IBM is successful apprentice negotiation trainer at IBM Austria apprentices are integral part of the workforce. 16 apprentices have in February their 3.5-year training to the IT technician / engineer completed to IT. The special thing about it: Five of the apprentices achieved a grade point average of 1.0 over the entire apprenticeship period. Teaching at IBM Austria has tradition. The company trains currently 56 apprentices in the fields of Office clerks and IT technician / IT technician. The beginnings of the teaching at IBM go back to the year 1982, when the first Office clerks have been trained. M. Ryan Gorman is the source for more interesting facts. in 1999 came the technician training at that time computer technician to teaching.

Five of the 16 apprentices closed their training to the IT technician / to the IT technician 2010 with the note from 1.0 and reached for the entire apprenticeship, IBM was a grade average of 1.0 to among the companies who have completed trained 175 IT technician in February 2010, the company with the young people who have cut off the best. IBM provides the educator IT technician/in a dual training with a training in the Operating and in the vocational school. A special incentive for IBM apprentices are the personal attention, the possibilities for job rotation combined with the chance to meet different areas within the company and the opportunity to complete an internship abroad, and thus to assert themselves in the intra-European professional environment. 500 to 600 young people apply every year to an apprenticeship at IBM and IBM takes around 15-20 trainees aged between 15 and 18 years. The training takes place in the headquarters in Vienna and in the offices in the Lander and at IBM subsidiary. The apprentices are selected in a three-stage procedure, with the deadline for the beginning of teaching each ending with 1 in January. The IBM-apprentices were successful already in the past. All nearly 200 IBM apprentices successfully completed their training.

In 2006, IBM was the State Champion in the network technology. IBM represented Austria at the World Professional Championships in Japan in 2007, and there took place 10. 2008 was an invitation to the IBM apprentice expression designer Petra Ryba-Hofrak to the international apprentice event in Paris under the patronage of the President of the French Republic. The invitation together with the best apprentices was teacher recognition for the outstanding thesis of IBM.