One could believe that there are numerous willing trainees for the upcoming school year: there's no conscription any longer and, as school has been shortened by one year, there are twice as many school leavers wanting to begin university studies. However, there aren't enough university places. Now, those who don't get a place might want to start an apprenticeship in the trading sector first. And all the graduates from Realschule (secondary education not qualifying for university) who are crowded out should be eager to get the remaining apprenticeship offers. Especially at Jarltech, where more than 90% of the trainees are offered an employment afterwards - some of them made an impressive career within the company.

Unfortunately, the chamber of commerce still forecasts that many places will stay vacant. Therefore, Jarltech will be pushing the communication: starting next week, we will advertise our apprenticeship places over the radio. We also need to make our offer more attractive. Although our trainees sometimes stay abroad at our various country offices for short periods of time, we plan to introduce this in our trainee programme. We will also organise English courses, because the average level of school leavers isn't nearly sufficient. Just raising the salaries for those who have high marks is not allowed, unfortunately ...