Developers:Day:Digital of kariera.gr was successfully completed. 550+ candidates from the IT sector conducted 3,871 online interviews at Developers:Day:Digital of kariera.gr, the largest employment hub in Greece.
The largest event for employment in Information Technology and New Technologies was held by kariera.gr for the second time in a digital environment!
- 550+ job candidates
- 2,112 job applications
- 3,871 online job interviews
- 16,984 messages between candidates and employers
- 120+ recruiters
- 20 companies
- 1800+ views on the talks in the live webinars and the talks broadcast via YouTube
- 30 guest speakers from the IT field
The majority of the job positions that the companies that took part in the event are looking to fill are in the following personnel: Data Scientist, Full Stack Engineers, Front-end Engineers, Back-end Engineers, DevOps, Big Data Engineers and Test / QA Engineers.
While the programming languages and frameworks they are looking for are: Java, Javascript, .Net, PHP, React and Angular. The focus of the discussions via online webinars was Data-driven business decision-making, how Technology can be a key enabler of our country's development in the coming years, how the workforce can utilize knowledge and experience to cover new areas highlighted by the digitalization of work and the remote working , as well as digital nomads, and the search, by organizations, for people with knowledge and skills around the digital economy.
During the two-day event, candidates held interviews with 20 Greek and foreign companies, such as: Agile Actors, Ansys, Coding School, Dialog Semiconductor, Eurobank, European Dynamics, ΥΥ, Hiring Solutions | kariera.gr, Intralot, INTRASOFT International, MR HealthTech Ltd, New SIA Greece, Nokia, Noris, QUALCO, Scytalys, Uni Systems, Upstream, Vodafone Greece & Kotsovolos.
Mr. Markos Veremis, Upstream Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board, in his discussion with Mr. Th. Vasiliadis, Co-Founder and Chairman of kariera.gr on the topic “The future of Greece lies in technology”, among other things, emphasized how important it is to know the trends in the labor market before choosing an academic education, stating in this regard:“Convince your 15-year-old cousin not to do some stupid degree. Convince a friend you have outside Greece, who is very senior , to come and work here with you.” He also stated that: “1/3 of graduates continue to go to subjects that lead them, in one way or another, to become teachers. Greece has had to hire teachers for years, so in essence it is a sentence to unemployment. They have no knowledge or understanding of how the market works and the demand it has.”
A typical example of a domestic initiative in the technology sector, which now has a global presence, is the company Pobuca, which Mr. Isidoros Sideridis, CEO, presented in an online discussion at the event. As he said characteristically, “It is important that the people behind start-ups have an understanding of what we call capitalism. How the world of capital, markets, growth, escalation works. I think we are not taught this in Greece. We are not taught, for example, how banks work.” “But the new batch of executives in start-ups understand better how the world works in business. This is improving. However, there is a large number of people who have not touched the start-up community and are lagging behind in business developments. So what should executives in Technology have in order to succeed? Continuous learning is what we need. They have acquired abroad, for example in England, the culture of constantly educating themselves. In other words, beyond what we study, it is our responsibility to develop our subject on our own. In this, I think we are a little behind in Greece.”
All participants attended speeches by distinguished personalities on IT and New Technologies issues, such as: Giuli Bonarou, Yield Optimization Manager at Project Agora «Data driven solutions creating impact», Fanis Kasimis, CEO Audax Cybersecurity / Cybersecurity Expert, «Professional Type: Ethical Hacker», Giorgos Soulogiannis, Purchase and Product Manager, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Hellas, Miltos Karapas, Commercial Manager, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Hellas, «BANDAI NAMCO: More fun for everyone», Giannis Smyrnios, IT Consultant at Frontmen – Front-end Chapter Leader at Carepay, Katerina Skroumbelou, Software Engineer at Narwhal Technologies Inc (Nrwl), «A meetup in the times of Covid», Giannis Smyrnios, IT Consultant at Frontmen – Front-end Chapter Leader at Carepay, Haris Giannakides, Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at SG Digital, Sergio Kagiema, frontend Engineer at Agile Actors, Udacity certified Frontend Developer, VueJS Athens organizer, «What's your Javascript: Vue, Angular & React», Valentini Voutsina HR & Talent Manager, Instashop and Fotis Karalis, Deputy CTO, Instashop, «Coding for Convenience», Giorgos Bitios, CPO Lancom / Battlenet, «ESPORTS & Technology: A New Era for Gaming and Sports», Argyris Zymnis, Co-founder of Plex, «The evolution of the software developer career path», Isidoros Sideridis CEO of Pobuca, Theofilos Vasiliadis, Chairman at Kariera.gr, «Hiring challenges in the Greek job market», Marco Veremis, Upstream Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board, Theofilos Vasiliadis, co-founder and Chairman at Kariera.gr, «The future of Greece is through technology», Kostis Galousis, Web Chapter Leader / Capability Lead, Kostas Sidiropoulos, Capability Lead Software Engineer in Test, Pantelis Nasikas, Capability Lead for Data & Big Data Architect, Alexis Panousis, Head of Engineering-Camelot Lottery Solutions, Agile Actors, «Agile Actors Chapters and Technologies», Dr. Nikos Mylonopoulos, Associate Professor of Digital Business at Alba Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece, «The future of work and the merging of business and digital skills», Spyros Bethanis – Digital Channels Systems, Division Manager, Eurobank, «The industrial revolution in Banking», Marios Logothetis, PhD – Senior Research and Innovation Manager, INTRASOFT International, « A Big data Streaming and Analytics Platform – Approach, Development and Application», Tonia Tzitzi, IT Recruitment Consultant, kariera.gr, Tasos Mammas, Recruitment Consultant, kariera.gr, « IT and Recruitment: Let's bridge the gap», Giannis Papides, Chief Technology and Business Change Officer of Kotsovolos – Dixons SE Europe, «Join us and Be part of IT evolution!», Giorgos Mitropoulos, Architecture Team, Nokia, «Traffic management in mobile core networks for CIOT deployments», Giannis Alexopoulos,Sr. Director of Product Engineering, Qualco, "From Desktop to Web", Nazaret Kazarian, VP of Engineering, Upstream, "Leading Mobile Technology in High Growth Markets", Konstantinos Athanasiou, API Engineer, Vodafone Greece, "Driving Innovation through Microservices: Vodafone's Journey".
Also, kariera.gr in collaboration with Alba Graduate Business School, in their effort to open new "windows" of professional opportunities to young men and women with a strong academic profile and STEM studies, offered a full scholarship for the MSc in Finance, exclusively to the participants of Developers:Day:Digital.
