"Vienna calling!"

Nancy Cabero Mencia, Kapsch TrafficCom Argentina, reports.

"My name is Nancy Cabero Mencia and I am from Argentina. I am working as an industrial designer, in charge of the Design Department, at Kapsch TrafficCom in Argentina. In 2008 I had the possibility to work at the Kapsch TrafficCom-Headquarters, in Vienna/Austria, for six months.

It was a very enriching job experience for me and I was able to acquire additional soft skills and business related expertise.
I met colleagues, with who I regularly worked by distance and established a more personal relationship with them. I was able to understand how my colleagues work, what their needs are and the connections and relations between the different departments within the company. I think all of this will help us to work more efficient in the future.

For me it was a very interesting experience, because I had the chance to live in another country with a different culture, to get to know other manners and to also find some similarities within those.

In my opinion these six months in Vienna were a very good possibility for me to interact with new people and a new culture, to practice and to improve my English. It's was a very interesting experience and I highly recommend it to everyone.
I really want to thank Kapsch for giving me this opportunity and experiencing Vienna!"
 

“I think an elk is licking me!”

Kapsch employee Alexander Leopold was a trainee in Sweden

Sweden is famous for its lakes and forests, smart houses and quality smørrebrød. And for its great opportunities for career advancement, at least if you are working as a trainee in the Kapsch Group. That was also the experience of Alexander Leopold, who had the good fortune that his career search took him to Sweden, as the first Kapsch trainee able to take up a placement abroad as part of his trainee programme.

“I started my career with Kapsch in January 2005 as a trainee. My first two placements were in TA Account with Kapsch CarrierCom and then with Kapsch CarrierCom Marketing, where amongst other things I was responsible for market research in the Utility Billing section. In January 2006 the programme then took me to Sweden for six months – as a trainee in the System Engineering Team for Kapsch TrafficCom AB in Jönköping. Here I was able to make contact with our Swedish colleagues very quickly. My job included working on evaluating the performance parameters for URUC - Urban Road User Charging. I felt very much at home in Sweden, and quickly got to love the country and the people. Cultural and linguistic differences and different customs enrich life and broaden our horizons; I can wholly recommend a stay abroad as part of a trainee programme. It was also great that I did so many things during my free time in Sweden; which was why I fell in love with the incredibly fascinating natural world of that country. I didn’t find it easy to leave Sweden in the summer of 2006. Back in Vienna, I started my last trainee placement, with the System Design & Test Team in the Shared Services Group for City Solutions at Kapsch TrafficCom. I have been able to contribute and implement the experiences gained in Jönköping, and the know-how I acquired there, in the team productively and in a success-oriented manner. I now have system responsibility for Urban Traffic Solutions in the System Engineering Road Department.”