The autumn holidays start on Thursday – but this Tuesday, like every year on the Tuesday before the autumn holidays, around 440 students from the high schools in the west of Bremen will get down to business again: At the “Career entry in Gröpelingen” they have the opportunity to think about it to deal with their future.
15 stations will be set up especially for this day in the Lichthaus, the former workers’ office of AG Weser. There, representatives from various training companies and umbrella organizations as well as from the youth careers agency and the advice center “Ran to the Future” (Raz) give young people their first insights into various professional fields and apprenticeships. The eighth, ninth and tenth graders from the West Comprehensive School (GSW), the Neue Oberschule Gröpelingen (NOG) and the Oberschulen im Park, Helgolander Straße and Waller Ring can talk to trainees at the stands and do small practical exercises in various areas of activity sniff in.
Gröpelingen Marketing wants to support students
For more than 15 years, the Gröpelingen Marketing association has been organizing the annual careers fair to support students on their way into the world of work and to help them make initial contacts for their future professional lives. Project manager Sarah Louërat from Gröpelingen Marketing has been traveling to the participating high schools for several weeks to prepare the young people for the event in workshops.
Sarah Louërat from Gröpelingen Marketing leads the project.
Photo: Roland Scheitz
This ranges from brief directions to the event location – many young people know the light house from their visits to the waterfront directly opposite – to practical tips on how to behave. At the same time, there are around 80 students and 50 exhibitors in the light house, says Louërat: “So it gets a little loud. Therefore, please pay attention during conversations and do a sound check for yourself,” Louërat appeals to the young participants. This applies especially to those for whom the topic of starting a career doesn’t play a major role at the moment: “But others are currently on it Looking for a training position – and maybe you will soon too – we want to show solidarity and not disturb you!”
Jeans instead of sweatpants
The project manager also recommends that sweatpants should be swapped for jeans or something similar at the careers fair – and that any questions are best written down on paper in advance instead of saving them on your smartphone: “Because if you constantly look at your cell phone during a conversation, it makes an impact “It’s pretty rude and doesn’t go down well with the other person.”
Everyone has one hour at the event – that’s four minutes per company with 15 stations. “It’s better to choose five to seven stands beforehand so that you have more time and can find out more about everything in a relaxed manner,” advises Louërat. But how do you even start a conversation with a company representative? Louërat would like to know from the ninth graders of the Neue Oberschule Gröpelingen (NOG), which she visits on a Wednesday at the end of September, what information they would like to ask the company before concluding a training contract. Lowered gazes, a short time to think – and then it bubbles out of the young people: “I would ask what you can actually do in the company.” “I would be interested in what I have to be able to do and what qualification I need to get a training position there “I would like to know what the working hours are and whether there are shifts.”
30 minute workshop
An internship is mandatory in the eighth and ninth grades, which is intended to give students their first insight into professional life. Eight students from the class already have an internship position for the coming year, six are currently awaiting answers to their applications and five are still looking for a place. Louërat’s 30-minute workshop was well received by the young people. “It is very helpful that she explained to us in such detail what we can do,” says Melissa, for example. The 16-year-old often talks to her sister and other family members about their training and could imagine working in a funeral home later: “And I’ve already looked at other professions, I’m also good at the Bundeswehr or customs Imagine – customs showed a lot at the Girls and Boys Day and I was also at the Bundeswehr stand at a trade fair, that was cool.” Dorentin already knows where he will do his internship in February: “As an office management clerk The 15-year-old doesn’t have a specific career goal yet – but he would be interested in training in architecture or studying law. Like Melissa, he wants to use the career fair on Tuesday to look around even further.
To the home page
