Further education and development of digital skills are more important than ever

Hamburg, 30.04.2020 - Gruner + Jahr strengthen their employees and launch further training offers with tech bootcamp provider neuefische - School and Pool for Digital Talent. 

The new cooperation emerges from the existing partnership for the recruitment of IT talent, which was already launched in the summer of 2019, and through which young IT talent from the areas of web/app development and data science have been continuously recruited to join the renowned publishing house. 

Stefan Waschatz, Head of Human Resources at Gruner + Jahr: "We are delighted to be able to offer this training program. We already have been able to fish some exciting talent from the neue fische pool and are convinced of the quality of the training. The program our employees can apply to, if they are interested, is the advanced training to become a Data Scientist. This is a great opportunity for our employees, especially for those who want to reorient themselves."

"I am very pleased that Gruner + Jahr, as a leading publishing house in Europe and one of Hamburg's major employers, it is taking advantage of the opportunity presented by the crisis to train its employees. Now talented employees are also invited to join our open programs and jointly developed continuing education formats. Under the guidance of experienced coaches, we thus support the acquisition of key technical-digital skills that may even allow employees to move into a new role," says Dalia Das, founder of neuefische, which has already won the "New Work Award" for its innovative training concept. 

About neuefische - School and Pool for Digital Talent

neuefische is Germany's leading provider of technology bootcamps with locations in Hamburg and Cologne. The company's core mission is to identify, train and qualify motivated and talented career changers for digital professions. The offer is primarily aimed at graduates in the humanities, natural sciences and economics, but does not exclude dropouts and experienced career changers. With 50% women among the graduates, neue fische not only ensures more talent, but also more diversity in IT. Existing partners include Hamburg-based Unicorn ABOUT YOU, comparison portal Check24, ticketing provider Eventim, digital agency Deep Blue Networks, media house Gruner + Jahr, established e-commerce retailer OTTO, and New Work SE. 

About Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr is one of Europe's leading premium magazine publishers. It includes such established brands as "Stern," "Geo," "Brigitte," "Essen & Trinken" and "Schöner Wohnen" - plus young brands such as "Chefkoch," "Barbara," "Beef" and "11 Freunde." In total, Gruner + Jahr publishes around 500 print and digital media offerings in more than 20 countries. In addition, there are products and licenses, such as the "Schöner Wohnen" collection. The focus of activities is on Germany and France, where Prisma Media is one of the publishers with the widest reach.

The digital business contributes a quarter of revenues and is growing strongly. The digital offerings occupy leading positions in all publishing segments, from News to People to Living. In digital marketing, G+J operates the internationally active platform AppLike and holds shares in the native world market leader Outbrain. Territory, Germany's leading communications agency for branded content, is part of G+J. The Hamburg-based publisher holds a majority stake in the DDV Media Group in Dresden ("Sächsische Zeitung") and has a stake in the Spiegel Group ("Spiegel," "Manager Magazin").
Gruner + Jahr is 100 percent owned by Bertelsmann.