Your start at VNR

The vocational school takes place two days a week. On the other three days, we will train you at the company. For the various apprenticeships, we work closely with vocational schools in Bonn, Cologne and Hennef.

Please use the careers portal for this. There, you can quickly and easily upload your documents.

You can apply for our apprenticeship positions any time in the year.

After first reviewing the application documents, we start our selection process with a telephone interview. This is followed by an invitation to an online assessment before the personal interview takes place. At present, these interviews are being conducted online if preferred. It lasts three hours and gives you the opportunity to get to know us as a training company and your future tasks better. You will also meet the different people who will accompany you during your training. If required, we also offer the option of a trial day.

As a group of companies, we plan for the long term with our trainees and are proud that we subsequently take on more than 90% of our trainees in a permanent entry-level position.

With us you have the opportunity to actively shape your apprenticeship. You can take on responsibility early on in different departments and contribute your own ideas in various apprenticeship projects.

In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a practical and future-oriented apprenticeship. We rely on individual support from more than 30 AEVO (Ordinance on Trainer Aptitude) trainers, and regular feedback and assessment meetings. In keeping with our motto, “Shared work, shared decisions, shared responsibility”, we integrate you into our work processes in the company from day one, and thus prepare you optimally for your final exam. In addition to exciting apprenticeship projects, you can benefit from our internal training opportunities and in-house classes. We offer our employees attractive employee discounts with various regional partners. In addition, we provide you with free fruit, vegetables and drinks. At the start, you will receive your own laptop and we will cover your costs for an apprentice train ticket – a good investment thanks to our convenient location near the train station.

The in-company training (IBU) takes place once a week for 1.5 hours and is compulsory for the 1st and 2nd years of training. This is where cross-publishing content is taught, e.g., regarding the publishers of specialist literature, our customer management, data protection, etc.

We have more than 30 trainers in the Group and at least as many training officers. In this way, we can ensure that every trainee in every department receives individual 1:1 support and training. By training our instructors and exchanging information with other training companies, we keep our knowledge here constantly up to date.