Career.Tour Mainfranken: Students discover regional employers

Around 85 students from the universities in Würzburg and Schweinfurt took advantage of the latest Career.Tour Mainfranken the opportunity to look behind the scenes of regional employers and to establish and valuable contacts for their future career entry to make.

The Career.Tour is an established format of Region Mainfranken GmbH. Several times a year students visit students together companies in the region, gain insights into workflows, corporate culture and specific entry opportunities and can directly with employees into conversation engage. The goal is to young talents early on with employers from Mainfranken to connect.

Insights into two innovative companies

On the current tour, two exciting companies were on the program:

• ESN Technology Group

• GF Building Flow Solutions (formerly Uponor)

The participants gained on site insights into technologies, projects and work areas of the companies. In addition to company presentations the focus was above all on conversations with employees and executives at the center.

Many students took advantage of the opportunity to ask questions about internships, working student positions or about career entry to ask. Especially the direct exchange with the companies makes the special value of the Career.Tour stand out.

Bridge between studies and the working world

For many students is the career entry still far away – at the same time questions arise arise already early on questions about possible career paths. This is exactly where the format comes in: comes in: It creates a direct connection between university and business and shows what professional prospects the region offers.

Mainfranken is, with around 60,000 companies from a wide variety of industries, a strong economic region – from medium-sized industrial companies to internationally active companies.
The Career.Tour makes this diversity tangible for students.

Networking at the Christmas market

After the official program the the exchange continued in a relaxed atmosphere continued: Together the participants visited the participants the Christmas market in the Haßberge district.

Over mulled wine and regional specialties further further conversations between students, company representatives andrepresentatives as well as the organizing team. Especially this informal part of the tour often provides often the opportunity to deepen contacts to deepen and first professional networks to establish.

Conclusion

With around 85 participants, was the current Career.Tour once again a great success. The format shows how important personal encounters between students and companies are – and how much potential the the region Mainfranken holds.

The next Career.Tour is already in the planning stages.