Vocational training

Hanover Region

Training ambassadors in the Hanover region and surrounding area

07.05.2024 - Career guidance at eye level - trainees inform pupils about their professions.

Our training ambassadors are young people who are currently completing vocational training. They inform pupils about their apprenticeship - with all the opportunities and possibilities, but also the challenges. The trainees are briefed in detail in advance and prepared for their assignments.

Interested schools and teachers can invite them to their lessons, to a training fair or to other career guidance events.

In line with the peerlearning concept, our training ambassadors are not just experts in their profession. They were recently faced with the question of choosing a career themselves and are therefore closer to the students' lives.

With their personal accounts of their motivation and career paths, they bring the students down to eye leveland encourage them to discuss career decisions.
They make it easier forthe students to ask their questions openly, can comment on prejudices, break down stereotypes and, as role models, encourage them to take their first steps into training.
Last but not least,they point out specific training opportunities inthe Hannover Region and canpass on their experienceof starting a career.

Note before use

We recommend a visit from training ambassadors from year 9 onwards, as part of careers guidance and during regular lessons. However, we are also happy to look at individual BO concepts together.

Beforehand, the responsible teacher should prepare the students for the exchange with the ambassadors (e.g. develop questions, determine occupational fields, collect ideas and prejudices) to enable the young people to participate.

A teacher must always be present during the event to ensure supervision.

Implementation

An ambassador assignment usually lasts 90 minutes, during which the trainees introduce the pupils to their training occupations.

This can take the form of conversations, PowerPoint presentations or small practical experiences, the choice is up to the ambassadors.

The process is therefore as varied as the professions themselves, so please get in touch with the contact person at the respective provider in advance for details.

Follow-up

For a sustainable and goal-oriented career orientation, the newly acquired information and knowledge about the different occupational fields should be reflected upon:

What did the pupils take away from the ambassadors' visit?
What qualities and requirements should you have for an apprenticeship?
Explain which professions would suit you or why not?

Maintain and use contacts: Point out to your students once again that they can use the contacts they have made with the training ambassadors for internships or apprenticeships in their companies or businesses.

Please also pass on the contact details of the organizing institution, we are always happy to answer any questions you may have on the subject of training.

Keep in touch with the organizers and pass on feedback and the results of the ambassadors' efforts!

Meet us at the Smart City Dayson May 08, 2024

If you are interested in using training ambassadors as part of your teaching, you can contact the institutions responsible for the respective occupational fields directly via the following institutions and contacts

Presentation of the institutions and professional fields

Hanover Chamber of Crafts

The Hannover Chamber of Skilled Crafts is a modern, efficient public corporation. It represents the interests of skilled crafts companies and their employees and trainees vis-à-vis politics, business, society and the public on the basis of its legal mandate from the Crafts Code.

In addition to representing interests, performing official tasks and providing training in the skilled trades, it offers its member companies a wide range of advisory and other services.

This also includes the topic of "recruiting young talent", including the use of training ambassadors from the areas:

Engines & Mobility
Colors, glass & ceramics
Electrical & Digitization
Metal & Machines
Food & drink
Water, climate & sustainability
People & Health
Construction, finishing & wood
Office & Order
Fashion & Styling
Music, image & media

Contact us

Leonie Wilkending

Training consultant, focus on "Recruiting young talent in the skilled trades"

Phone: 0511/34859 521

E-Mail:wilkending@hwk-hannover.de

Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce

The Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce represents the interests of the economy in its chamber district. It counts around 180,000 companies among its members and acts as an intermediary between the state and business.

Based on the Vocational Training Act, the IHK is the responsible body for all matters relating to vocational training, in particular examinations. Every training contract is registered in a register of vocational training relationships and the suitability of the training company and the trainer (in accordance with the Trainer Aptitude Ordinance) is checked upon registration. The IHK Hannover oversees around 27,000 training contracts in over 180 different training occupations.

Around 500,000 school leavers start an apprenticeship every year. At the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, you will find professions ranging fromAasin plant mechanic toIasin IT systems clerk orPasin pharmacist toZasin two-wheel mechatronics technician.

The IHK is the right contact for many other professions in the commercial, industrial, IT and retail sectors.

If you have questions about individual professions, you can find the right contact details here

Occupational fields

Electrical engineering
Metal processing and production
Laboratory professions
Chemical industry
Food production
Surveying
Textile
Creative professions
Production professions
Industrial-technical professions
Retail and office (commercial professions)
Banks/Insurance/Real Estate
Hotel/Gastronomy
Forwarding/logistics,
Transportation
IT/Media

Contact us

Frank Willmann
Phone: 0511 3107-4 81
E-mail: frank.willmann@hannover.ihk.de
Internet:www.hannover.ihk.de

Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture

The Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture (LWK) represents the professional interests of employers and employees in agriculture, forestry and horticulture. The most important tasks of the Chamber of Agriculture are to advise and provide training and further education for employers and employees in agriculture and forestry.

The LWK is the competent body for12green training occupations

farmer, gardener, housekeeper, agricultural service specialist, horse farmer, animal farmer, fish farmer, dairy technologist, dairy laboratory technician, forester, game hunter, plant technologist)."

Occupational fields: Professions in horticulture

Gardener for ornamental plants Gardener for fruit growing
Gardener perennial nursery
Nursery gardener
Gardener Vegetable Grower
Cemetery gardener
Gardener gardening and landscaping

Contact:

Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture
Horticulture Division
Department of Vocational Training in Horticulture
Heisterbergallee 12
30453 Hanover
Tel: 0511 4005 2406
E-Mail:celina-judith.teuner@lwk-niedersachsen.de

Project "VOCATIONS for life" (care and education)

The training ambassadors from the care and education professions are part of the "Careers for life" pilot project. The trainees are trained and are active with their presentations, experience reports and practical tasks, for example in BO lessons, in profile/compulsory elective courses at general education schools or at training fairs in the Hannover region.

The project is run by the association "Ausbildung im Verbund pro regio e.V.". The project is funded by the Hannover Region and the Hannover Employment Agency.

Occupational fields:

Care and education