Labour market for qualified university graduates remains fiercely competitive
Demand for motivated, well educated university graduates – especially those with degrees in mathematics or business mathematics – continued to intensify in the year under review. Our company finds itself facing fierce competition from banks, management consultants and other financial services providers. Thanks to our longstanding involvement in university recruiting we have a presence at Germany's major job fairs. As a result, we are consistently able to fill new positions with highly qualified young candidates.
With a view to consolidating and further extending our position as an attractive employer in the market, we systematically seek to identify room for optimisation within the scope of our strategic human resources planning. In 2008 we therefore set up a "Task Force" for the recruitment of mathematicians. Comprised of the managers of departments which are especially reliant on mathematicians as well as representatives of Human Resources, it has set itself the task of further improving the way in which the company addresses this group of graduates in particular. Stepping up and expanding our contacts with universities – in part also through the sponsoring of chairs in mathematics –, increasing the number of positions offered to apprentices and soon-to-be graduates as well as launching an employer branding project are just the first measures undertaken by this task force.
Flanking these marketing-oriented approaches, we have also created a trainee programme specially aimed at mathematicians: in the future, Hannover Re will offer particularly well-suited graduates the opportunity to undergo an 18-month trainee programme for junior executives and thereby familiarise themselves with the company from a broad variety of perspectives by spending periods of six to twelve weeks in various areas of the organisation. In this way, we shall be able to promptly fill vacancies in these departments as they arise with well-trained staff and further boost the appeal of Hannover Re among university graduates with a background in mathematics.
Age structure (Hannover Home Office)
Length of service (Hannover Home Office)
