A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors the GAUSS Career Service collates and regularly updates a list of those we are aware of. At all those companies alumni of us are employed - so take your chance and scroll through the different trainee programs and see if something is of interest for you.
Trainee Programs (incomplete selection)
Please click on the different industry sectors in order to see a list of the Trainee Programs. Then click on a specific trainee program to see further details concerning industry, target group, duration and application period.
KWS Saat SE & Co. KGaA
AbbVie Deutschland GmbH
AstraZeneca GmbH
Bayer AG
B.Braun AG
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH (Trainee Program "Biopharmaceuticals")
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH (Trainee Program "Engineering")
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH (Trainee Program "Global Quality")
Bristol-Myers Squibb GmbH & Co. KGaA (Global Product and Supply Emerging Leaders Program)
Catalent Pharma Solutions (Graduate Rotational Program Gold)
CSL Behring GmbH
Genentech Inc. (Operations Rotation Development Program)
GlaxoSmithKline plc (Future Leaders Program: Market Access Pharma)
GlaxoSmithKline plc (Future Leaders Program: Manufacturing Operations/Quality Vaccines)
GlaxoSmithKline plc (Future Leaders Program: Research and Development)
Johnson & Johnson GmbH (Leadership Development Programs)
Lonza Group AG
Merck KGaA (GoGlobal Programm)
Merck KGaA (Operations Leadership Development Program)
Novartis AG (Traineeprogramme Innovative Medicines)
Octapharma AG (International Early Career Program)
Pfizer Deutschland GmbH (Postdoctoral Program)
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Roche Pharma Research and Early Development (Strategy Portfolio Career Kickstart (SPOCK) Program)
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Trainee program Manufacturing & Supply)
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Trainee program Medico-Marketing-Sales)
BASF SE (Trainee Program START IN Coatings Chemistry)
Evonik Industries AG
Accenture Plc (various programs)
Bain & Company Inc.
KPMG International ltd.
Merck KGaA (Global Graduate Program: Inhouse Consulting)
PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH (Trainee Program Business Process Consulting)
SAP SE (Career Starters Programm)
Continental AG (IT Graduate Program)
NORD/LB
Philips N.V. (Graduate Development Program)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Leadership Development Program: Information Technology)
Vector Informatik GmbH (Trainee Software Development - Research & Development)
Xenium AG (Xenium Junior Program)
Trilogy Writing & Consulting (Apprenticeship Program)
ASML Holding N.V. (Early Career Program)
Carl Zeiss AG (Graduate Program)
Novelis Inc. (Engineering Development Program)
Robert Bosch GmbH (Junior Managers Program)
ZF Friedrichshafen AG (tranZForm - ZF Global Trainee Program)
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Blue Book traineeship programme of the European Commission