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The job satisfaction I have at DSV is really unique
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From intern to Management Trainee to Manager Operations
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I immediately felt at home because everyone wanted to help me
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The atmosphere is always good and the work is very varied
Read Sten´s story
From graduation internship to Logistics Engineer to Data Engineer
Read Tycho´s story
A first job is a milestone in your life
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Be patient, have faith in yourself and success will follow
Read Patrick´s story
It is really never boring at DSV
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As long as you always stay close to yourself
Read Herman´s story
Brandon Jakobs, Freight Forwarder Assistant at DSV Road
Hello, my name is Brandon Jakobs. I am 20 years young and live in Swalmen. I completed the Manager Transport and Logistics course at the Gilde Opleidingen in Venlo. During my third year of study, I did a five-month internship in the Italy department. After this positive experience, I decided to do another internship at DSV in fourth year but in the Germany department. Here I started in June 2023 as a Freight Forwarder Assistant.

During the past year in the combination of internship and employment, I have been working in the dynamic Germany department where, as a team, we handle all export shipments to Germany and, of course, all import shipments or shipments within Germany. Having gone through different parts of the department, including groupage, import, central planning and freight forwarding, I am now back on import. Here, I mainly want to gain a lot of experience and knowledge, but my goal is to be able to grow into a Team Lead position within DSV.

Towards the end of my internship, I was approached by several logistics service providers to join them. These companies each had their advantages. However, DSV remained the first choice for me. Conviviality daily is important to me; colleagues make work fun; I was always told. So, this was the deciding factor for me in making my decision.

The job satisfaction I have at DSV is really unique and the opportunities for me are huge. The grass is not always greener next door.
It is worth much more to me that I can be myself and have fun with all colleagues within the company daily than not having that but getting better terms. DSV puts me in my power, lets me start the training within Young DSV in Denmark and offers me opportunities within all divisions. Of course, I also discussed the external offers with my manager who of his own accord rewarded my confidence in DSV. That is very nice but not the most important. The fact that I can work out for free every day here and enjoy my work very much is the most important thing.

Tycho de Carpentier, Data Engineer in DSV’s Solutions division

In 2015 I joined DSV Solutions through a graduation program and started my graduation internship of the Logistics Engineering program from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

After graduation, I started working as a Logistics Engineer at the Business Support department in Moerdijk. In the first years I was mainly busy with process improvements in the warehouse. This was very interesting because you spend a lot of time in the warehouse and talk to people who work with the goods. The nice thing about the Engineer role is that every day is different.

Since I wanted to develop myself more towards the IT side, I have been able to follow many courses and training courses in recent years. The activities also shifted more to making (data) analyzes and reports. In 2019 I came into contact with Power BI, a tool with which you can make interactive reports, through a course at BUas (Hogeschool Breda). This allows you to inform the end user, in all layers of the organization, in a professional and standardized manner so that they can make better decisions.

I have always experienced DSV as a good and flexible employer with great colleagues, where you as an employee have many opportunities to develop yourself.

Early 2020 I made the switch to Data Engineer in the national Operational Excellence team. My new position is a completely new role within DSV, where the exact details have not yet been determined, partly because the logistics world is constantly changing. Power BI continues to play an important role in this.

Herman Huijgens, Managing Director in DSV's Air & Sea division

It was September 1992, just after the completion of the building at Donker Duyvisweg 70 in Dordrecht, that Herman Huijgens started at the age of twenty-four as Inside Sales at Frans Maas / BVT (now DSV).

A period that was preceded by education at HAVO and, as Herman himself says, "I didn't know what I wanted to do so I thought I would work in the port of Rotterdam." While he thought he was going to drive a forklift and all that, it turned out that he had enrolled in the wrong education, namely a freight forwarder. It was then called the Port and Transport School Jan Backx, now Shipping and Transport College, which was a combination of working and learning. At the time, he did four of the five internships at DB Schenker, each time in a different department. They liked it, but Herman certainly did too. He learned a lot, but now it was time to grow into his first real job.

Do you know what I mean?
His first job was as a Freight Forwarder at Panalpina in the Waalhaven in Rotterdam, where he had a great time. Until the office had to be moved to Amsterdam, which meant more travel time, after which, after a phone call from his former sales manager who already worked at Frans Maas, he switched to Frans Maas as Inside Sales. Making appointments for the field service all day long and constantly making quotes which he liked but he wanted to go back to the operations. Even more customer contact and handling all files where he grew to Manager Import and Export at the USA-department to grow to Operations Manager. A wonderful position, but then DFDS came in 2006 and a great development started for him. One day he was called into the office of Edwin Koopman (then Managing Director) and asked if he wanted to become Branch Manager of the DFDS office in Dordrecht? As the contact between him and the colleagues on the floor felt and still feels good, he grew naturally towards this new challenge.

Because if you can explain what you mean, communicate it well with respect for each other's points of view and dare to make decisions, then everyone knows where they stand, and you do it together.

Dealing with people can’t be learned from a book

Herman is by nature good with people, which has always been the key to his functioning. Back in 2006 he did not have a HR Manager in Dordrecht, for example. That was a role he himself performed as a Branch Manager as part of his responsibility. A role that naturally suits him well. So either you look for the right people to do it for you, but as long as you do it from your own nature, you can do it yourself.

He has learned something different from all the various Managing Directors with whom Herman has worked over the years. One more operational, the other more strategic, but they all taught him to work hard with an eye for people. He passes on these experiences to his teams, averse to politics, but finds casualness and humour extremely important. He always wants to fully value his teams in order to allow them to function and perform optimally. Or as he says himself:

They don't get smarter from a tie. Use a tie functionally when you need it, but be yourself.
Herman has now been Managing Director of DSV Air & Sea Netherlands for over a year following the acquisition of Panalpina. A position in which he succeeded Frank Sobotka. Together with his teams and the many new colleagues, Herman continues to build the development of the company through hard and good work every day after 28 years with just as much fun as on the first day. And of course, we make mistakes, but we solve them. Just to be and stay the best together.

Patrick van Ulft, Managing Director in DSV's Road division

When I opted for my education at the Transport Academy in Venlo in 1999, I had no ambition to enter the transport industry. Where a majority of my classmates gazed at DAF, Scania or Volvo trucks and had lively discussions about them, my interests lay in logistics, warehousing, waiting time theories, etc.

This changed when I started my graduation internship at Catom PDM in Breda. They supplied unmanned fuel stations and my job was to find a process and system that would ensure that this was done by the tankers in the most efficient way. This includes the maximum permitted amount of fuel per station, purchase quantities and location of the pumps (different rules and restrictions apply in a residential area than next to a motorway). My interest in transport was aroused and I liked it too. I graduated and was able to look for a job. Still with a preference for logistics, but I was now open to transport.

Registered at Via Logistics, I was invited for interviews at Océ and Frans Maas for the position of Logistics Engineer. As a recent graduate, I was considered unexperienced for both positions. Eventually I was called that they also had a vacancy as a Customer Service Employee at DFDS Transport (after a name change in 2007, this company is called DSV).

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