RoboJob gets teachers and VOKA members on the floor

In the coming weeks, RoboJob will be receiving a lot of visitors, and not the type of visitors you would expect. This week and next week events will be organized for teachers and members of VOKA.

This time it is not machine builders, equipment manufacturers or suppliers that you will encounter at RoboJob, but rather teachers and entrepreneurs from the Kempen region. This has everything to do with the role RoboJob wants to play in making technical professions attractive again, says CEO Helmut De Roovere: "Right from the start, with RoboJob, we want to do our part to ensure that our industry once again becomes attractive to young talent. We do this not only by having boring, physical work taken over by a robot, but also by teaching our teachers away from our company and into the manufacturing industry."

After all, this week workshops organized for Primary and Upper Secondary School teachers. Not only will they learn about the company and the robots, but they will also attend workshops at RoboJob that will teach them how to get their students excited about technical education again.  "So we start at the source," De Roovere said.  "If we want to increase the influx of young talent into our industry, we need to start it at an early age. By opening our doors to the teachers of these young people, we hope to draw these teachers into our story. It would be great if in a few years they hear that their former students have gone on to work in the manufacturing industry!"

Retrieved from November 14 it is then the turn of the members of VOKA Local South Kempen. They too are warmly received at RoboJob for the monthly company visit and networking event.  "In fact, these entrepreneurs are all ambassadors for our region, and so we are very happy to welcome them as well."

RoboJob builds robotization for the manufacturing industry. The company was founded by Helmut De Roovere and Luc De Ceuster in 2007. Today, RoboJob employs more than 60 people and operates throughout Western Europe.