With over 270 different apprenticeships on offer, West Brandenburg provides a wide range of training opportunities. According to the 2019 study ‘Evaluation of career guidance formats by pupils and companies in West Brandenburg’, many pupils in Brandenburg rate their prospects of shaping their own future in Brandenburg very highly.
Overall, apprentices in West Brandenburg are very satisfied with their training programmes. Companies in West Brandenburg have gone to great lengths to optimise apprenticeships and retain future skilled workers locally, very often continuing to employ them within the company.
It is not only the state capital, Potsdam, with its numerous educational and training institutions, that is attractive, but also smaller urban centres. Teltow, Ludwigsfelde and Oranienburg, with their dynamic surrounding areas, and towns such as Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg an der Havel, Neuruppin, Oranienburg and Bad Belzig offer great potential and good prospects for the future
Berufemarkt Westbrandenburg, Fair for Apprenticeships, Higher Education and Careers
The annual Berufemarkt Westbrandenburg fair in Brandenburg an der Havel always takes place in September and provides a good overview of the apprenticeship and higher education opportunities available in the West Brandenburg economic region.