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9/17/2020

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Outstanding opportunities to start a professional career

Do you think young people lack attractive opportunities in the current jobs market? Think again. BDR Thermea Group strives to recruit and develop the best young talent in an engaging graduate programme. 
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Every year, BDR Thermea welcomes a group of new young talents through the graduate programme. Participants acquire a comprehensive view of the industry in a short time, while the company gains their fresh insights.

Ten new graduates of five different nationalities joined the 2019-2020 scheme, and set about developing solutions to real-life business challenges. The programme includes four diverse individual project assignments to help them learn on the job, improve their skills and enrich their development. They also work together in a group assignment. 

Achieving their joint goal wasn't always easy. The graduates worked across four countries and six disciplines to deliver the group project. They learned to overcome cultural differences and time zone variations - and adapted to the new standard of smart working from home, completing their group assignment entirely digitally for the first time. 

The unusual circumstances created by Covid-19 didn't stop them having a positive learning experience. The graduates worked online in multidisciplinary teams, defining a common approach towards opportunities in the commercial products segment. The project resulted in a prototype which they presented to the Management Board, and which will be implemented in the future in several countries.  

 

Learning, development and growth

IT graduate Tanne Ditzel is launching a new information security awareness platform across 16 countries. She also had the opportunity to organise and lead an interactive workshop at Schiphol for the marketing community and take important IT decisions during the graduate programme.

"It has been an amazing year in which I gained a lot of confidence in myself, my capabilities and what I have to offer to the company. I valued the coaching process and the set-up of doing multiple shorter projects over the year in which you can explore different opportunities working with a multifunctional team," says Tanne.

Tanne Ditzel

"I valued the coaching process and the set-up of doing multiple shorter projects over the year in which you can explore different opportunities working with a multifunctional team"

Tanne Ditzel   – IT graduate 

Roy de Ruiter, a health, safety & environment (HSE) graduate, has experienced the pandemic as a powerful learning opportunity. 
"Because of Covid-19, I had the opportunity of working with HR on the creation of the HSE Framework rolled out in more than eight countries over recent months,” says Roy. “The graduate project opens doors and there is really a high level of confidence in you. The programme enables you to gain international experience in a very short period of time.”
 
Roy de Ruiter

 ''The programme enables you to gain international experience in a very short period of time.''

Roy de Ruiter – HSE graduate

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