer this year,” explains BIM chief organizer Gabriele Tischler from der Education department of the WK Salzburg. The already existing “BIM app” (www.bim-app.at) for information gathering and structured trade fair preparation. On the planned days of the fair (November 19-22) there will be the “BIM future talks” for young people and their parents in the congress area of ​​the exhibition center.

“We are very happy that, despite the rapid change of concept, more BIM exhibitors want to take part in the future talks every day,” says Tischler happily. “We have already been able to convince almost 60 companies or training providers of the corona-related realignment and are sure that there will be a few more by November 19th.”

Conversations online or on site

With the online version of the “BIM future talks”, the young people can click on www.bim-app.at use numerous information offers. It starts with an “interest compass” (interest test), in which, after various questions have been answered, areas of interest and the appropriate companies or educational partners are suggested. Now you can click through the offers of your personal educational proposals and use numerous information tools: Find out detailed information on the respective homepage, watch videos, ask questions via an FAQ program or make an appointment for a future talk (online or on site). All of the information collected can be saved in a virtual exhibition wallet for later use.

Appointments for a future talk are simply made via a link to the “Talque” platform. After a one-time registration, appointment requests can be made there. To do this, the user clicks on the respective provider and selects “Meet”. Meetings can then be arranged either on site at the exhibition center or online via video conference. An online questionnaire is available to candidates on the BIM app to better prepare for the future interview. Regardless of this, questions can of course also be formulated yourself.

Young people can come to meetings in the exhibition center accompanied by an adult. The individual appointment arrangements ensure that there are no large crowds. In addition, there will be visitor guidance and seamless contact tracing in the congress area. It goes without saying that it is compulsory to wear mouth and nose protection.

Useful additional information

In addition, a general information area is available to users of the BIM app, where you can find extensive information on topics such as school, apprenticeship, specialist training, studies, applications, career choices or potential analyzes. In the video corner, videos can be filtered according to interest categories and occupations.

The offer is rounded off with the “Playmit-Online-Rally-Challange” competition. Users should answer as many questions as possible about the participating companies and training providers. Finally, ten Apple AirPods including charging case valued at € 139 each and a Onewheel Pint valued at € 1,100 will be raffled off among the hardest-working competition participants.

The “BIM future talks” are a joint event by the Chamber of Commerce, State and AMS Salzburg as well as EUREGIO, the districts of Berchtesgadener Land and Traunstein and the Bavarian metal and electrical employers.