Transfer - Geis Group
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2 | editorial<br />
Dear readers,<br />
Our continued growth regularly presents us with new<br />
challenges. Thus, human resources development has<br />
become one of our most important strategic tasks.<br />
Demographic change in Germany means that people<br />
are having to work or want to work longer, while the<br />
number of young people available to start apprenticeships<br />
and degrees is decreasing. By the year 2035, according<br />
to calculations made by the Federal Ministry<br />
for Education and Research, there will be around one<br />
fifth fewer young people available to join the labour<br />
market.<br />
Youngsters who leave school at the age of 18 can also<br />
naturally join the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong> as the first step in a successful<br />
career. On 1 st August/September, for example,<br />
we greeted a total of 72 new trainees at our training<br />
sites throughout Germany. In September four vocational-college<br />
students also began working for <strong>Geis</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong> as the practical component of their courses.<br />
We are currently training a total of 189 young men<br />
and women, with the most popular apprenticeships<br />
being those for forwarding merchants, logistics executives,<br />
warehouse logistics specialists, clerks and qualified<br />
warehouse staff. At <strong>Geis</strong> they all receive practical,<br />
high-quality professional training that is personally<br />
overseen by a designated contact person. They also<br />
benefit, just like our employees, from the other training<br />
programmes that we offer.<br />
Our concept works well, as confirmed by the feedback<br />
we get from our trainees and external agencies. Two<br />
years ago at the “Bayerns Best 50” awards, for example,<br />
the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs awarded<br />
us one of the two special prizes for companies that<br />
provide large numbers of training opportunities. Such<br />
successes and also the outstanding achievements of<br />
our students (see also page 14) make us even more<br />
determined to expand our training programmes.<br />
Our aim with the training we provide is to fully meet<br />
the future needs of our customers and to offer them<br />
innovative and effective solutions. As usual, this edition<br />
of <strong>Transfer</strong> contains information on the services<br />
our staff currently provides customers and other news<br />
about the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong>. We hope you enjoy reading it!<br />
Qualified training<br />
This is naturally also something that the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong><br />
will have to deal with. After all, we now employ more<br />
than 3,600 employees at our network and logistics<br />
sites across Europe. Every single one of our employees<br />
– whether a warehouse worker in Germany, a<br />
truck driver in the Czech Republic or a site manager<br />
in Switzerland – has complex and sometimes highly<br />
differentiated tasks to fulfil. And in future there will<br />
be a whole new range of tasks to carry out.<br />
We therefore offer in collaboration with vocational<br />
colleges the possibility of completing academic training<br />
while working. For office-based employees, training<br />
is offered in IT, telephone communications and<br />
foreign languages. The standard training programme<br />
for drivers and warehouse employees includes practical<br />
training in load securing, dangerous goods handling,<br />
special packaging, etc. And in future these programmes<br />
will be expanded to reflect the ergonomic<br />
needs of older employees.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Hans-Georg <strong>Geis</strong> and Wolfgang <strong>Geis</strong>,<br />
Managing Partners of the <strong>Geis</strong> <strong>Group</strong>