Making a career in logistics
2nd Dachser careers day draws more than 100 participants
On 4 November, Dachser held its second careers day at the company’s head office in Kempten. More than 100 students and young professionals from all over Germany took part in the event.
“The future belongs to you!” Bernhard Simon, head of the Dachser management board, told the students in his lecture. “The more deeply global markets become integrated across national borders, the more important intelligently managed international supply chains will become. This will be the golden hour for highly-qualified logistics specialists.”
The keynote speech held by Prof. Dr-Ing. Thomas Wimmer, chairman of the executive board of the Bundesvereinigung Logistik e.V. (German Logistics Association), on career opportunities in logistics, also met with much interest. “With 2.8 million employees and annual revenue of 220 billion euros, the industry is the third-largest sector of the German economy and offers qualified candidates excellent opportunities,” Wimmer said in his speech.
The subsequent panel discussion enlarged on this topic and offered the audience valuable tips about career opportunities and the demands employers place on graduates. In addition to Wimmer and Simon, members of the panel included Gerd Hailfinger, managing director of
Geberit Logistik GmbH and Prof. Dr Armin Schwolgin from the Cooperative State University of Baden-Württemberg in Lörrach, with deputy editor-in-chief of the Munich-based weekly magazine VerkehrsRundschau, Andre Kranke, taking the chair.
Making a career in logistics
Award ceremony for “Logistics Masters” competition
Towards the end of the event, prizes were also presented to the winners of Germany’s biggest competition for logistics students, the “Logistics Masters”. The contest is initiated by Dachser and the weekly magazine, VerkehrsRundschau. This year over 1,000 students from more than 120 universities took part. The first prize went to André Viehweger from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Stefan Kaufhold, also from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, came second and Timm Weber studying Business IT at the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster took home third prize.
Making a career in logistics
Job exchange with partner companies
As part of the careers day, “career point” offered participants a point of contact to Dachser and exhibiting partner companies including AEB, Bongrain Edelweiss, Bosch, the German Logistics Association BVL, Hartmann, Moderatorenschule München (Munich Presentation Training School), Plansee and Springer Fachmedien München, which offered entry-level positions, traineeships and work experience as well as subjects for bachelor and master theses. Dachser also ran an application dossier check.
