In conversation with Melissa Horchemer
The WISTA project manager wants to show young people career and academic opportunities in the natural sciences:
Coming from a non-academic family living in a socially disadvantaged area of Duisburg, Melissa Horchemer was far from predestined for a career in the STEM sector. Yet, this background didn’t hold her back—it inspired…
Searching for young talent at Knorr-Bremse Rail Vehicle Systems
How the Marzahn-based company recruits trainees:
Workers turned, milled, and filed for months to manufacture several 1930s replacement parts for a historical S-Bahn, Berlin’s long-standing rapid transit railway. Now restored, the train then took the apprentices of…
Substitution, not cancellation
The start-up LehrCraft wants to use its placement platform to help alleviate staff shortages in schools and reduce class cancellations:
“What do teachers and clouds have in common? The day improves when they go away.” Everybody knows these types of jokes. But what if teachers really go away and regular classes cannot be guaranteed? The reasons for the…
Building blocks for further training
The new WISTA Academy strives to facilitate access to talent and employee retention for companies:
To WISTA, commercial location development is more than plotting land, managing buildings and attracting businesses. It’s also about creating spaces for people to live and work—and to inspire them. After all, success…
Creative countermeasures
How the Marzahn-based family business LKM is tackling the search for skilled workers:
“Retirement looms,” says Kai Hessel. Almost one third of the workforce of LKM, a Berlin Marzahn-based family business, will enter retirement sooner or later and take its experience and knowledge with them. “It’s quite…
Breaking new ground
The Federal Employment Agency South Berlin and WISTA Management GmbH (WISTA) are initiating a network to secure skilled workers:
“The successful recruitment of skilled workers is the greatest bottleneck for economic growth at many companies. In some cases, the issue is now directly affecting the continued existence of a company,” says Cornelia…