BECOME A FREIGHT FORWARDER TRAINEE AT HCS

Want to join the winning team? At HCS, as a freight forwarder, you get lots of responsibility from day 1 in a dynamic everyday life, in a youthful and international environment

The skilled forwarder is characterized by business acumen, vigor, efficiency, good customer advice and above all to be service-minded. As a freight forwarder in HCS is your universe dynamic and takes place in an international environment with contact to many countries. Basically, it is about providing your clients the best deals at the best price and earns its money by taking advantage of logistics capacity to the limit. In this way, as a freight forwarder, you help to make a difference to the environment, by ensuring the best possible use of resources by minimizing the environmental impact of the global exchange of goods.

This is how it is to be a trainee in HCS

Jesper - Freight forwarder, former trainee at HCS:

"My name is Jesper Sortsø. I have been with HCS for 4½ years. For the first 2 years I was a freight forwarder trainee. If you like tight deadlines, lots of responsibility and excellent potential for advancement, the freight forwarding business would appeal to you, and HCS can offer all of this.

One of the most positive features of my period as a trainee at HCS was all the different things I tried, such as settling with customers and hauliers, allocating vehicles (arranging logistics), switching departments and thus gaining an insight into the different modes of transport.

Now I have been trained for 2½ years and I still have a very positive attitude towards my workplace. It's probably because I feel a sense of freedom with responsibility. I am part of a team where we arrange our own working conditions. We have our own customers. We visit our customers and we generally organize our own working day.

I would say that if you are young and independent, if you have the confidence to express your opinion and are not afraid to be creative, then you should become a trainee freight forwarder with HCS. There's a good chance you will enjoy going to work just as much as I do."

What you get as a freight forwarder trainee

You will get a really good apprenticeship with good opportunities to influence your own career. We start with a thorough introduction programme which, together with the school curriculum, provides a solid basis for continuing the process.

Your apprenticeship will provide you with an insight into the planning, organization, management and sale of international transport services and the opportunity to specialize in the area that interests you most.

We can guarantee you a hectic but exciting day at our headquarters in Glostrup. We expect you to have a clear, professional attitude to effort and work discipline, so that you are quickly ready to have your own areas of work and responsibility and so that you can participate in resolving our daily tasks. At HCS A/S, the responsibilities are matched by the challenges and opportunities.

We expect you to have completed a Higher Commercial Examination (HHX), HG2 or HGS exam with a good result. You speak and write fluent Danish and have good knowledge of English and German. You understand the Scandinavian languages, you have a flair for numbers and you are familiar with the MS Office package at user level. You must have some goals and desires for the future that you are not afraid to work to achieve.

We emphasise that you: