Beijing, May 25, 2015 -- At the recently held "China Randstad Awards", the world's leading power and automation technology group, ABB, was named one of the "2015 Most Attractive Employers in China" alongside Alibaba, IBM, Apple, Intel and other well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises. ABB was also ranked fourth in the "Top 10 Most Attractive Foreign Enterprises" list.
Founded in 1999, the Randstad Award survey is the world's largest independent employer branding research event. The study is based on a representative sample of people between the ages of 18 and 65. In 2015, the Randstad Award was held in China for the third time. The largest 150 Chinese and foreign companies received its survey this year that covered Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other first-tier and second-tier cities.
Through the survey they found that salary increases, career prospects, and job stability are the three factors valued most by respondents. Up to 82.79% of the respondents said they are willing to work for ABB under the premise of learning about ABB. This figure ranks ABB fifth on Randstad's "Top 20 Most Attractive Employers" list and highlights ABB's high level brand awareness and attractiveness to talent.
Additionally, ABB topped the three separate "Most Attractive Enterprises" lists ranked in terms of "career prospects", "work-life balance" and "environmentally & socially aware (CSR)". Furthermore, ABB also ranked among the top three on the lists in terms of having "financially healthy", "good training", "long-term job security" and "strong management".
Talent is the driving force for ABB's development. ABB not only provides competitive payment and benefits to its employees, it 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; management and leadership skills, professional skills and interpersonal skills, in order to improve the competency of its employees.
Meanwhile, 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. Currently, ABB's Chinese employees overseas are working in more than ten countries and regions. In recent years, many excellent talents cultivated by ABB locally have assumed important positions in the Group and in other countries. In addition to training its own employees, ABB cultivates talents for the development of society and industry through multiple actions such as the University Innovation Contest, cooperation with universities on research projects, and various scholarships for students.
With efforts to local talent cultivation, ABB has been repeatedly selected as one of China's best employers. In 2006, in a survey organized by a leading Chinese job site, 51job.com, ABB was rated by Chinese college students as one of the most popular employers in China. In 2009 and 2013, ABB was twice named one of the "Top Ten Employers in the Industry" in the "Best Employers of Chinese College Graduates" survey launched by another leading Chinese job site, ChinaHR.com. 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".
ABB is a Global 500 company and a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility, industry, and transport and infrastructure customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in roughly 100 countries and employs about 140,000 people. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services, with 19,000 employees, 39 local companies, and an extensive sales and service network across 126 cities.
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