Crime din­ner
Net­zw­erk­tr­e­f­fen Bre­genz

An ex­clu­sive chance for ca­reer plan­ning of­fered the al­ready 9th CHAN­CEN­LAND VO­RARL­BERG “Net­zw­erk­tr­e­f­fen” for stu­dents and com­pa­nies on 22.12.2022 in the work­shop stage of Kon­gresskul­tur Bre­genz. After the corona-in­duced two-year break, the in­ter­est in the un­usual event for­mat was all the greater: around 150 stu­dents and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of 23 Vo­rarl­berg com­pa­nies took part in the pre-Christ­mas net­work meet­ing, which has now be­come a tra­di­tion.

Spe­cial set­ting makes it eas­ier to es­tab­lish con­tacts

The an­nual Net­zw­erk­tr­e­f­fen in Bre­genz uniquely brings to­gether top com­pa­nies – from major in­ter­na­tional cor­po­ra­tions to SMEs – as well as tech­nol­ogy and busi­ness stu­dents from var­i­ous fields of study from and out­side the re­gion. Its spe­cial de­sign sets it apart from con­ven­tional ca­reer events: In a re­laxed at­mos­phere, in­for­ma­tion is pro­vided about the suc­cess­ful local econ­omy, the di­verse cor­po­rate land­scape and its rich ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties. The com­pa­nies rep­re­sented pre­sent the wide range of in­dus­tries in the state. From pack­ers and me­chan­i­cal en­gi­neers to elec­tron­ics and app de­vel­op­ers, every­thing is reg­u­larly on hand. What’s more, the net­work­ing event rein­vents it­self every year and makes it eas­ier to net­work and make con­tacts thanks to its play­ful ap­proach.

Pure thrills at the “Crime Din­ner”

The an­nu­ally chang­ing event motto en­sures fun, ex­cite­ment and lots of ac­tion. This year, every­thing re­volved around the theme of the de­tec­tive story. After the joint “culi­nario mor­tale”, the par­tic­i­pants had to ac­tively par­tic­i­pate in the in­ter­ac­tive crime rally. The task of the stu­dents, alias Top Agents, was to solve the crime cases in­di­vid­u­ally de­fined by the com­pa­nies. They cracked codes, in­ves­ti­gated clues, solved bank rob­beries and broke out of es­cape rooms. The event mot­toes open up a wide range of de­sign op­tions and bring the stu­dents into con­tact with the com­pany rep­re­sen­ta­tives and the com­pa­nies’ ac­tiv­i­ties and prod­ucts in a cre­ative way.

Ef­fec­tively com­mu­ni­cat­ing ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties

“The Net­zw­erk­tr­e­f­fen of­fers stu­dents a great deal of added value, as they get to know HR man­agers and, in some cases, man­ag­ing di­rec­tors per­son­ally and ex­change ideas with tech­ni­cians from the com­pa­nies. This gives the stu­dents a good first-hand in­sight, tells them about the broad ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties in the re­gion and gives them a di­rect con­tact within the com­pa­nies,” WISTO Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Jimmy Heinzl is con­vinced. “Vo­rarl­berg ur­gently needs skilled work­ers – we are mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to this. We often re­ceive pos­i­tive feed­back that com­pa­nies have been able to at­tract stu­dents for an in­tern­ship or final the­ses in the course of the net­work meet­ings. This in­creases the chances that they will re­turn or move to the re­gion per­ma­nently after grad­u­a­tion.”

Cu­rios­ity about 23 com­pa­nies

In one-minute short pre­sen­ta­tions by the com­pa­nies, there were crisp and en­ter­tain­ing in­sights into the “spy teams” (em­ploy­ees), “crime scenes” (com­pany lo­ca­tions) “, “in­ves­ti­ga­tion meth­ods” (com­pany ac­tiv­i­ties), “train­ing areas for spies” (job op­por­tu­ni­ties), “un­der­cover” ben­e­fits and “op­por­tu­ni­ties for ad­vance­ment to pro­fes­sional de­tec­tive” (fur­ther train­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties) as well as other spe­cial facts from the com­pa­nies. “We are pleased that this offer was so well re­ceived again this year on the part of the com­pa­nies as well as on the part of the stu­dents,” said Heinzl.

“SCALE-UP” – Ex­pan­sion of the range of ser­vices

The ini­tia­tive CHAN­CEN­LAND VO­RARL­BERG was launched 12 years ago. The goal was and is to com­mu­ni­cate Vo­rarl­berg as an at­trac­tive place to live and pur­sue a ca­reer and to sup­port com­pa­nies in the supra-re­gional re­cruit­ment of tech­ni­cal spe­cial­ists with a MINT focus. Now, as part of a “scale-up”, the offer will be strength­ened in the area of re­cruit­ing supra-re­gional stu­dents and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (incl. ad­ver­tis­ing line) as well as sup­ple­mented by an info point for im­mi­gra­tion top­ics and the proac­tive re­cruit­ment of high po­ten­tials. For an even stronger joint im­ple­men­ta­tion of the CHAN­CEN­LAND VO­RARL­BERG mea­sures, there is also the pos­si­bil­ity of a plat­form part­ner­ship since 2020.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies

Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner , Bach­mann elec­tronic, Bertsch Foodtec, BHM IN­GE­NIEURE, Collini, Dop­pel­mayr Seil­bah­nen, Dorner Elec­tronic, Fu­sonic, Gant­ner Elec­tronic, Gebrüder Weiss, Get­zner Tex­til, Grass, Hirschmann Au­to­mo­tive, Hypo Vo­rarl­berg Bank, ill­w­erke vkw, IMA Schelling, Julius Blum, Künz, Lieb­herr-Werk Nen­z­ing, Meus­burger Georg, OMI­CRON elec­tron­ics, Rhomberg Bau and Zum­to­bel Group.

Thanks to our spon­sors

Spe­cial thanks to our spon­sors. The win­ners were very happy about the prizes from Es­cap­e­r­oom Vo­rarl­berg – Ho­hen­ems and about the vouch­ers from the Deadly Din­ner at Thüringer­berg.

(c) Matthias Rhomberg | Alexan­dra Folie, WISTO