What is Wonsild Copenhagen looking for when taking in Trainees?

The candidate shall, as a minimum, have a high-school diploma/baccalaureate or similar, with good mathematic skills and mastering the English language.

On par with academic qualification, Wonsild puts emphasis on interpersonal skills, flexibility and an ability to think “out of the box”.

The applicant must be an EU-citizen.

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What is Wonsild Copenhagen offering?

A Shipping Trainee at Wonsild will, over a two year period, receive an exciting thorough theoretical and practical training in international shipping.

A current Wonsild Trainee writes:

"Being a shipping trainee with Wonsild you can be certain you will get a good education. You will have motivated and experienced leaders around you and are assured to get a good insight in the shipping industry.

Being a trainee in the Wonsild DRY department you will learn how to- and how DRY commodities (fx. sugar, coal and grains) are dealt with. During your traineeship you will both be a part of our operations team, handling the deals fixed by the chartering department, making sure that everything happens according to the agreement on the ships voyage from A to B. You will also become a part of our chartering team where you will learn great knowledge about negotiation techniques and serving your clients in the best way.

If you show a will to learn and engagement in your position you can take great responsibility and learn how to work independently. There are always people around you to consult and answer your questions, you never feel left alone.

What is most important is that you show commitment, are dynamic and eager - how you want to develop is more or less up to yourself: responsibility is taken, not given and if you understand and exploit that, you will be able to suck in great knowledge about the business during the two years of traineeship.

All employees at Wonsild work in different ways but we do it as a unit, and even as a trainee you are a part of that unit. You are important and you become a part of a team where your colleagues rely on you to lift the tasks you are given, hence communication skills and ambitions are necessary and you have to be competitive and curious.

It is my personal perception that if you work hard you have the whole world in front of you. The shipping industry is a very international environment, and with Wonsild being located in both  Melbourne, Hong Kong and Stamford (New York) there are big opportunities to work globally.

Personally I worked two months in Hong Kong and have only gained experience from it; I met new people and was all of a sudden not on my home turf. Then the task is to adjust, put aside cultural differences and focus on what is important; to work, and to like doing it.

One thing I can say for sure is: Wonsild have helped me get a good education, if not I had the people around me that I have, I’m not sure if I would have felt as comfortable and skilled as I do now. You may think I’m coloured, but so would you be if you had taken your traineeship with Wonsild."

Tobias