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The Bonn, Germany- headquartered company said that it is now concentrating more on the recruitment of junior staff and experienced experts as part of its longer-term Human Resources, or HR, development.

Deutsche Telekom said that the 4,000 employees will be recruited in the areas of information technology, high-tech product development, business management, sales and service.

The company said that around 3,800 traineeships will be offered at 39 locations in Germany this year. The training offers are mainly focusing on service, sales and technology and the major demand is for dialog marketing assistants, IT systems electronics technicians, IT technicians, IT systems sales assistants, and retail sales assistants, Deutsche Telekom added.

The company is offering over 250 of the training opportunities in its dual bachelor degree program for high-school graduates, giving importance to economics, telecommunications, information and business administration.

Deutsche Telekom said that the intake of new staff would once again make it the largest training company in Germany, with a trainee ratio of around 8%.

Commenting on the new recruitments, Thomas Sattelberger, Member of the Board of Management, Human Resources, said, “This recruitment and training policy will serve to raise the profile and enhance the reputation of Deutsche Telekom as an attractive talent and training company, making it a more appealing employer.”

TIRUCHI: In an effort to involve more convicts lodged in the Central Prison here in income generating activities, the jail authorities have sent proposals to the State Government seeking permission to start new micro-level economic trades in the prison.

Prisoners have taken up a variety of income generating activities already. Permission has been sought to start new trades such as bakery, sericulture, candle and pickle making and toilet soap manufacture. The objective is to engage the convicts in productive vocations, to enable them earn even while they are in prison and help them in their long-term rehabilitation.

A non-governmental organisation has come forward to lend assistance in training the inmates in the new ventures and help in procuring raw materials and marketing the finished products.

About 10 acres of the vast extent of unused land available within the prison campus had already been used productively to raise mulberry plants for the proposed sericulture unit, prison officials said. At present 200 convicts, of the total 1,000 convicts, are involved in various kinds of income generation activities within the prison such as blanket making, washing soap manufacture, file pad making, book-binding and tailoring.

A senior prison official said that around 1,500 blankets made by the prisoners were being dispatched every month to various government hospitals across the State and to homes for beggars. Around 25,000 file pads manufactured by them were being sent to various departments every month. Through the newly revived tailoring unit, uniforms were supplied to the inmates of the Borstal School at Pudukottai. Washing soap manufactured here was being sent to all central prisons, district and sub jails across the State, he said.