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At a small construction company you can really be all-round

July 04, 2025
All-round maintenance and renovation employee (bol)

Lex van Mierlo

Former student All-round maintenance and renovation employee

The first two years of this program are spent learning the seven trades: carpentry, plastering, installation technology, electrical engineering, tiling, bricklaying, and painting. You'll intern at a construction company, where you can immediately apply most of these disciplines. You'll visit people in their homes to fix things up. That's a good fit, as you need to enjoy interacting with people.

In your third year, you'll also focus on entrepreneurship. That's a great prospect for the future: starting your own business. But it's better to gain your initial experience working with a boss. You can also use your skills in other areas. For example, you'll work with a few fellow students on the "klusbus" (job bus). This is an initiative of the school and the students where we do odd jobs for volunteer organizations.

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