Twelve young people have started their vocational training at Stadtwerke Gießen AG (SWG) and eight young people are starting a training co-operation. Numerous applicants had applied for the training positions in the six professions. Linda Höfert and Lars Becker (industrial clerks), Tobias Milow and Jan Schmidt (electronics technicians for energy and building services engineering), Benjamin Jung and Sascha Handloser (electronics technicians for industrial engineering), Alexander Lawson and Raphaelo Pisker (plant mechanics), Lena Langnickel and Christopher Peucker (swimming pool specialists) Sandro Hölscher and Sebastian Breidenbach (car mechanics) are now starting their training. Manfred Siekmann, Chairman of the SWG Management Board, welcomed the trainees and their parents to the company's own training centre on the first day of their new careers. Dieter Hartmann welcomed the new recruits on behalf of the works council, while the two technical instructors Hagen Luh and Peter Zeizinger, swimming instructor Udo Handloser and commercial instructor and women's representative Ruth Biehl-Franze organised the rest of the day, giving the new trainees another opportunity to get to know the company and their contacts a week in advance. The "induction week" makes it easier for the former pupils to start their careers, provides information and is, of course, also fun. 35 young people are now undergoing training at SWG with the new trainees, plus eight trainees who are being trained in sub-areas on the basis of co-operation agreements with other training companies.