Transfer - Geis Group
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14 | GeNeral NeWs<br />
“Exciting and practical”<br />
A sound apprenticeship opens up excellent career prospects for young people<br />
and ensures that companies such as <strong>Geis</strong> in future have access to the trained workers<br />
they need. Below we interview Bernhard Hofmann, Freight Forwarding Careers<br />
Training Manager in Bad Neustadt.<br />
Bernhard Hofmann isn’t<br />
just Freight Forwarding<br />
Careers Training Manager<br />
at <strong>Geis</strong>’ headquarters in<br />
Bad Neustadt.<br />
He is also in the process<br />
of qualifying to become<br />
a “certified professional<br />
trainer” with the<br />
Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Training involves three<br />
stages, and in March a jury<br />
of the Bavarian Vocational<br />
Academy awarded him<br />
the level 1 certificate.<br />
Now he is preparing for<br />
the second stage.<br />
mr hofmann, why would you recommend an apprenticeship<br />
at the geis group?<br />
Bernhard Hofmann: First of all, due to the wide range of apprenticeships<br />
we offer. We train people to become forwarding<br />
specialists, logistics service specialists, warehouse logistics specialists,<br />
clerks and IT officers, to name just a few. In each case,<br />
young trainees can look forward to diverse and qualified training.<br />
All our logistics and warehouse trainees, for example, regularly<br />
participate in central, all-day training sessions held in different<br />
locations. These cover topics such as sales/marketing, correct<br />
telephone manner and shipping insurance. Interaction and exchange<br />
between the trainees is also important to us.<br />
can you give us an example?<br />
Bernhard Hofmann: Just recently we invited first-year forwarding<br />
trainees from all the company sites to Nuremberg for a “Day By<br />
Trainees For Trainees”. They were taught among other things<br />
about combined road-and-rail transport at the container terminal<br />
at Nuremberg, and given the opportunity to see the loading and<br />
unloading of trailers and containers taking place live. The degree<br />
to which our trainees are motivated by such measures is reflected,<br />
for example, in their great performance in the “Best Apprentice”<br />
competition organized by the Verkehrsrundschau, the German<br />
freight transport and logistics magazine. Five of them were in<br />
the Top 100, and the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong> was ranked 7 th in the Top 50<br />
training companies.<br />
how many new trainees started working for the geis group<br />
at the beginning of this training year?<br />
Bernhard Hofmann: Once again we’ve managed to fill all our<br />
training courses in line with our requirements. In total 72 youngsters<br />
started apprenticeships at <strong>Geis</strong>’ and SDV <strong>Geis</strong>’ 18 training<br />
centres, and four students began studying at a vocational college<br />
or university.<br />
depending on the chosen profession, training lasts<br />
two to three years. what are the chances of being taken<br />
on at the end?<br />
Bernhard Hofmann: Basically our goal is to take on every trainee<br />
once they’ve qualified – especially if their performance has been<br />
outstanding. And it’s not just our traditional freight forwarding<br />
trainees that perform well. Katharina Hoch, for example, completed<br />
her office clerk apprenticeship this year with the highest<br />
possible score of 1.0, and was even awarded the Bavarian State<br />
Prize for her achievement.<br />
mr hofmann, thank you very much for talking to us.<br />
four new<br />
authorized<br />
SignatorieS<br />
At the end of September,<br />
four executives of the <strong>Geis</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong> were appointed<br />
authorized signatories.<br />
Hans-Wolfgang <strong>Geis</strong><br />
has been<br />
appointed<br />
a new<br />
authorized<br />
signatory of<br />
<strong>Geis</strong> Industrie-Service<br />
GmbH in Nuremberg. There<br />
he is jointly responsible for<br />
purchasing and controlling and<br />
is the site manager for the Gorenje<br />
and Taiyo Yuden projects.<br />
He joined the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong> 12<br />
years ago.<br />
Martin Vonderau<br />
has managed<br />
the <strong>Geis</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong>‘s<br />
Construction<br />
and Facility<br />
Management<br />
department<br />
for the past four years. The<br />
41-year-old architect has now<br />
been appointed an authorized<br />
signatory of Hans <strong>Geis</strong> GmbH<br />
+ Co.<br />
Dirk Steinkampf<br />
is National<br />
Forwarding<br />
Manager<br />
and a new<br />
authorized<br />
signatory of<br />
<strong>Geis</strong> Eurocargo<br />
GmbH + Co KG, Nuremberg.<br />
The 43-year-old joined the <strong>Geis</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong> more than 20 years ago.<br />
Erwin Kraus<br />
has also been<br />
appointed an<br />
authorized<br />
signatory of<br />
<strong>Geis</strong> Eurocargo<br />
GmbH + Co<br />
KG in<br />
Nuremberg. He joined the<br />
<strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong> 12 years ago and<br />
now heads the International<br />
Freight Forwarding division in<br />
Nuremberg.