noun
apprenticeship position, training position
B1
Lehrstelle: apprenticeship position; also training position. It's a feminine noun (die Lehrstelle) with plural Lehrstellen. Refers to vocational training posts for apprentices (Ausbildung). Regular declension. Often used with verbs like 'sich bewerben um eine Lehrstelle' (note the preposition um with bewerben).
Examples
Die Agentur vermittelte die Lehrstelle, nachdem viele Bewerbungen eingingen.
The agency filled the apprenticeship position after many applications came in.
Sie hat eine Lehrstelle in einer Bäckerei gefunden.
She found an apprenticeship position at a bakery.
Er hat eine Lehrstelle als Mechatroniker gefunden.
He found an apprenticeship as a mechatronics technician.
Details
Mnemonics
Visualize a help-wanted sign that says 'Lehrstelle frei' in a shop window.
Lehrstelle — think 'learn-stall' (a place to learn) to recall it's a place/position for training.
die (feminine) — remember 'die Lehrstelle' as the available position for apprentices.
Notes
Lehrstelle commonly refers to a concrete offered position for vocational training (an opening for an apprentice). The term is frequently used in job listings.