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The Leading Women@ALTANA committee, launched in 2015,
is now in charge of managing the process for increasing
the share of women in management in Germany. In this committee,
members of the Management Board are working
with managing directors, representatives of the Human Resource
department, and employees on a concept for a
Germany
wide mentoring program. The basis is a pilot project
focusing on mentoring that seven women successfully
completed
in 2015. In 2016, it was continued with seven
additional mentor-mentee tandems.
Support for Young Families
To enable employees to reconcile family and professional life,
in Germany ECKART offers single parents and couples
who both work a monthly allowance for afternoon care of
elementary school children amounting to 50 euros a
month. This also applies during the employee’s probationary
period, in cases of temporary employment contracts, and
when wages are paid on sick leave. In 2016, the offer was
taken advantage of in 28 cases.
Training in Labor Law
Managers with disciplinary responsibility have to have a
sound knowledge of labor laws and update this knowledge
at regular intervals. To this end, all ALTANA companies
in Germany offered around 500 managers a one-day training
session on this topic in 2016. In addition to imparting
expertise
on labor law and the Works Constitution Act, the
training dealt with the question of which situations require
that the management cooperates with the selected employee
representatives in the works council.
Recruiting Via Online Channels
The target groups of interest to ALTANA recruiting communicate
primarily via the Internet and mobile end devices.
In 2016, ALTANA therefore added new functions and applications
to the career portal on the Group’s website. The
pages were optimized for mobile devices such as tablets and
smartphones and the overall navigation was improved.
Thanks to interfaces with career networks including LinkedIn
and XING, applicants can now directly load their profile
onto their ALTANA application form.
With these measures, ALTANA has made the application
process as simple and efficient as possible and at the same
time laid the basis for integrated processing of applications
and the resulting communication.
This is probably one of the reasons why in 2016 ALTANA
finished in a top spot in the Career’s Best Recruiters employer
ranking for the fifth time in a row. In the ranking of
companies in the chemical industry, the Group finished
in first place, receiving 82 of 100 possible points. And it finished
in 20th place in the ranking of all companies. In
this independent scientific study, the recruiting activities of
the 500 companies with the highest sales and largest
number
of employees from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
are analyzed based on 133 criteria.
ALTANA also banks strongly on digital channels when it
comes to recruiting new trainees. An eight-week recruiting
campaign to find new apprentices launched in the fall of
2016, in which five German‑based
companies took part,
relies exclusively on online channels, including Facebook and
Google. At the center of the campaign was information
on coating technician and IT apprenticeships
as well as dual
education that combines vocational training with studies.
In addition
to ads geared to young people, parents and teach-
ers are informed about the various apprenticeship options
offered by ALTANA.