- Graduates and young professionals wanted: Up to 2,000 non-fixed-term jobs still available at Deutsche Telekom this year
- Optimum career start with the "Jump in!" and "Start up!" programs
- Deutsche Telekom Campus Tour: an internship in South Africa to be won
Depending on business trends, Deutsche Telekom is planning up to 2,000 extra jobs this year for university graduates and young professionals in addition to the experts that have already been hired. Engineers, IT specialists, business management specialists and economists are particularly in demand at the moment. What is more, a wide range of entry-level openings at the company are available to graduates in other faculties, Peter Körner, Head of Human Resources Development, confirmed: "Rigid, predefined career paths do not drive an international Group forward. For this reason, we provide flexibility, offer adaptable development opportunities and focus on independence. We place particular importance on ensuring that our managers support the career development of their employees." In total, the company is planning to take on up to 3,500 new employees in 2009. The direct entry program "Jump in!" offers university graduates and young professionals superb opportunities for a successful start to their career at Deutsche Telekom, as it focuses in the first few months on intensively enhancing the new employees' personal and technical skills. This extends from coaching by management, to potential international assignments, right through to a personal training budget. As an alternative to "Jump in!," the junior staff program "Start up!" is geared towards highly motivated university graduates with compelling personalities and the drive to make changes. Over a 15-month period – of which three are spent in one of the national companies – demanding tasks and innovative projects prepare the "Start up!" participants for taking on more responsibility at Deutsche Telekom. Coaching by direct superiors and individual mentoring from an experienced executive support the development of the Group's newest employees. The current Deutsche Telekom Campus Tour will be visiting selected universities across Germany until July 2009. Members of Deutsche Telekom's recruiting team provide information on vacant positions, the junior staff program "Start up!" as well as the direct entry program "Jump in!," and explain internship opportunities within the Group. On top of this, all visitors to the Campus Tour have the chance to win an attractive, paid internship in South Africa from May through July 2010. "We are consciously approaching the universities directly. That's where we find people who want to enhance their talents and who are looking out for opportunities to put their ideas into practice. We are seeking young, committed employees who want to make changes and shape the company, and who have a nose for innovation," Mr. Körner explained the aim of the campaign. The kick-off of the Campus Tour was on April 23, 2009 at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in Sankt Augustin. Interesting and interested students can convince the team that they are precisely the right person for a top internship in South Africa by creating a video application in the Campus Tour truck. The team will be looking at the applicant's personality, creativity and originality, not their grades and résumé. The tour hair stylists will ensure a perfect impression and appearance in the video, at no cost. The applicants from the 10 best videos will be invited to a selection day in Berlin. Further information as well as the Campus Tour stops can be found in the Internet at www.telekom.com/your-chance and www.telekom.com/campustour .