Apprentice project: Pupils build a house
Business
The Lungau handicraft businesses are taking a new approach to recruiting apprentices. Pupils from the Tamsweger Polytechnic build a small house with complete equipment. The aim is for the students to get to know all the professional groups involved in the construction industry.
The idea for this came from a building contractor from St. Michael. Seven students from the Tamsweg Polytechnic are currently working on their house in the building yard of the Recon-Bau company in St. Michael im Lungau. With the so-called “apprentice house” the students have the opportunity to know all phases of a construction – from planning to completion. At the beginning of school, the pupils decided on a craft in which they work at home – this should help when choosing an apprenticeship.
21 trading companies are participating
21 Salzburg craft businesses support the project, which is the starting point of the Lungau managing director of the construction company Recon-Bau Mario Schitter: “On the one hand, we all have a shortage of skilled workers and it is wrong if you always look for the culprit in politics and everywhere. We are entrepreneurs and we have to make sure that we show people that working for us is good. And the second thing, I think the most beautiful and best thing is when you do what you love to do, but you can only do that once you’ve done it.”
Lungau apprenticeship project
The construction of the apprentice house is planned for the whole school year. Every Monday is a practical day on which the students try out their chosen profession, says Dieter Petzlberger, teacher at the Tamsweg Polytechnic: “For us, this project is really great and very unique, because our students can implement the knowledge they have already acquired on the construction site. But as you can see, how does it really work on the construction site?”
The apprentice house should be ready by June
Petzlberger added: “The students themselves decide is it the right thing for me? Is this the right job for me? Or should I somehow reorient myself differently?” The apprentice house should be ready in June and then set up in front of the polytechnic in Tamsweg.