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Our studio guest this week: Dirk Martin. | Made in Germany

213 views · Published 25 November 2009 · 2:54 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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Martin is member of the board of the BJU,the Association of Young Entrepreneurs.DW-TV: Let's pull in Dirk Martin from the BJU,the Association of Young Entrepreneurs here in Germany. Would you hire someone with a Bachelors degree?

Dirk Martin: Of course we would. It's a question of qualifications and personality. After six semesters you can have a qualification.

DW-TV: Why do you think people in the busienss world are so concerned about this new system in Germany. There are a lot of managers,people hiring,who are actually afraid of a Bachelors degree.

Dirk Martin: I cannot understand this. Because I know there are a lot of people who have a qualification after six semesters and we know this qualification from a special university here in Germany. So I think they have some problems because it is completely new,but in the end we need these qualifications,we need these people,and we can be very happy that they are ready earlier than they were with the old system. 

DW-TV: Is it a time question here? A lot of people have complained in the past five or ten years that German students study too long. You as a businessman - do you want people coming to you who have less time at the university under their belt?

Dirk Martin: Yes,of course. Because we can't find the people we need for our company. We are software developers and we need software developers. If I get them one year earlier,it's easier for me,and that's the reason why we changed the system. 

DW-TV: Do you understand what students are saying right now in their complaints - that there's less time for them to do internships,work study programms...they say they're coming out of university with a degree but not a lot of practical experience.

Dirk Martin: I'm not really sure if they can't do other internships. They can change the university across Europe because it's all the same standard. So they can make experience outside Germany. So they can come into the company with experience from foreign countries. So I think the criticism is not understandable.

DW-TV: You're a young entrepreneur,you talk to other young entrepreneurs. What would young entrepreneuers like yourself like to see coming out of universities here in Germany that's not happening?

Dirk Martin: I think they're now earlier in the market,and that's fine for us. Maybe we can reduce the volume of the studies,because there are a lot of things that are not interested in the market. 



DW-TV: Dirk Martin is with us from the German Association of Young Entrepreneurs. 
Dirk,why can't companies guarantee us that our personal information will remain private?

Dirk Martin: I think the problem is that you have more complexity in the networks and also more complexity with the data. So it's very difficult to protect all the data for the person who has to work with this.

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