Training, recruitment and further development at all levels

RWE ensures that the Group can continue to meet its need for qualified budding professionals through its job training programmes. In addition to the curriculum, our training programmes offer a host of ways to gain further qualifications. Young people can participate in demanding projects or complete part of their apprenticeships in one of RWE‘s Group companies outside Germany.

We also enable and promote the combination of a training programme with a course of study in a variety of fields. RWE employs approximately 3,000 apprentices. In the year being reviewed, about 1,000 young people embarked on a training programme with an RWE company. We offer roughly three times as many apprenticeships as required to cover our own needs.

We encourage the interest of students in our Group through the RWE academic programme. This helps us recruit the staff we need and improves our image at universities. In 2008, activities focussed on granting scholarships for courses of importance to our company. We chose to give 31 students a monthly sum of €500 over a maximum of four semesters. In addition, every scholarship recipient benefits from the experience and advice of an RWE executive acting as a mentor, who provides insight into the company’s daily business and challenges his or her protégé’s expertise. A sophisticated extra-curricular programme provides stimulus to develop the scholarship holders’ individual strengths and introduces them to RWE’s business processes and sites. This enables them to put their knowledge into a practical context.