University Graduates, OKD Employees have met with Klaus-Dieter Beck, Chief Executive Officer

OSTRAVA – One of the OKD Shared Services Centre, Human Resources, Recruitment and Development priorities consists in ensuring university-educated expert in the fields of mining, mechanical and electrical engineering, who will work with new technologies and equipment and will have foreign language skills so that the company can also use their services outside the Czech Republic.

In late 2008 OKD Scholarship Programmes and OKD Academy Project started to be implemented in cooperation with the Ostrava Mining University. Cooperation Agreements were signed with the Faculty of Mining and Geology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and OKD launched a campaign to recruit students and graduates in specific fields of study for OKD. Based on such activities, OKD has been managing, for two years already, to recruit university graduates for work in its operations.

Moreover, the company has been implementing the Education and Training Programme related to its own personnel’s study at universities, focused mainly on the mining engineering. This year twelve employees have finished their studies while working full time, and five new university graduates have taken up their employment with OKD. Almost all of them and other five graduates of 2009 participated in a meeting with Klaus-Dieter Beck, Chief Executive Officer, OKD, held in the OKD Guest Villa in Ostrava on 11 November 2010. The Chief Human Resources Officer of OKD and representatives of BUs were also present there.

The meeting was held in the form of an informal discussion. Two new graduates presented their experience with the Adaptation Programme in the BUs. All the present people were impressed by an excellent presentation provided by Radim Havlásek in English, for which the Chief Executive Officer praised him. Radim Havlásek thus set the target really high for other graduates who will attend the next meeting. During the discussion, the graduates were particularly interested in OKD prospects and new acquisitions of NWR, and also asked about corporate education and training options, careers and corporate culture shaping.

I am convinced that both the company management representatives and the graduates were impressed by the meeting. The graduates could convince themselves of the willingness and openness of OKD management, who expressed, through the Chief Executive Officer, their supports and mainly, good opportunities for all who are interested and willing to study and perform fair work for OKD.

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