> It depends on two factors:
> * the apprentice
> * the company offering the apprenticeship
ACK.
>> for sure it gives you a basic but broad knowledge about almost the
>> whole IT area (of course without really specializing on a certain
>> area).
> I doubt that this is true. Someone working for a small KMU with 5
> people that does it services will have a vastly different set of
> knowledge from someone who worked at UBS, Cablecom, or whatever.
You're right, it was just my point of view after finishing the apprenticeship at a 'large swiss bank' where I had the opportunity to see some more IT services that just fixing a PC.
But I don't want to imply that my former company is a good place for taking an IT apprenticeship. Of course there are lots of other factors than just 'putting the apprentice into different IT areas'.
> I know lots of people with an finished it apprenticeship that
> aren't really good with computers. Some of them changed class of
> business right after finishing their apprenticeship. Some stayed
> with a minimum wage. There also people which took an IT
> apprenticeship just because they like to play counterstrike (this
> isn't that much exagerrated).
I totally agree with you that there are examples like that. And maybe there are more such examples compared to other jobs because there are lots of 'counterstrike gaming kids'. But in general, someone who took the IT apprenticeship _should_have_ a deeper (and/or broader) knowledge of IT than someone who did the PC Supporter course.
cheers,
andi
