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Trainee recruitment
As part of various events aimed at recruiting trainees, we gave a number of school children from
the Salzgitter region the opportunity of forming their own impression of steel as a material and of its
fascinating possibilities at a series of practical workshops. In cooperation with the “phæno – Experimentation
Landscape” museum based in Wolfsburg, we offered 70 groups of school goers aged 15 to
19 the opportunity of working with steel and familiarizing themselves with its properties. We informed
around 60,000 visitors about our company at the steel campus at the IdeenExpo exhibition of ideas
held in Hanover.
Besides participating regularly at university job fairs, special highlights included the presentation of the
Salzgitter Group as an attractive employer at various project weeks posted at RWTH Aachen University
and the Technical University of Braunschweig. The focus was mainly on the variety of career opportunities
on offer, as well as interesting jobs in research, production and administration.
Our Group is already one of Germany’s top employers. This is the conclusion of almost 7,000 undergraduate
engineering students from across the whole of Germany. The result was published in the socalled
“Graduates Barometer 2007” (Engineering Edition). Salzgitter AG ranks as high as position 13 in
the list of best employers for engineers in Lower Saxony. The Group is among the 50 best mechanical
engineering companies in Germany. We intend to build on these positive results in the next few years.
Employee satisfaction
In autumn 2007, we conducted a groupwide survey of our employees’ views of their employer. With
a response rate of 52%, we achieved a representative starting point for a meaningful evaluation. The
results, which were available at the start of 2008, are being used to further expand the specific
strengths of the Group and of its companies and to work on potential areas of weakness.
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