BMW Group top automotive employer for young IT professionals


Munich.

No other automobile manufacturer is more popular as an employer
among young IT professionals than the BMW Group. In the “Information
technology” category of the “trendence Graduate Barometer 2017”
employer rankings just published, the BMW Group was the
highest-rated automobile manufacturer in Germany, at number three,
trailing only the big names in IT. In early May, graduating
engineering and business students already named the BMW Group as
their preferred employer in the “trendence Graduate Barometer”.

“The profound change in our industry presents a historic opportunity
for young talents to shape the mobility of the future,” explains
Milagros Caiña-Andree, member of the Board of Management of the BMW
Group, responsible for Human Resources. “Following our successes
among both engineering and business students, the positive response
of computer scientists shows that young IT professionals are also
looking for the kind of challenges we can offer.”

With a score of now ten per cent, the BMW Group moved up another
0.9 percentage points from the previous year and improved on its
position two years in a row. This was the company’s best result in a
decade and, together with Google and Microsoft, it is one of IT
graduates’ three top employers. The BMW Group’s popularity as an
employer also increased in Austria, where the company was the second
most popular choice for young IT professionals, behind Google.

In a comparison between sectors, the automotive industry was the
number-two field of activity for young computer scientists and –
thanks in part to the performance of the BMW Group – was once again
more popular than the previous year. Only IT service providers were
ranked higher by their industry’s young talent.

The “trendence Graduate Barometer Germany” this year surveyed a
total of 52,000 graduating students from 196 colleges and
universities in Germany, including around 5,500 IT students.

Another study published today by LinkedIn also confirmed the strong
interest in the BMW Group as an employer. The BMW Group was the most
popular automotive employer in the “LinkedIn Top Companies 2017” study.