Volunteer
Hackathons are now very popular and very much in vogue. Not only global corporations or companies in the technology industry benefit from a hackathon. It can also make sense for smaller companies to organise a hackathon. If the topic has never come up for you before, you can also make the suggestion yourself. We will show you why you can volunteer during our hackathon.
- Contribute your ideas – in the daily work routine itself, there is often far too little time to get really creative. There is simply not enough time to come up with unusual solutions or suggestions. Everything always runs strictly according to plan and the to-do lists are completely full.
At the hackathon, you can finally implement everything that has been on your mind for a long time. Many employees have very different ideas on how problems could be solved or what innovation would make work easier and better – the only thing missing so far has been the chance to put them forward and put them into practice.
- Look beyond the end of your nose – many employees only know colleagues from other departments from the phone or through emails. This can often lead to frustration as different perspectives clash. There is often a lack of understanding of how the other person works, what their goals are and what ideas they bring to the table.
By holding a hackathon work together with employees from other departments in a very targeted way. Not just in a roundabout way, but directly in a joint team. This is certainly also a challenge, but it also enables you to look beyond your own horizons. How does another department approach problems? What advantages does that bring? And what can you learn from each other?
The benefits go far beyond the time of the hackathon, as in the future you will better understand how other departments react and thus you can improve your cooperation in the long term.
- Make valuable contacts – a large network offers many advantages. At a hackathon, you come into contact with many new people that you might never have met in your everyday work. Suddenly you are sitting together with a project manager, a programmer, a designer, a marketing expert and a middle management executive and looking for common ideas and solutions.
- Learn to implement ideas and concepts quickly – at a hackathon you can also learn a lot for your own way of working. Time is short and yet results should be produced at the end that can be presented. Designing and producing functioning products within one day is not child’s play.
At a hackathon, you learn to focus on the essentials and really push a project forward. There is simply no time for dawdling and unproductive side issues. Once you have internalised this, you can also use it to your advantage in your normal job.