The training consists of a theoretical as well as a practical part.
During the practical part you will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the different departments (Purchasing, Marketing, Sales, Accounting, Human Resources etc.) at Bartels-Langness. The department changes every six months.
The theoretical training takes place in a vocational school.
Furthermore, Bartels-Langness offers regular in-house lessons and product training, where the school education is deepened and topics are followed-up, in order to optimally prepare the apprentices for their final exams.
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 three years.
The first year will be spent in the central warehouse in Neumünster, where the Sales, Incoming Goods and Complaints departments are located, amongst others, as well as the meat centre. Here you will also become familiar with Bartels-Langness’ biannual client trade fairs.
The following two years are then spent within the central administration in Kiel, such as the Purchasing, Accounting and Marketing departments.

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 permanent position.
We intensively support motivated and committed employees through specific support programmes following their training, in order to provide them with an exciting career in our company.
We look forward hiring friendly, committed and team-minded employees.

Hello, my name is Sarah Rombkowsky and I am 19 years old. While I was at school I sometimes worked at the checkout at famila, in order to improve my pocket money a little bit. I learnt about Bartels-Langness through this job. I was certain that I wanted to start a proper training course and so I applied to Bartels-Langness relatively quickly. After a recruitment test and job interview I received the letter saying that I had been accepted.
Following my Abitur in June I began my training, which would last three years, on 1 August. There was an initial seminar over the first two days, during which we were given an understanding of the company. The apprentices started to get to know each other and, amongst other things, we were allowed to visit the meat production centre in Neumünster.
All apprentices come to Neumünster for their first year of training. The various departments there include Fruit and Vegetables, Complaints, Incoming Goods, the Meat Centre, the Vehicle Fleet and Sales.
After the initial seminar I immediately began in my first department, Sales. I was very satisfied working in this department and it was fun recording the clients' orders and helping them with their problems.
My co-trainees were also really nice people, who I quickly made friends with.
The second training year took place in Kiel, where you can be assigned to the Internal Auditing, Accounting, Marketing, MARKANT Management, famila Management, Routes, Purchasing, Production, EDP, Training or Technical departments.
Alongside education on the job there is, of course, also education at school. We had block instruction at Ludwig-Erhard-Schule, a vocational school in Kiel, with a total of seven blocks over three years. The modules taught here were Wholesale Business 1 (Special Economics), Wholesale Business 2 (International Economics), Commercial Management and Control (Accounting), English, Politics and Sports.
I can already say, after only a few months, that I chose the best apprenticeship for me, because Bartels-Langness looks after every trainee. On the one hand we’re taught about merchandise knowledge, letting us know more about the products that we sell, and on the other we get to know each other even better during in-house lessons and excursions.
Although we’re a large company, there is a sense of family, and I for my part, already feel like part of the family. So, definitely apply if you want a proper apprenticeship with good future prospects.

Hello, my name is Morten Boller.
Are you, like I was at the time, on the hunt for an interesting trained career which doesn’t lack in variety, with high chances of being accepted for a career after your training?
Do you think that such a career doesn't exist, that it's just wishful thinking?
Then read this text and be persuaded of the opposite.
It is a difficult but important life decision and should as such be well thought out, as the training generally lasts three years. It is however also possible to shorten this to two and a half years if you attain good results at the vocational school and there is a vacancy earlier. Thanks to the in-house lessons (which few other companies offer) the Bartels-Langness apprentices are constantly among the best in the class at the vocational school and are always well-prepared for the intermediate and final exams.
The training begins on 1 August, with the programme for the first two days being filled by an initial seminar at the Kiel Head Office. This event was useful, because all of the apprentices from all the different careers got to know each other there, learning a lot of new, interesting information about the company, which is steeped in history, and having some of their initial nervousness relieved.
We wholesale trainees then moved to our warehouse in Neumünster for a year, where each person passes through two departments, i.e. half a year per department. The departments found in Neumünster are: Sales, Fruit and Vegetables, Incoming Goods, Complaints, Vehicle Fleet and the Meat Centre. I was lucky to be able to gain my first professional experience in Incoming Goods and Sales, two very interesting and different departments.
The working day begins at 7am and finishes at 4pm, but the weekend begins on Friday at 12:45 pm. If you’ve been keeping count, the working week in Neumünster is 38.5 hours. It is the same in Kiel; however employees here enjoy flexible hours.
After the first year of training you return to Kiel for the next two years, at the Head Office in Alte Weide. The Purchasing, Marketing, Production, Internal Auditing, Accounting, Human Resources, Complaints Management, MARKANT Management, EDP, Publicity, famila Sales, Contracts/Insurance, Internal Audit/Organisation, Export and Technical departments are run here.
How much you earn is down to the wholesale/foreign trade tariffs, with additional holiday and Christmas bonuses at Bartels-Langness. You receive 30 days of holiday leave each year.
There is a merchandise knowledge session for us apprentices every two months, where various firms present their companies and we are given the chance to acquire broader expertise. This means that I could explain to you, for example, the interesting journey coffee or honey makes from being created to reaching our famila and MARKANT shelves.
Last but not least, the training excursions which are organised for us, for example to the Flensburger Brauerei or Rickertsen/Pfanner, show how much Bartels-Langness cares for us.
During the course of the apprenticeship trainees are required to keep a record book on activities/operating cycles in the different departments or on information gathered from the merchandise knowledge sessions. There should be 18 reports by the end of the apprenticeship.
Vocational teaching at the Ludwig-Erhard-Schule in Kiel takes place in blocks and lasts for around five to six weeks, with seven blocks in total during the training period. Here you will be taught the subjects of Economics and Social, Wholesale Business, Commercial Management and Control as well as in English, Physical Education and Politics. During the school period you can completely and utterly devote yourself to your studies and do not, as opposed to other companies, need to go to work after school.
Now it is up to you, whether you would like to become part of this “big family”!
Apply now, make a positive impression in the written recruitment test and interview and you will have a future in store for you like no other!
See you soon, hopefully!
Morten Boller