After a long break, introductory tours to Zaporizhstal for vocational students have been resumed.

There are many ways to unlock the potential of young people at industrial sites: at Zaporizhstal, such opportunities are an integral part of the company's HR policy.

Pupils or students can undertake paid internships at the works, take part in educational programmes and projects, and there is a special internship and adaptation programme for young professionals.

Future students are also introduced to large-scale production through excursions. And recently, for the first time since the start of the full-scale war, students of the metallurgical college went on an introductory tour of Zaporizhstal.

The first thing the future specialists saw was the company's central control room. Information about all production processes is updated on the screens every 5 seconds.

The next stop is the steelmaking shop at Zaporizhstal, where Zaporizhzhia steel has been produced for 90 years. The tour ended in the cold rolling shop near the continuous pickling unit.

"The enterprise is huge, there are a lot of complex production processes going on at the same time, and it is very exciting. I was most impressed by the steel casting process – how it is poured into the moulds, how it hardens. It was very interesting to see all this with my own eyes," says Oleksandr MULENKO, a student of Zaporizhzhia Metallurgical College.

Everything they have seen and heard about the enterprise's operations should help educate future metallurgists, the lecturer said.

"This is very useful because, since the coronavirus pandemic, children have been studying remotely, most of the time online. So, they really miss live meetings. And the tour is an ideal way to unite young people, to make them interested in the processes they hear about in lectures and to realize how it all works in practice," said Yuriy KOBRIN, a lecturer at Zaporizhzhia Metallurgical College.