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The initiative LEADING WOMEN @ ALTANA is providing important
impetus. It includes a mentoring program for women
that prepares women who have potential for a possible
leadership role and accompanies women who have taken on
a leadership role for the first time. The mentoring program
makes an important contribution toward increasing the share
of women in leadership positions.
To this end, teams consisting of a mentee and a mentor
meet regularly over a period of twelve months. The
mentor shares his or her knowledge and experience with the
mentee. On account of the success, ALTANA continued
the mentoring project in 2019 with 28 new tandems across
its sites in Germany. At present, the company is examining
whether to extend the program to other European countries.
Recruitment
Our recruitment activities received a number of awards in
2019. ALTANA received top results regarding online recruiting
channels from BEST RECRUITERS and the Potentialpark
study. In addition, we again received the “MINT-Minded
Company” for 2019. This award is presented by audimax
MEDIEN GmbH in cooperation with the MINT Zukunft schaffen
initiative. The initiative honors companies that provide
special support to young talent in the fields of mathematics,
informatics, natural sciences, and technology.
For the recruitment of young talent, the ALTANA Group
has relied for years on cooperation with institutes of higher
education. Particularly noteworthy is its close cooperation
with the Young Chemists Forum (JCF), a scientific association
for chemistry students and doctoral candidates. In the
year under review, ALTANA was in close contact with
various regional forums of the JCF, which organized various
events including seminars, excursions, job exchanges, and
conferences lasting several days. ALTANA also took part in the
JCF Spring Symposium in Bremen attended by more than
300 participants from the university chemistry landscape. In
an international context, ALTANA participated in 2019 for
the first time in the ChemSkillDays in Salzburg, organized by
young chemists from Austria and Germany. At this event,
we presented ourselves to around 40 students at a workshop
on sustainability and project management.
For the tenth time, in the year under review ALTANA
supported students majoring in MINT fields and in human
resource management with a Deutschlandstipendium. The
27 recipients not only received financial support, but could
also personally experience ALTANA within the framework
of various events, enable themselves to be considered for in-
ternships and degree theses, take advantage of mentoring
offers or take part in specialist seminars.
As part of the ALTANA Group’s web design project,
the ALTANA career website was revised and made more customer
oriented, user-friendly, and modern.