Digital trainee event is intended to put school leavers in contact with training companies

Created: 04/19/2022, 08:00

Dachau's district administrator Stefan Löwl, Fürstenfeldbruck's district administrator Thomas Karmasin and Stefan Joachimsthaler, chairman of the AmperVerband (from left) looked over the shoulder of a trainee in the AmperVerband's training workshop.

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District of Fürstenfeldbruck - Finding a suitable training position quickly with little effort - this should be made possible for school leavers with the digital training event #match your future.

The event on October 21st and 22nd will also support training companies in their search for suitable applicants. 

"Corona has made it incredibly difficult to hold trade fairs and events for careers orientation in person," explained Fürstenfeldbruck's District Administrator Thomas Karmasin when presenting the cross-district project.

That's why #match your future is being used to ensure that trainers and trainees meet digitally, Karmasin continues.

The administrative districts of Fürstenfeldbruck and Dachau are being supported by Merkur Media.

#match your future is structured like a common social media platform.

Employers who have a training position to fill fill out a simple matrix on it.

Irrespective of this, the future trainees also enter information about their interests, strengths and career ideas.

"I see a decisive advantage in the fact that the focus here is not on the school grades - as with a classic application - but on the person with their talents," explains Markus Neubauer, Regional Manager Sales Online at Merkur Media.

Even those who don't excel in school with top grades are sometimes perceived very positively here.

First chat casually, then conclude a contract

Both the prospective trainees and the HR managers then have the opportunity to give “likes” to show their interest.

If the young person and the employer give each other a “like”, a so-called “match” occurs, which results in targeted contact being established.

This informal, digital form of getting to know each other corresponds to the modern reality of life of young people, says Neubauer.

However, it shouldn't stop at casual chatting on the sofa;

Ideally, a real job interview or even an apprenticeship contract will follow.

The AmperVerband, based in Olching, was the first company to be won over by this trainee initiative.

He works in the field of water and waste water technology for both the district of Fürstenfeldbruck and Dachau and runs his own training workshop where young people are trained, for example, as mechatronics or electronics technicians.

"More and more areas in our company are becoming mechanized, so that the need for trainees is constantly growing," explains Thomas Mösl, Managing Director of the AmperVerband from the entrepreneurial point of view.

Events like #match your future could definitely help to close this gaping gap.

However, there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done before the digital event can take place in October: It is important to get as many trainers as possible to participate, to involve the schools and to initiate positive word-of-mouth propaganda.

Jutta Thiel