Recruiting
New hires
In 2022, about 26,700 new employees (including vocational trainees and dual-degree students) in Germany completed their first working day at DB Group (previous year: about 23,000). These new hires include almost 4,000 maintenance technicians, around 2,000 mainline locomotive drivers and over 1,500 interlocking employees.
New hires by gender (excLUDING young talents) as of Dec 31 / NP | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
<30 years | 8,247 | 7,161 | 8,247 |
Share of women (%) | 30.7 | 30.5 | 29.3 |
30 –49 years | 10,528 | 8,892 | 10,600 |
Share of women (%) | 25.4 | 21.9 | 21.4 |
≥50 years | 3,035 | 2,397 | 2,853 |
Share of women (%) | 21.6 | 18.9 | 21.1 |
DB Group | 21,810 | 18,450 | 21,700 |
Germany (companies with about 98% of domestic employees).
This does not include the acceptance or hiring of vocational trainees and dual-degree students.
Employee turnover / % | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
Retirement-related turnover | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
thereof women | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
Other employee turnover | 5.8 | 5.1 | 4.3 |
thereof women | 5.3 | 4.6 | 3.8 |
Total | 7.4 | 6.8 | 5.9 |
Germany (companies with about 98% of domestic employees).
The figures indicate non-restructuring-related turnover of permanent employees. Part-time working in the lead-up to retirement is also included in retirement-related employee turnover.
The increase in staff turnover is mainly due to employee-initiated turnover. This is shown by the increased flexibility on the labor market and the shortage of skilled labor.
Employer attractiveness
In 2022, we continued our employment campaign despite a tense labor market. Six large image campaigns and more than 100 recruitment campaigns were rolled-out specifically targeted at high school children, students, university graduates and skilled employees. We won a Red Dot Design Award and a Trendence Award for the “What you are made of” campaign targeted at high school students. We received a bronze Deutsche Digital Award for the campaign “No stress. Do something. At Deutsche Bahn.” campaign aimed at high school students. The launch of our employer branding campaign for 2023 “What is important to you?” was also prepared on the basis of a newly developed global employer value proposition.
We also further developed our diversity recruiting strategy. Among other things, our inclusion center gives all applicants with disabilities, i.e. with a characteristic listed in the Ninth Book of the German Social Code who are rejected in the regular application process, a second chance to find a suitable place to start in DB Group. In order to prevent discrimination in the recruitment process, we offer recruiters and persons involved in the recruitment process training on unconscious bias, errors of judgment and diversity recruiting workshops. We are also part of the “Fair Company Initiative” network, which works towards fairness in the working environment.
In order for us to be visible as a leading employer for women and achieve the goal of “30% women in leadership” by 2024, DB World Women’s Month was also implemented in 2022 as a measure of our women’s recruitment strategy. In March 2022, we changed roles and introduced ourselves to the 26 million women in employment through the “biggest job application in Germany.”