Data processing merchant

Data processing clerk is a name for a training occupation according to the German Vocational Training Act in electronic data processing . This job description was replaced by other apprenticeships at the end of the 1990s. The last training course was completed on January 31, 2001.

The content of the training regulations was closely based on the training occupation industrial clerk with the addition of IT- technical training content . The subjects in the vocational school included business and economics , accounting , data processing technology and organization, programming (e.g. with assembler , COBOL , SQL ), mathematics and English, as well as religion and sport .

The job description of the IT businessman goes back to the 1970s. COBOL as a business-oriented language was very widespread at the time and was a programming focus as a training content. Here the connection between the commercial and the technical becomes clear.

Even older content - partly before 1985 - such as punch cards and COBOL belonged to the training of the data processing clerk even in 1996 . This and other reasons led to the fact that this job description was replaced by new apprenticeships.

education

The training usually took place in the dual system in the training company and in the vocational school .

The training usually lasted three years, but could be shortened to two and a half years. However, this shortening had to be approved by the company and requested from the IHK in good time . It was up to the training company whether the first or last year of training was shortened. There was no fixed rule for an average grade to be achieved. For example, trainees with a high school diploma were candidates for a shorter training period.

Follow-up professions

The profession was on 1 August 1997 by the Regulation on professional training in the field of information and telecommunications technology of the trades IT system merchant , specialist with the fields of application development and system integration , computer science Kaufmann and IT systems engineer , replaced as the old training regulations no longer The requirements of the practice corresponded and the information and telecommunication technology due to technical progress and related innovations became too extensive to combine this in a training occupation. The four new IT apprenticeships have a common core qualification (approx. 50% of the apprenticeship time) in the electrical, IT and business fields.

literature

W. Barthel, G. Hund and M. Wolf-Litt, Leverkusen: Data processing salesman . Leaflets on vocational studies, Volume 1, published by the Federal Labor Office, Nuremberg, in cooperation with the German Trade Union Federation, Düsseldorf. 1 - IX A 303.Bertelsmann Verlag Bielefeld, 1st edition 1973, No. 12.90.252.164 E, 15 pages.