Huawei is EU Top Employer
Huawei is EU Top Employer
Huawei Tops Europe’s Best Employer List For 5 Consecutive Years.
HUAWEI IS EUROPE’S TOP TALENT EMPLOYER
By Dr. Digby James Wren
In 43 European countries from Lisbon to Paris and Budapest to Berlin, Huawei covers Europe with the world’s most advanced and secure telecommunications networks. Across cutting edge technologies, Huawei is building the telecommunications backbone to power Europe’s future.
Huawei’s recognition by the Top Employers Institute - a leader in human resources management certifications - as a “Top Employer” in Europe for 2024, is the fifth consecutive year that Huawei the list.
Huawei gained a leading spot in 16 European countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK.
For over 20 years, Huawei Europe has pursued ‘top talent’ acquisition as a ‘core value’ for its business operations and success. The ‘Top Employer’ certification process ensures Huawei continues to actively foster the unique value in people by harnessing ‘world best practice’ to ensure it is the ‘top choice’ for ‘top talent’ attraction, retention and development across Europe and world-wide.
For Lesley White, Deputy VP of Human Resources Europe, Huawei is an employer with fantastic career development opportunities on all levels “scoring 15% above the total of all Top Employers benchmarks.”
Huawei’s holistic approach to human resource achievements and development of tailored education and training both promotes and supports long-term career pathways. Moreover, Huawei is intensely focused on local communities and regional development within a global outlook designed to attract top-level graduates, rising managers and senior science and engineering professionals.
Huawei fosters an environment of innovation in human resources to match its reputation as an innovator in the global technology ecosystem. Huawei’s initiatives in this space include the ICT Academy, a partnership between Huawei and top universities in Europe and globally that shares knowledge on its cutting-edge technologies and actively cultivates new ICT talents.
In 2011, Huawei launched its flagship education program Seeds for the Future for digital skills cultivation, and the Huawei Graduate Program, which places university graduates into roles at Huawei to develop and grow their careers. The company recently announced that the European edition of Seeds for the Future will be held in Rome, Italy in 2024.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has predicted that by 2030, the global requirement for digital jobs will have increased from over 70 million to 92 million. In recognition of the need to promote ICT talent innovation, Huawei’s ‘Seeds for the Future Scholarship’ program was recently introduced to Bulgaria and Cyprus.
Huawei will continue to work on Europe’s digitalisation and innovation initiatives through cross-cultural exchange and cultivation of the entrepreneurial spirit of top talents.. The program embraces diversity of nationality and inclusivity as its core values, and has committed to a participation rate of 50% for female students. and the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Huawei’s European ‘Top Graduate’ program, empowers university graduates to explore and find the career path which suits them best. The program offers intensive, six-month-long training courses and assessments, followed by a further 18 months of developmental support from mentors and supervisors.
Huawei’s ‘Rising Star’ and Senior Leadership employee programs offer specialised trainings at Huawei’s Shenzhen and Dongguan campuses.
Huawei also runs a “Top Minds” recruitment programme for those people with expertise in the sciences. This offering features no criteria based on the educational background of candidates, but instead focuses on their achievements in their respective fields.
Other key factors behind Huawei’s ‘Top Employer’ achievements is the range of opportunities to collaborate with other departments and positions and open communication with high-level senior managers for all staff whether they are engineers, IT specialists, lawyers or finance executives.
At Huawei, the work-life balance of staff members is enhanced through diverse recreational and incentive activities, including encouragement of individual passions and goals such as music, sports or social activities.
Huawei’s commitment to talent development starts right from the recruitment process. “At Huawei, we don’t look at length of service or age, but rather at capability and potential ,” said Lesley White, Deputy VP of Human Resources Europe at Huawei’s European headquarters in Düsseldorf.
“You’re encouraged to find the path that suits you and the work that you are passionate about, because we believe that, if you are passionate about your work, then you’ll naturally perform better.”