Our awards

The Deutsche Innovationsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung awarded Deutsche Telekom GmbH as "Arbeitgeber der Zukunft". The key factor here is our distinctive understanding of the needs of our customers and employees. In addition, the institute highlights our modern corporate culture, which is focused on innovation, and our management's commitment to digitization and sustainability.

Every year, university students vote for their ideal employers in the country's largest, most comprehensive and independent career related study – the Universum Talent Survey. This year we surveyed over 38,600 students in Germany and asked them to provide insight on company characteristics they find most attractive in a potential employer as well as who they perceive to be their ideal employer. Deutsche Telekom ranked as #25 amongst IT students, in this 2022 Germany's Most Attractive Employers ranking.

Telekom Karriere was awarded a fantastic 2nd place in the Potentialpark study Online Talent Communication 2022. In the individual categories of career website and social media, we even achieved 1st place. The Swedish market research institute thereby confirms that Deutsche Telekom is at the forefront of digital talent communication with potential candidates. 140 companies were analyzed and over 350 criteria were taken into account.

The independent meta-analysis has the goal to look at employers in a holistic way and to create a truly comprehensive assessment based on a wide range of topics such as employee satisfaction, working conditions, understanding of values, job security, prosperity, HR expertise, image, environmental awareness and many more. 

Deutsche Telekom is in the top 1 percent of employers in Germany for the first time.

With the conception and implementation of a virtual pupils internship, we were awarded the HR Excellence Award 2021 in the category pupils and graduate marketing. In order to support young people in their career orientation, also and especially during the pandemic, we have virtualized our pupils marketing concept. We provide a wide range of online insights into the world of Deutsche Telekom, offer help in choosing a suitable career, identify individual strengths and give confidence in taking the first steps into the job. In doing so, we show a small sample of our day-to-day apprenticeships.

Deutsche Telekom was ranked 32nd in the "World's Best Employers 2021" by Forbes. This international ranking is based on feedback from employees in 58 countries. The survey covered aspects such as image, economic footprint, talent development, equal opportunities and social responsibility.

Telekom was selected by IT-Young Professional as one of the most attractive employers in Germany and has increased its attractiveness on the German job market.

The 2021 Trainee Communication Study by Potentialpark and Ausbildung.de awarded Telekom 2nd place. With 6,000 responses, the students rated the online communication of 100 employers' career websites, online applications, mobile sites and social media platforms as top.

In the latest Potentialpark Ranking 2021 for Digital Talent Attraction, the career website ranked first, which means it is Germany's best corporate website for potential candidates. Telekom also impressed with its other online channels in the categories of the study (Applying Online, Social Media and Mobile Communication), so that we took second place overall.

With its youth magazine “reif”, the school marketing team wins the FOX Award in gold for its efficient, digital communication concept. But the reif magazine was also able to convince with its analog printed version. For the visualization of the poster magazine, there was the FOX Award in silver on top. The journalistic quality and the preparation of the articles for the young target group, as well as the numbers and proof of effectiveness convinced the jury.

Germany's leading women's magazine BRIGITTE and the HR marketing experts from TERRITORY Embrace have chosen "The best employers for women" for the third time - and Deutsche Telekom has again received this award!

Best Recruiters looks at 1.300 top employers in German-speaking countries every year. The areas of online recruiting presence, online job advertisements, applicant handling and applicant feedback are analyzed from the applicant's perspective. We were awarded the silver seal of approval for above-average recruiting quality.

Deutsche Telekom is well positioned in online communication for apprentices! In cooperation with Ausbildung.de, Potentialpark collected 5,372 responses from pupils and examined the performance of 125 employers in the four core areas - Career Website, Mobile, Online Application and Social Media. Deutsche Telekom is in the top ten right away.

In this year's Potential Park Study 2020, the market research institute also certifies that we have excellent quality in our online communication for our candidates. We achieved a very good third place across all four subcategories of career website, mobile, online applying and social media.

The "Female Recruiting Award" is presented annually at the women&work career fair and honours companies which, in the opinion of the fair visitors, have managed best in appealing to women and presenting themselves as attractive employers. The survey of career fair visitors thus gives us a direct impression of the mood of the visitors.

Deutsche Telekom is one of the most popular companies among German LinkedIn members and achieves 5th place in the Linkedin Top Companies in 2019. Companies with a high level of interest among Linkedin members who exchange information intensively with the members and have advertised attractive jobs are listed here accordingly.

In trendence's current market research study, in which more than 20,000 pupils were surveyed throughout Germany, Telekom was named as one of the most attractive employers in Germany. We can be proud of this. The 1,300 new apprentices and dual students who have chosen their career path with us in 2018 can expect high-quality training and excellent prospects for the future.

At the Employer Branding Awards 2018, which are sponsored by the market research institute trendence, we were honored for our excellent approach to the target group of students. Decisive for the award is the adequate orientation of our employer branding and the use of the right communication channels with the right messages to the target group, e.g. our challenge-platform or our Open Work Space „CMD+O“ (German) .

Online channels are essential for recruitment communication for recruitment success and presentation as an attractive employer. That's why we're delighted that we could once again defend 2nd place in this year's Online Talent Communication study by Potentialpark. In the individual categories career website and social media, we were even able to place all competitors behind us.

The visitors of the career fair Woman & Work were convinced: With our attractive booth, excellent advice on career topics by our recruiter and with magenta-colored cotton candy, we again presented ourselves as an attractive employer this year.