The training consists of a theoretical as well as a practical part.
During operations you have the chance to run through the different departments in the warehouse area. Bartels-Langness additionally offers lessons on merchandise knowledge in order to deepen your knowledge on appropriate topics.
Theoretical aspects are taught in vocational school.
Apprentices receive 30 days of holiday leave.
The Training department will be on hand to provide help and advice throughout the course of training.

Duration:
The training begins on 1 August of each year and lasts for two years.
The entire duration of the practical training is spent in the central warehouse in Neumünster.
Here you progress through interesting departments such as Incoming Goods and the Recycling Centre and assume responsibility in fields of activity like warehouse maintenance and commissioning. After two years you are examined before the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Remuneration:
Apprentices are paid in accordance with the wholesale tariff. Bartels-Langness additionally pays holiday and Christmas bonuses. For current figures please contact our Training department.

Your prospects:
The future looks bright at Bartels-Langness. Good performance guarantees that you will be accepted for a position. We look forward hiring friendly, committed and team-minded employees.

Hello, my name is Dennis Riemer. In the following report I would like to talk about how I got a job at Bartels-Langness and what the career of warehouse specialist is like. A relative told me that I should apply to Bartels-Langness. After some time I received a phone call from the warehouse manager inviting me for an interview. I eagerly made my way to the central warehouse in Neumünster, where the storage and the various departments were shown and explained to me after a brief conversation. A work placement was offered to me afterwards, which I carried out during the winter holidays. I was shown how to commission, the tasks related to warehouse maintenance and how things are run in a warehouse. A few months after the work placement I was invited to Kiel for another interview at the Head Office. Here I presented myself to the Human Resources manager, with the training contract being sent to me shortly after the interview. I signed immediately. Everything was ready by 01 August 2006, when my training began with an initial two-day seminar allowing the apprentices to get to know each other. On the third day I set off to my workplace in the Neumünster central warehouse. It has already been almost one and a half years since I started with Bartels-Langness and I have acquired many different skills as a warehouse operator:

• Safely stacking goods onto pallets and rolling cages
• Controlling stocks at regular intervals
• Preparing goods for shipping (commissioning and labelling)
• Operating the forklift

Trainees go through various different areas in the central warehouse, such as Incoming Goods, the Recycling Centre and the “regular” storage area (dry food products). I have vocational school two days a week, where I am taught the theoretical portion of the training. Bartels-Langness offers merchandise knowledge lessons, where trainees are informed about products and their manufacture. In conclusion to my experience report I can only say that my training at Bartels-Langness has been real fun.

Hello, my name is Florian Sonnenberg. I will tell you here about how I came to work at Bartels-Langness and what the career of warehouse specialist involves. I had been looking for a job for some two to three months and had already been on the hunt for an apprenticeship for a long time. I had applied to many other firms in the warehouse field before, but I was always declined despite having already carried out a work placement. I had already given up hope for an apprenticeship. But then a friend of my parents recommended that I should apply to Bartels-Langness! I completed the application on the same evening and sent it off straight away. After a few weeks a received a phone call, inviting me to an interview in Neumünster.
Excited and delighted, I made my way to the interview at Bartels-Langness, where the warehouse manager greeted me warmly and took me into his office. After a very pleasant conversation we agreed on a two-week work placement. During this placement I was shown how to commission, the tasks of someone working in warehouse maintenance and other jobs which can come up in a warehouse. A few weeks after my work placement a letter invited me to Kiel for another interview at the Head Office, where I held a conversation with Mr Dinse (Human Resources manager). Some time later I was sent a letter from Bartels-Langness. I was on tenterhooks: had I been accepted or rejected? I opened it and was completely relieved: they’d said yes!
On 01 August 2007 the day finally came: The training began with an initial two-day seminar. On the third day I set off to my workplace in the Neumünster central warehouse. It has already been over four months since my first day at Bartels-Langness and I've already acquired many skills as a warehouse specialist, such as the safe stacking of goods onto pallets and rolling cages, the surveillance of stocks carried out at regular intervals, the preparation of goods for shipping (commissioning and labelling) and the operation of transport equipment (forklift). The warehouse is divided into different areas: Incoming Goods, the recycling centre, the vehicle fleet and “regular” storage operations. Here we make sure that not only do the goods reach the clients, but that they also are stored in the right location, that more goods are ordered afterwards and, of course, that their shelf life is long enough (best before date).
Once a week I am taught the theoretical part of the training in the vocational school, with Bartels-Langness also offering merchandise knowledge lessons, during which all trainees are informed about products and their manufacture.
Last but not least I can only say that I enjoy this training very much and that I'm looking forward to the next year!