Together with the Chamber of Commerce and kronehit, the “Krone” has stimulated the talent turbo with the campaign “Student seeks apprentice” and had hundreds of students present their company via video. After the online vote at krone.at, it’s now time for the final: our reporter Sarah Jahn was on site with the ten companies that our readers voted in the top 10. Today she is at Geberit, where Patricia presents her company and internship.
Patricia is 24 years old and completed her training as a logistics employee at Geberit Produktions GmbH & Co KG cum laude in April. With krone.tv reporter Sarah Jahn, she gives us exciting insights into her apprenticeship and her work – and explains what an apprenticeship at the sanitation company has to offer.
“Just incredibly diverse”
What did Patricia particularly like about her internship? During our visit, the 24-year-old said of her company that the logistics are “just incredibly varied”. In the beginning, as an apprentice, you don’t even know “how extensive it all is, from goods receipt to storage and dispatch of goods with customs matters,” says Patricia, who describes the job as “hugely extensive”.
What does a typical working day look like for Patricia? The 24-year-old emphasizes that the internship at Geberit is “absolutely varied”. “We learn everything”, she sums up a long list of activities: receiving goods, checking goods, “and how the goods then return to us in the logistics”, pick-up and pick-up, picking, shipping and customs paperwork.
Many benefits and a “super” working atmosphere
Why did you decide to do an internship? That turned out “excellent” for her; because she worked in the company before her internship. Because Geberit was looking for a logistics apprentice at the time, it “simply fit”, as Patricia explains in an interview with Sarah Jahn and also mentions the great benefits that Geberit interns enjoy, including the snack money, the many excursions or for example excursions to other companies.
The working atmosphere in the company is also “super”, adds the 24-year-old, who feels “very comfortable” here. Our reporter, on the other hand, does not feel very comfortable at first when she is given the unique opportunity to drive a so-called pick truck during a tour of Geberit’s logistics department. But after a brief initial nervousness, Sarah Jahn does the job quite well – and doesn’t walk over Patricia’s feet, as feared.
“Very, very broad spectrum of responsibility”
What we could clearly see during our visit to Geberit: The logistics trainees have a “very, very wide range of responsibilities” in the company, as Thomas Bugl, head of forwarding/goods receiving and warehouse, explains to us. The trainees can develop independently, learn to take responsibility and gain insight into the work of managers and all distribution processes, from goods receipt to shipping and customs technology to the type of storage and warehousing activities, says Thomas Burgl. EDP work is also not neglected and offers further opportunities for further development.
On average, Geberit has had 4-6 apprentices in logistics over the past few years and that number has now risen to 10, so we finally hear from Franz Mann, the head of the planning/order centre. At the end of our visit, he points out: “Students are more important than ever today”.
Source: Krone
I’m Ben Stock, a journalist and author at Today Times Live. I specialize in economic news and have been working in the news industry for over five years. My experience spans from local journalism to international business reporting. In my career I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the world’s leading economists and financial experts, giving me an insight into global trends that is unique among journalists.
