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HBS is a medium-sized enterprise in the craft sector.
We make electric installations for industrial construction.
We have had outstanding experience with foreign apprentices…
…from Romania, Spain, and Hungary.
They have settled in well at the construction site.
They are also integrated in their local areas.
We have bought a residential building in Schleiz.
We are converting it into modern double and single rooms.
I share a double room with a German colleague…
…and we get on well.
We had many difficulties at first.
But today…
…we feel at home here in Germany.
Each of them experienced different problems during their apprenticeship.
So we hired three full-time instructors to work in the workshop.
We were there to help the apprentices almost 24/7.
They had difficulties wirh German documentation.
We had to help them set up medical insurance, open accounts, make contracts.
There is a lot to do, but you need to sort these things out.
You can't just suddenly say,
"I have 20 foreign apprentices, now just get on with it!"
Our prime goal was to make the people here feel as welcome as possible.
Then they wouldn't want to move back home.