Training pact targets exceeded

In 2005 Deutsche Post AG agreed in a training pact with the service sector trade union, ver.di, to offer 2,300 traineeships in Germany every year until 2007. We continued to meet our obligations under this agreement in the year under review. Furthermore, the provision requiring us as a general rule to offer employment to 30% of trainees and students in Berufsakademie (German universities of co-operative education) programmes in the period from 2007 to 2009 applied for the first time. We actually offered posts to most of the suitable candidates upon completion of their training programmes and therefore far exceeded the quota agreed in the training pact.

Cultivating talent, caring for the disadvantaged

We have developed a separate programme specifically to recruit, foster and retain particularly capable trainees and Berufsakademie students. We undertake to offer permanent employment to the best trainees and students in each year’s group who successfully complete the training programme, a clear incentive for improving performance and raising commitment. For several years, we have been running the Youth Job Market Entrance Qualification programme. This long-term internship serves as a foundation for formal vocational training and thus improves the prospects of young people with restricted access to the employment market. In 2007, we offered traineeships for skilled positions in courier, express and mail services to just under 90% of the 280 young people who embarked on the programme in 2006.

E-learning

At the start of 2008, we launched an internal training platform on the internet at www.mylearningworld.net. It currently offers around 200 courses and seminars on a variety of subjects. The curriculum reflects the skills promoted by our human resources development system and thus facilitates focused personal development.

Initiative prize for House of Finance training programme

Our House of Finance programme is targeted at all employees in finance wishing to expand their knowledge in this area. The Group was awarded the Initiativpreis Aus- und Weiterbildung, a training and continuing professional development prize, for this programme in 2007.