Alstom received employer-branding award as Highest Climber

At the occasion of this year´s Universum Awards in Berlin, Germany, Alstom received the employer-branding award as Highest Climber in the category Ideal employer: Engineering students yesterday. By climbing up 20 positions to rank 41, Alstom now belongs to the top 50 employers in Germany.

The ranking is compiled by the agency Universum Global in Cologne on an annual basis and the results will be published in the German economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche. The company carries out regular interviews with more than 400,000 students and experts world-wide and cooperates with almost 1,200 companies. The students´ estimation is the basis of the agency´s ranking. For the ranking in Germany, 24,000 students were interviewed 6,100 out of which are registered in engineering courses.

The new CEO of the Alstom Germany Management Board, Alf Henryk Wulf, is extremely satisfied with the company´s increased popularity amongst the interviewed graduates: I am convinced that the large number of changes and challenges which we are facing in the context of the turn of energy policies, leads to an increasing positive public awareness of our product portfolio. Alstom supports the turn of energy policies in Germany with a mixture of innovative products and solutions in the area of renewable energies as well as with an adapted conventional power plant technology. In the area of rail infrastructure, Alstom convinces with interesting products and projects. Wulf is very positive that the company´s ranking will have positive effects on the rapid appointment of a fair number of engineering vacancies.

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