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Hanover region

Vocational training

Training ambassadors in the Hanover region and surrounding area

December 3, 2025 - Career guidance at eye level - Trainees inform students about their professions.

Our training ambassadors are young people who are currently completing vocational training. They inform school students about their training profession – including all the opportunities and possibilities, but also the challenges. The trainees are briefed in detail in advance and prepared for their assignments.

Interested schools and teachers can invite them to lessons, training fairs, or other career orientation events.

In line with the peer learning concept, our training ambassadors are not only experts in their profession. They themselves were recently faced with the question of choosing a career and are therefore closer to the students' everyday lives.

With their personal accounts of their motivation and career paths, they engage with students on an equal footing and encourage them to think about their career choices.
They make it easier for students to ask questions openly, can address prejudices, break down stereotypes, and, as role models, encourage them to take their first steps into training.
Last but not least, they highlight specific training opportunities in the Hanover region and can share their experiences of starting a career.

Things to consider before the assignment

We recommend visits from training ambassadors from grade 9 onwards, as part of career orientation and during regular lessons. However, we are also happy to look for opportunities for individual career orientation concepts.

The teacher responsible should prepare the students for the exchange with the ambassadors in advance (e.g., prepare questions, determine career fields, collect ideas and prejudices) to enable the young people to participate.

A teacher must always be present during the event to ensure supervision.

Implementation

An ambassador assignment usually lasts 90 minutes, during which the trainees give the students an insight into their apprenticeship professions.

This can take the form of discussions, PowerPoint presentations, or short practical experiences; the choice is up to the ambassadors. The format is as varied as the professions themselves, so please contact the relevant providers in advance for details.

Follow-up

For sustainable and effective career guidance, the newly acquired information and knowledge about the various occupational fields should be reflected upon:

What did the students take away from the ambassadors' visit?
What qualities and requirements should you have for an apprenticeship?
Explain which professions would suit you and why, or why not.

Maintain and utilize contacts: Remind your students that they can use the contacts they have made with the training ambassadors for internship or training inquiries at their companies or businesses.

Feel free to pass on the contact details of the organizing institution; we are always happy to answer any questions you may have about training.

Please also stay in touch with the organizers and feel free to pass on feedback and results of the ambassadors' work!

If you are interested in using training ambassadors in your lessons, you can contact the institutions responsible for the respective occupational fields directly using the institutions and contacts listed below

Presentation of the institutions and occupational fields

Hanover Chamber of Crafts

The Hanover Chamber of Skilled Crafts is a modern, high-performing public-law corporation. Based on its statutory mandate under the Crafts and Trades Regulation Code, it represents the interests of skilled crafts businesses and their employees and trainees in dealings with politicians, business, society, and the public.

In addition to representing interests, performing sovereign tasks, and providing training in the skilled trades, it offers its member companies a wide range of consulting and other services.

This also includes the topic of "recruiting young talent," among other things, with the use of training ambassadors from the following areas:

Engines & Mobility
Paints, Glass & Ceramics
Electrical & Digitalization
Metal & Machinery
Food & Drink
Water, Climate & Sustainability
People & Health
Construction, finishing, and wood
Office & Organization
Fashion & styling
Music, Image & Media

Contact

Leonie Wilkending

Training consultant, specializing in "recruiting young talent in the skilled trades"

Tel.: 0511/34859 521

Email: wilkending@hwk-hannover.de

Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce

The Hanover Chamber of Industry and Commerce represents the interests of the business community in its chamber district. It has approximately 180,000 member companies and acts as an intermediary between the state and the business community.

Under the Vocational Training Act, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce is the competent authority for all matters relating to vocational training, in particular for examinations. Every training contract is registered in a directory of vocational training relationships, and upon registration, the suitability of the training company and the trainer (in accordance with the Trainer Aptitude Ordinance) is checked. The IHK Hannover oversees around 27,000 training relationships in over 180 different training occupations.

Around 500,000 school leavers start training every year. At the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, you will find professions from A for plant mechanic to I for IT systems clerk or P for pharmaceutical technician to Z for two-wheel mechatronics technician.

The Chamber of Industry and Commerce is the right point of contact for many other professions in the commercial sector, industry, IT, and trade.

If you have any questions about individual professions, you can find the relevant contact details here

Occupational fields

Electrical engineering
Metalworking and manufacturing
Laboratory professions
Chemical industry
Food production
Surveying
Textiles
Creative professions
Production professions
Industrial and technical professions
Retail and office (commercial professions)
Banking/insurance/real estate
Hotel/catering
Freight forwarding/logistics,
Transport
IT/media

Contact

Frank Willmann
Phone: 0511 3107-4 81
Email: frank.willmann@hannover.ihk.de
Website: www.hannover.ihk.de

Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture

The Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture (LWK) represents the professional interests of employers and employees in agriculture, forestry, and horticulture. The most important tasks of the Chamber of Agriculture are advising and providing training and further education for employers and employees in agriculture and forestry.

The LWK is the competent authority for 12 green apprenticeship occupations.

Farmer, gardener, housekeeper, agricultural service specialist, horse manager, animal manager, fish farmer, dairy technologist, dairy laboratory technician, forester, gamekeeper, plant technologist).

Occupational fields: Professions in horticulture

Gardener, ornamental plant cultivation Gardener, fruit cultivation
Perennial gardener
Nursery gardener
Gardener in vegetable cultivation
Gardener in cemetery gardening
Gardener in gardening and landscaping

Contact :

Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture
Horticulture Division
Horticultural Vocational Training Department
Heisterbergallee 12
30453 Hanover
Tel:
Mobile: 0151 75864722
Email: christine.hahne@lwk-niedersachsen.de

Project "BERUFE fürs Leben" (Care and Education)

The training ambassadors from nursing and education professions are part of the model project "Berufe fürs Leben" (Professions for Life). The trainees are trained and actively participate with their presentations, experience reports, and practical tasks, for example, in career orientation lessons, in profile/elective courses at general education schools, or at training fairs in the Hanover region.

The project is sponsored by the association "Ausbildung im Verbund pro regio e.V." (Training in the pro regio network). The project is funded by the Hanover region and the Hanover Employment Agency.

Occupational fields:

Care and education

Your contact:

pro regio e.V.

Project "BERUFE fürs Leben" (Care and education)

Sara Wehly (educational professions)
s.wehly@proregioev.de
Tel.:

Best Job Ever

At #bestjobever – let's talk live!, trainee talks have been bringing trainees and students together live since 2024. The trainees report on their profession, their everyday life at work, and their typical activities on site at a school in the Hanover region. Around 50 to 100 students take part in the event.

The students can ask questions and talk to the trainees. Afterwards, #bestjobever offers interesting hands-on activities, which the trainees themselves plan and carry out, to give students an even deeper insight into the various professions.

Further information about the project and insights from previous rounds can be found on our homepage: www.best-job-ever.de

The project is run by Handwerkskammer Hannover Projekt- und Servicegesellschaft mbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hanover Chamber of Crafts. It was founded in 2002 to develop, plan, and implement training and consulting projects. When implementing projects, PSG focuses on three key areas relating to the skilled labor situation: skilled workers of the future, skilled worker potential, and securing skilled workers.

The project is funded by the Hanover region and the Federal Employment Agency in Hanover.

Occupational fields:

All sectors

Contact

Hanover Chamber of Crafts Project and Service Company mbH
Seeweg 4
30827 Garbsen
www.hwk-psg.de

Alwina Bonnke
Tel.:
bestjobever@hwk-psg.de

The Hanover region is a strategic partner through its Department of Economic Affairs and Employment Promotion (
) and provides proportional funding for the project.