BuB - Specialist Office and Book-Keeping

The project

“Specialist Office and Book-Keeping” is a project that is devoted to women and is specifically tailored to meet their needs. It belongs to a series of ESF-supported projects implemented in the Kolping Training Centre in Ravensburg for women each of which had very good placement results. Women seeking employment are to be encouraged to succeed finding a re-entry into a stable, secure and qualitative employment.

The concept for BuB was developed on the foundation of a job-market analysis of the region of Ravensburg. It shows that small and medium-sized enterprises are looking for “Allrounders” or “Generalists”, being able to work in almost every field of office work. This flexibility is to be reached by the Qualification. It is targeted at women seeking employment, those attempting return to the workplace and single mothers wishing to elevate existing knowledge to the current level in the profession.

The qualification is composed of 590 classroom hours and takes place in the form of a part-time package. (Thus it can be attended on the condition of childcare.) The contents of the courses are specific to the discipline and include elements such as basics in business administration, balances and annual accounting, personnel accounting and management of salaries and wages, law and small business start-ups. Intercultural communication is an important field including “English for the Office” and “intercultural competence”. These themes are augmented by classes in general as well as special computer applications, office management, goal and time management, teamwork as well as service and customer orientation. Additionally, job application training along with career planning is offered.

Due to the combination of the different subject matters the participants have the possibility to apply in different sectors of the labour market. It is our intention that this course will lead to placement results of at least 70%.

Kolping Training Centre
Ravensburg

Contact person
Angela Konrad-Mak, Head of Training Centre
angela.konrad-mak@kolping-bildungswerk.de

European Funding Programme
ESF Objective 2

Sum of Funding
25,763 €

Period of Funding
14.01.2008 – 18.07.2008

Financially supported by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of Baden-Wuerttemberg with funds of the European Social Fund.