According to the results of the world's largest employer branding survey & Randstad's "Most Attractive Employers in China" Award released on April 22, ABB stood out among many participating enterprises as the most attractive employer in China's industrial manufacturing field and ranked the third on the list of Randstad's "Top 20 Most Attractive Chinese and Foreign Employers in 2016". That highlights its high level brand recognition and attractiveness to talent.
Founded in 1999, the Randstad Award survey is the world's largest independent employer branding research event. The study targets at students, employees and job-seekers between the ages of 18 and 65 and covers 23 countries and regions. In 2016, the Randstad Award was held in China for the fourth time. More than 7,000 respondents nationwide evaluated 150 Chinese and foreign companies (1:1) with the largest number of employees in China.
In Randstad Award survey, employer brand attractiveness is defined as the "percentage of people willing to work for a company". The survey shows that up to 82% of the respondents said they are willing to work for ABB under the premise of learning about ABB. This figure ranks ABB third among the 150 participating enterprises. ABB also tops the list of 43 industrial manufacturing enterprises and becomes the most attractive employer in the industry, ranking the first in four separate items, including "financial situation", "career prospects", "work-life balance" and "environmentally & socially aware (CSR)".
ABB has always viewed talents as the core competence for enterprise development. ABB not only provides competitive payment and benefits to its employees, but also attaches great importance to personnel training and actively creates a good space for development. Currently, ABB has an outstanding talent development system that ranges from the talent selection and talent evaluation to talent training. Through the ABB China Learning and Development Center, ABB offers a variety of learning, training, and development opportunities for its employees. Over time, ABB has established a learning model that enables its employees to obtain learning opportunities and to put what they've learned into practice. ABB has also provided its employees with three categories of training, i.e. management and leadership skills, professional skills and interpersonal skills, in order to improve the competency of its employees.
As an international and diversified enterprise, ABB provides its employees with a clear career development path and builds a broad career development platform for its employees in China and within the Group, making business development and individual career planning support each other. ABB encourages transparent, cross-sectoral and cross-regional talent flows. Currently, ABB's Chinese employees overseas are working in more than ten countries and regions. In recent years, an increasing number of excellent talents cultivated by ABB locally have assumed important positions in the Group and in other countries.
ABB not only leverage its green technologies to help improve energy efficacy and support the society's sustainable development, but also call on each employee to participate in the various charity activities in education, environment protection and community service. By end of 2015, 3261 ABB employees in China has contributed over 13 thousand hours cumulatively in volunteer activities.
ABB has been widely recognized for its focus on and cultivation of local talents. In the "2014 China Best Employers of College Graduates" survey by the Chinese Ministry of Education, ABB was named one of the "2014 China 100 Best Employers of College Graduates" and one of the "Best Employers in the Industry". In 2015, ABB was honored one of Randstad's "Most Attractive Employers in China" and ranked fourth on the "Top 10 Most Attractive Foreign Enterprises" list.
ABB is a leading global technology company in power and automation that enables utility, industry, and transport & infrastructure customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in roughly 100 countries and employs about 135,000 people. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services, with 18,000 employees, 40 local companies, and an extensive sales and service network across 147 cities.
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