Recruitment in Germany

Deutsche Telekom again Germany’s top employer

In 2023, Deutsche Telekom hired more than 10,700 new employees worldwide, excluding the United States. The largest share of these were in Germany, with around 3,800 new hires, 34.6 percent of whom were junior staff trained in-house. India also remains an important labor market with over 1,000 new hires, primarily for the job profiles of software developers, testers, technical product managers, and project managers. In Germany, recruitment focused on the fiber-optic build-out, where we hired 1,971 technicians and experts.

Deutsche Telekom’s latest campaign and employer promise, #QuestionTodayCreateTomorrow, targets individuals who are willing to help forge our digital future, question the status quo, and push for progress. This campaign is part of a much wider recruitment strategy uniting digitalization with personal commitment. Deutsche Telekom highly values direct exchange and therefore maintains a presence at careers fairs, networking sessions, and other events. Personal contact plays a key role, and Deutsche Telekom rewards the successful recommendation by employees through the ExpertsHireExperts program with a bonus of EUR 2,500. This approach resulted in 788 successful new hires in 2023, a 172 percent increase compared to 290 new hires in 2022.

As well as being a telecommunications market leader, Deutsche Telekom continues to head the league of Germany’s top employers in the Leading Employer study. It also ranks as one of the most attractive companies among students and was awarded the title of “Germany’s best training provider” in 2023.