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The Girlsday was celebrated on April 22nd with over 9500 events nationwide. In the Kyffhauserkreis district, ten companies with 157 seats participated in the action. Sondershausen (mxm). The Girlsday was celebrated on April 22nd with over 9500 events nationwide. In the Kyffhauserkreis district, offered equal to ten companies, you can be interested in girls for typical male professions, among them also the WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & co. KG, which already makes for the fifth time. On the site of Sondershausen, applicants in various occupations are currently sourced including machine / installation guides, technical artists and procedural mechanics. Accordingly, also the practical exercises and the tour by the company on these professional fields were laid out.

“And the interest was huge: equal to 27 instead of the announced 20 girls of grades 5 9 took the opportunity to try in the internationally operating industrial enterprises”. Girlsday-cooperation school is Franz mountain in Sondershausen rule school for years. But also students of RS Ebeleben and the European gymnasium Thale wanted to find out about the offered professional fields and the terms of the application. What makes attractive WAGO as a training company for girls? “Astrid Kaldeuer, human resources manager of the company, has a simple formula: you have here in the region vocational perspectives somewhere else so not provided they get an attractive payment”. The interest in technical professions has surged in the past decade. Although at the time of only twelve 74 trainees are the total girl, offers of the Girlsdays were very well put the courts weeks were taken in advance. Who is long term want to prepare for a training at a company like WAGO, can personal career guidance also an internship in the holiday season, campaigns Coordinator Kathrin Girlsday-Tavern for the young.

Not only the production plant and the modern apprentice workshop was of course besichtigt-the future trainees could even their technical Demonstrate skill. “Funftklasslerin Lea from Ebleben was after the exercises in the metal-working over their career sure: I’ll tool mechanic, this job is for me how”. One that has sought her chance in the company several years ago and used, is the 21 year old Maria snipe that 2008 has completed three years of training to the mechanics of the process and in the Wago family business has already taken its place. “” Thanks good notes and the necessary assertiveness Maria after the training was taken over and is visibly proud to be achieved a good degree in a typical man occupation “to have and have equal rights with the boys” to work. Also payment wrong about many of my friends envy me now”. WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & Co KG is an operating third generation family-owned company with headquarters in Minden/Westfalen independently on the market and among the international landmark suppliers of electrical connection and Automation technology. WAGO is world market leader in the field of spring clamp technology. Since 1990 the company also in the Thuringian Sondershausen produces, could create jobs since about 1100, made investments in multi-digit million and acts as the largest employer in Northern Thuringia, Germany. Text and images: Maxxomedia.PR