Promoting the next IT generation

Lars Bischhausen outlines the process for an IT project on a whiteboard and discusses it with two other apprentices in the ICT Academy team. The 18-year-old, who is in his fourth year of training as an IT technician with a Swiss Federal VET Diploma, receives assignments from a wide variety of teams and departments. He develops software solutions for them or supports them with project management. “From the outset, I have been able to take on responsibilities and have direct customer contact,” says Lars with pride. At the moment, he is working on the emergency and crisis management tool for PostBus.

“From the outset, I have been able to take on responsibilities and have direct customer contact,” says a proud Lars Bischhausen, in his fourth year of training as an IT technician with a Swiss Federal VET Diploma.

More than 1,500 IT employees and apprentices are advancing the digitization of Swiss Post and PostFinance. Four years ago, in response to the shortage of skilled workers, Swiss Post launched the ICT Academy, a team of apprentices who implement internal Swiss Post ICT projects.