BSH’s Global Graduate Program – Exploring Work and Life Abroad

At BSH, extraordinary employees and unique brands are united under one big roof. While we continue to grow as a company, we want to encourage our colleagues to develop their potential and to keep on learning.
We believe that great work can only be achieved when you do what you love. Here in “Career”, we will tell you how this idea comes to life.Extraordinary learning opportunities, mentorship, a stay abroad and an unlimited contract with BSH – the 12-month-long Global Graduate Accelerator program aims to foster young talents. Working in diverse teams and different areas of BSH, the Graduates can collect a variety of impressions together with peers and their mentors. Today, we want to share Andrea García Aldrett’s experience with the program and how her Mexican heritage helped her to connect with the people and culture of Paris, France, where she absolved her stay abroad.
Finding solutions in teamwork can be hard without an established feedback culture. That’s why, lately, this term developed into a corporate buzzword; but what does it actually mean? BSH sees feedback culture as a strategy that incorporates not only dialog within a team, but also concerns other levels of interaction within the company. So, in which ways does BSH foster its feedback culture? We asked Christina Hilgers, Inmaculada Perez Muñoz and Keqing Lin, who are part of BSH’s Feedback Team within the Global HR department Employer of Choice, to share their insights and experiences with us.
To foster young talents, BSH offers opportunities like the Global Graduate Accelerator (short: GGA) – a 12-month program for recent graduates, designed to discover BSH and yourself with a focus on experience-based learning. To give them security, the participants also get an unlimited contract at BSH. By working in diverse teams and departments in Germany and abroad, BSH provides extraordinary learning and networking opportunities for young employees to discover their passions and talents. Today, we want to introduce Jennifer Deuber, who finished the program in the area of Business Administration one year ago. We asked her about the experiences she made in Germany and Stockholm during the program and how it helped ignite her passion for organizing and analyzing data.
Connecting talent from across the globe, strengthening the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and supporting intercultural dialogue are part of BSH’s talent program TALENTIFY. At last year’s virtual TALENTIFY Campus, the initiative “Inspire Others” was started: Program members formed teams and developed new ideas to foster sustainability at BSH. Today, we want to introduce you to the second team and their project called “Future Concept”, dedicated to inspiring new product ideas and raising awareness on the topic of sustainability.
For more than ten years, BSH has been participating in the iPraktikum program, a practical course offered by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Computer Science students learn and apply software engineering techniques by developing iOS mobile apps according to the problem statements of clients. We gathered the experiences of the eight international students who collaborated with BSH Werkstatt this semester – together they created a cooking application called “Culinerics”.
Connecting talent from across the globe, strengthening the exchange of knowledge and experiences, and supporting intercultural dialogue are part of BSH’s global talent program Talentify. In the initiative “Inspire Others” which was started last year at the virtual Talentify Campus, program members formed teams and developed new ideas to foster Sustainability at BSH. Today we want to show you the full process of the “Inspire Others” project and introduce the first group and their idea.
BSH´s global talent program Talentify is taking a new approach to talent development. It emphasizes self-reflection and learning based on experiences to further develop employees’ own potential. Jakob Schultz, Systems Engineer at BSH in Dillingen, Germany, shared those experiences with us and how they shaped his current professional life.
Advancing sustainability has gone from being necessary to being an urgent matter. The involvement of everyone is key and the role that companies play in this matter is important. This was the first message a group of Talentify members received when they were asked to take action.
Your job, your talent, your opportunity! Talentify is BSH’s development program that gives employees - the opportunity to self-responsibly drive their personal and professional development – A Talent Guide – an experienced BSH employee – can support! This connection is known as the Talentify Tandem. Johann, a Talentify member and his Talent Guide Christoph gave a short interview and talked about their experiences as a tandem and what they have learned from it.
Mastering the plunge into an early career as a trainee – no problem at BSH! We asked our trainee Rahul Bhatia, how he experienced the start of the Trainee Global Graduate Accelerator and what helped him the most while working mobile. An interview about chances, challenges and remote teamwork – read more.
Even in today’s modern society, women often have to overcome a lot of obstacles to balance family life and career. At BSH our employees are the basis of our success. Therefore, we try to support parents wherever we can. That means promoting the perfect person for a specific job, even if they’re not physically present for a while.
Add the right amount of detergent, then wash and dry your laundry – all in one single cycle. The new washer dryer with i-DOS function, presented at IFA 2018 in Berlin, does it all. This is the first time these functions have been combined in one appliance.
Ion Hauer, who has a PhD in physics, recently joined BSH. He does not conduct scientific series of tests or measurements, however, but works as what is called a “Digital Business Model Scout” in a new department that looks all over the world for new and innovative digital business models. The department’s name is the BSH Digital Business Unit and its goal is to prepare the company for its role as an industry leader for digital services in the connected kitchen.
What do consumers deeply care about and how can we develop the best solutions for them to improve the quality of their lives at home? We talked to Henning Brau and asked him, why a Psychologist is particularly suited to answer these questions. In his job as User Experience Manager he uses his skills to better understand consumers needs and enable other people to work consumer-centred.
No day is the same for Thomas Salditt, team leader at Global Digital Transition. One of his teams, although not exceptional for BSH, is made up of a total of eight people, spread across two different countries – Germany and Poland, and who represent an incredible seven different nationalities.
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH, with a total turnover of some EUR 15.6 billion and 62,000 employees in 2022, is a global leader in the home appliance industry. The company’s brand portfolio includes eleven well-known appliance brands like Bosch, Siemens, Gaggenau and Neff as well as the ecosystem brand Home Connect and service brands like Kitchen Stories. BSH produces at 40 factories and is represented in some 50 countries. BSH is a Bosch Group company.