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| 171 »As a major international company, the corporate language is English. And every day I get to know new people with different back- grounds and new cultures. Diversity is very important to me, because I think it creates a good working environment« Jeppe Sidenius »I was worried that I couldn’t use the competences I’d learned from my studies« ADVERTISEMENT When Jeppe Sidenius graduated with an MSc in mathematical modelling and computation, he did not know what he wanted to do for a job, and after an interview at SimCorp he was unsure about how he could use his competences. ACQUIRING NEW KNOWLEDGE It was Jeppe’s professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) who got him in contact with his former manager. They arranged a coffee meeting and it resulted TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND GET RESPONSIBILITY department said that I should take on some of the tasks that no one else wanted to do, because that would give me new possibilities and responsibilities – and he was right,« says Jeppe and continues: »It also turned out that the tasks desire to be constantly challenged. If you’re willing to take a chance, there are so many possibilities to reinvent yourself at SimCorp. It’s awesome.« this, and I wasn’t sure how I could use the competences I’d learned from my studies,« says Jeppe and continues: »But today I work as a senior software engineer at SimCorp, and it turned out to be a really good match, even though I years, I’ve learned everything about SCRUM for programming, and I know now that, although we learned a lot on the study programme at university, being able to acquire new knowledge is the main skill I acquired.« INTERNATIONAL WORKING ENVIRONMENT SimCorp is a major international company with departments throughout the world, and this is one of the most attractive qualities of the company according to Jeppe. »As a major international company, the corporate language is English. And every day I get to know new people with different backgrounds and new cultures. Diversity is very important to me, because I think it creates a good working environment,« concludes Jeppe.
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What more could you ask for? When Emma Løber was hired as a student assistant at Siemens Gamesa in January 2020, her plan was to continue on the MSc programme when she graduated as a BSc in mechanical engineering. But she quickly realised that the workplace had more to offer than the university. After three months, Emma was offered a full-time job as a Mechanical Design Engineer, and she happily accepted: “I realised that I would rather spend those two years on gaining experience and developing professionally. I am surrounded by experts in my field – what more could you ask for? Furthermore, my motivation to learn is so much bigger when my work is applied in real life,” she says. www.siemensgamesa.com
