IWN owner Mr Reinhold Schulte, and training manager Mr Holger Popp, congratulated the newly-qualified tradesmen yesterday officially on their very good exam achievements. The staff members Bainbridge, Ersoy and Reger are the first trainees with IWN who have finished their examinations as an operational assignment from their department.
With this exam variation, the potential cutting machine operators must work on a complete manufacturing order and document this with practical and pertinent documents. The examiners then discuss the assignment with the apprentices on the basis of these documents, and evaluate their performance.
“With this form of assignment examination, the examinees must not only know what they have to do – they must also be able to communicate it precisely”, explains the training officer Mr Holger Popp and continues “for this reason we support our trainees intensely, with the aim of building their self-confidence improving their communication skills, and encouraging them to to be innovative. Therefore, we allow all our trainees to act as career role models for the Chamber of Commerce and thus to visit local schools, to promote the apprenticeship schemes for machine operators. We also employ these young workers at Job Fairs as communicators, so that they can inspire school children and students for this attractive occupation and so that they can develop her own presentation abilities.”
“I am looking forward to working together with these men during the next years. A professional life involves constant learning, and their development is not over, at this stage, by a long shot. The doors for a successful career with IWN are open to them”, according to the General Manager, Mr Reinhold Schulte.
All former apprentices have been taken over by IWN after their training in full-time salaried employment. “It is a pleasure for me that the three newly qualified workers have decided on different main focuses. In this manner we could cover our personnel requirements in the Grinding Shop, the Milling Shop, and with the so-called Swiss-type lathes (machines with a sliding headstock), with competent and enthusiastic young men from our own ranks” added Mr Schulte.
