Frankfurt, July 2020: Anyone who successfully passes the TalentOrange programme selection process will begin a new phase as an international healthcare professional. In 2019, nurses from Namibia could apply for the first time. After a two-month lockdown in their home country, the 15 qualified candidates of the pilot course finally entered Germany and were warmly welcomed. The whole thing was recorded by Deutsche Weille (DW) - as a continuation of the TV report from Nambia in February 2020.
"After our first programme participants were determined in July last year, they took part in a seven-month intensive German language course at our cooperating language school in Namibia," reports Anna Beckman, TalentOrange's senior project manager. "From the personal job interviews, we could already see that this group was highly motivated and willing to learn. All of them grew up multilingual, some have a very good command of English and some also speak Afrikaans, which indicates a talent for learning a new language".
Despite the difficult conditions for teaching German due to the global pandemic, all of them passend their B2 exams. Already in February, the new employer, the University Hospital Düsseldorf (UKD), was able to convince itself of the linguistic progress of the pilot course. The team of Dr. med. Tilman Frank initiated the first meeting in southwest Africa between the candidates and the nursing directorate of the clinic. A journalist from Deutsche Welle (DW) in South Africa was present and reported - the article was subsequently published on DW channels, on Deutschlandfunkkultur as well as on WDR. A DW correspondent in Frankfurt documented the happy arrival - as part of a continuation of the programme on the channel.
"In TalentOrange GmbH we have found exactly the cooperative, professional partner we were looking for in the acquisition of nursing staff abroad. Together we can be proud of the more than 110 healthcare professionals currently recruited and their successful integration," stressed Torsten Rantzsch, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Nursing Directors of the UKD. After getting to know each other personally in the new employees' country of origin, the departure was already difficult. The great anticipation of the candidates' arrival and the start of their work now culminated in an almost familiar, cheerful welcome at Frankfurt Airport and then at the hospital in Düsseldorf - despite the mouth guard and minimum distance.
The company was founded in 2012 as Capitalent Medical by the medical doctor Tilman Frank in Frankfurt am Main. Graduates of renowned nursing universities from around ten countries, including Latin America, Southern Africa, South-East Asia dn Europe, can apply for the TalentOrange programm. The team enables the selected aTlents to take an intensive German course free of charge, supported by a monthly scholarship, at one of 16 language schools worldwide or at their own language school in Germany and then to find a suitable job at a German hospital.