Job offers for all eligible trainees

We view the training of young people as an investment in the future and an important contribution to our socio-political commitment. In 2008, we hired around 1,600 trainees in Germany. The spectrum of 17 traineeships ranges from courier, express and mail services to studies at Berufsakademien (German universities of co-operative education). We were able to offer employment to all eligible trainees in the 2008 class, clearly surpassing the 30% target for trainees in classes 2007 to 2009 set forth in the training pact made with Verdi.

Customised training programme

We foster our particularly capable trainees in our top trainee programme, which is intended for the top 5% of our around 3,800 trainees and Berufsakademie students in Germany. We guarantee permanent employment to participants who successfully complete the training programme, creating an additional incentive for performance and commitment.

Perspektive Gelb is our programme to help youths who are finding it difficult to obtain apprenticeships to broaden their horizons with a traineeship at Deutsche Post. As in previous years, the programme provided 300 trainee positions. In the year under review, we hired just under 90% of the 263 participants in the 2007 class.

Innovative human resources marketing

The new initiative Discover Logistics aims to present logistics as an exciting industry of the future and showcase DHL as an attractive employer. In the year under review, 8,500 users from 122 countries signed up for dhl-discoverlogistics.com, an online platform.

Our online career portal has once again proven to be a fitting recruiting tool in the age of the internet. Each year, we advertise more than 16,000 jobs online and our database already includes over half a million candidates. As in 2007, the Swedish market research institute Potentialpark Communication ranked our career portal as number one in Germany and Europe in their Top Employer Web Benchmark 2008 ranking.

Online training offers expanded

We continued to expand the courses offered on the internet and intranet in the area of continued professional development. Currently, around 50,000 employees are taking advantage of the over 1,000 courses which range from general management skills to specific Group initiatives and our Code of Conduct. The online training platform mylearningworld.net is an important component of our education concept. That is why we will expand the courses offered and we anticipate a considerable rise in demand. Our executive development website is geared towards top managers and executives.

Finding and fostering talent

Finding and fostering qualified and dedicated future leaders within our own ranks is absolutely vital to our company. This is why we developed Group-wide talent programmes to systematically cultivate our top potentials. One of the programmes, for example, gives select candidates the opportunity to complete an executive MBA degree at an external business school. Our international mentoring programme helps junior staff members, in particular our female employees, with professional development.

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