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The Young Talent Kickoff 2025 brought our young talents from all over Germany together in Bad Hersfeld for two intensive days full of inspiration, encounters, and shared experiences. A total of 99 participants made the kickoff a real experience—including 57 trainees, 18 dual students, regional training managers, and dedicated trainers. A colorful mix of fresh perspectives, experience, and lots of motivation!

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Got your school-leaving qualifications in the bag? Or almost there? Are you wondering what to do next? Then you’re in the right place! Each year, around 80 trainees join GLS in the courier, express and parcel sector (CEP for short). Why choose GLS? It’s simple! We offer diverse prospects and numerous career paths. Whether office management, IT or logistics, you’ll be sure to get top-qualitytraining in a dynamic, future-oriented market.

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Your path

• Requirement: good secondary school grades / Entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences / High school diploma (Abitur), for some, a secondary school leaving certificate is enough
• Duration: 3 years
• Locations: Headquarters in Neuenstein or various locations around Germany

What you'll do: As an office all-rounder, you’ll ensure that everything runs smoothly, whether it be in accounting or purchasing, route support or customer services, in communication or marketing. You have everything under control in the office world. Whether it's presentations, planning or calculations.

What you'll learn: All about accounting, sales and marketing, personnel and quality management plus service and organisation.

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What you'll do: Good planning is everything! As an organisational wizard, you’ll oversee the delivery routes, mode of transport and personnel planning. Communicating our services and offers to customers is no problem for you!

What you'll learn: Everything about accounting, customer service, route management, scheduling, marketing, sales, personnel and quality management

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What you'll do: Amongst the action, not on the sidelines! You are an expert in operations. Processing shipping requests, creating quotes and customer relations are your world. Best of all, you can become a CEP merchant by staying on for an additional year.

What you'll learn: All about deliveries and the fundamentals of commercial business processes.

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What you'll do: You’re in a league of your own when it comes to organising, monitoring and overseeing the entire logistics chain. You’ll keep track of everything from order acceptance to parcel sorting, storage and delivery.

What you'll learn: Everything about accounting, sales, personnel and quality management, route planning, scheduling, service and organisation.

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What you'll do: Chaos doesn’t stand a chance with you around! After all, your mission is clear: as a warehouse expert, you’re responsible for everything running smoothly in the halls from parcel storage to customer contact.

What you'll learn: Everything about logistics processes such as the correct loading and unloading of lorries, parcel storage, scheduling and customer service.

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What you'll do: There’s nothing you won’t find a solution for! At least when it comes to application development. You’re right at home with IT and programming language. This naturally also includes software planning, development and testing.

What you'll learn: Everything about system architecture, hardware and software, programming techniques and customer-specific information and communication solutions.

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What you'll do: Your IT skills are your superpower! You master complex IT systems as well as hardware and software issues with ease. As an IT specialist, you’ll be an internal service provider and oversee all IT systems from planning to administration.

What you'll learn: Everything about system architecture, hardware and software, programming techniques and customer-specific information and communication solutions.

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Our comprehensive package for you

We value your commitment and motivation Together with our first-class training and all the extras, it’s an unbeatable combination.

Exciting seminars and training courses

Attractive bonuses for good performance

Interesting development opportunities

Annually increasing salary

Cool team events and apprentice trip

Book costs covered

ADAC driver safety training

Assistance with travel costs to vocational college

Extras may vary according to location.

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Do you know the way to the coffee machine in your sleep? Not with us! You’ll be involved right from the start, not just on the sidelines! Exciting tasks, plenty of diversity and a large network await you. Successful onboarding is naturally included: Your team is looking forward to meeting you and will make sure you quickly find your feet.

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One thing is certain: we train people for our company. Did you enjoy your apprenticeship and performed well? We’re happy to hear that! In that case, you’ll have a good chance of a permanent job with great prospects, in an industry with a bright future. Alternatively, you might stay with us as part of a dual study course.

The best of both worlds

Finished your A-levels and want to stand on your own two feet right away? We can make it happen! With an integrated degree programme at GLS, you combine student life with practical know-how in an exciting future industry. You’ll soon realise that there’s more to logistics than just transporting goods from A to B.

Whether in the office, in IT or in the middle of the action in our depots: With us, you'll be right in the middle of it all from day one!

Integrated degree programme

Your path

• Requirement: upper level secondary school leaving certificate or A-levels (‘Abitur’)
• Duration: 6 semesters
• Locations: Headquarters in Neuenstein in East Hesse or Germany-wide in one of our six regions
• Degree course: Fulda University of Applied Sciences
• Degree: Bachelor of Arts

What you’ll get up to: We will make you a qualified all-rounder in logistics management. During your dual study program, you will get to know all areas of logistics - from organization and processing to quality control. You manage the logistics world and drive it forward.

Your job: Everything to do with the complex and international transport chain. You’ll analyse current challenges in the industry and help to develop innovative corporate strategies. You’ll get to know lots of different departments and be on site.

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What you’ll get up to: You don't know whether you would rather do IT or business studies? Then simply combine the two. As a mediator between business and IT, you digitize administrative processes with the right software solution.

Your job: During your integrated degree programme, you’ll get to know various departments: you’ll spend time in both IT and those departments that want to simplify and improve their processes through IT. The advantage for you is that you can combine both and find out which you prefer.

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What you’ll get up to: IT and the practical implementation in the company are your thing! You analyze and optimize complex information and goods flows that form the interface between the departments, management and users.

Your job: Everything to do with planning and developing information and communications systems in the company and for customers. You’re also responsible for implementing technical solutions, system maintenance and user training. You’ll mainly support the GLS IT departments.

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Our comprehensive package for you

We value your commitment and motivation Together with our first-class training and all the extras, it’s an unbeatable combination.

Exciting seminars and training courses

Book costs covered

Attractive bonuses for good performance

Cool team events and apprentice trip

Interesting development opportunities

Attractive salary

ADAC driver safety training

Employees talking to each other in the open office space

It's all in the mix: Through the combination of theory and practice, you can put what you have learned into practice directly. You are quickly trained and given your own projects. A contact person is always available to support you and help you with questions about your studies. In addition, many great colleagues and a fixed salary await you.

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Good prospects: More and more parcels are on the way. State-of-the-art digital technologies are being used. Logistics is a fast-growing industry of the future. Smart and energetic young talents have the best career opportunities in this environment. We support you individually so that you can develop your full potential. After your studies, we will work together to find the best way for you to join our company.

Your school days are slowly coming to an end. And you’re wondering: what job am I interested in? What career would suit me? We’ll help you answer these questions. An internship at GLS gives you an insight into the world of logistics. Together, we’ll discover if a job in parcel logistics is right for you.

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Internship for school pupils

Your path

• Requirement: school pupil
• Duration: 1-3 weeks
• Locations: Headquarters in Neuenstein in East Hesse or various sites around Germany

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Internship for technical school pupils

What you’ll get up to

You’ve got your secondary school leaving certificate and want a bit more? Then start a one-year compulsory paid internship with us. During this time, you’ll be part of a team that’s looking forward to getting to know you. It won’t be long before you’re taking on your first independent tasks and, just like our apprentices, you’ll work your way through our various departments.

Your path
• Requirement: pupil at a technical secondary school
• Duration: 1 year starting on 1 August
• Locations: Headquarters in Neuenstein in East Hesse or various sites around Germany

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