Talents in Touch 2009 - Review
Thursday, 10/22/2009, 11:20:30
Last weekend, it was time for the "Talents in Touch 2009" event in Barcelona! Now, I'm back and I can say that I had a wonderful weekend. That's why I would like to share my impressions with you:
The event started on Friday at 5pm. Peter Körner, Head of Human Resources Development, made a speech and talked about Deutsche Telekom as an attractive employer.
Afterwards we went to the restaurant "Torre d'alta Mar", where a welcome dinner was prepared for us. The restaurant is on a 75m-high tower and you had a wonderful view to the city of Barcelona. Here, everybody had to determine their workshop groups by finding out everybody's keyword (which were given to us earlier) and the icons on our name badges. After that, the party went on and everybody tried to get to know each other.
Every student had an observer for the three days. The observer "observed" the student and took notes on how he is reacting and solving problems and so on.
On Saturday morning, the CTO of Deutsche Telekom, Thomas Curran, spoke about shaping tomorrow's world. After his inspiring keynote, the students got together with their workshop groups to start with the workshop. My workshop topic was "Next Generation Mobile Networks" and the task was to create a future NGMN scenario for Telekom 2020 as a play. The observer sat right beside us and took some notes. That's why, I tried to show myself from my best side 
, trying to be the leader in the group and letting the other ones contribute with their ideas and so on.
The presentation was quite good. Everybody liked it and we got a huge applause. Our slogan for the scenario: "With NGMN, your beloved ones will always be there for you!"
On the evening, we had our so-called "White Session" in a factory building, the "Studio Lava". Here, everybody worked in groups on hobby topics like "film and documentation", "sound designing", "DJ'ing" or "molecular cooking". After these funny experiments, we had a great party till 1am in the morning.
On Sunday, we went to T-Systems in Barcelona. The Telekom employees prepared a "Marketplace" there, where everybody could chat with them about career possibilities. All employees were really helpful and they've answered all questions. After the marketplace, we had our little "Barcelona Experience" tour and went on to have our lunch at the restaurant "Opium Mar".
Later on, in the hotel, we got our individual feedback from our observer. Thank God, I got a positive feedback. Members of last year's "Talents in Touch" told me that if somebody gets a positive feedback, Telekom invites this person to the "Telekom Students Club". Being a member of the Students Club, you can get seminars and workshops (e.g. project management etc.) for free. I hope, I will get an invitation to the Students Club .
All in all, I can say that "Talents in Touch" was a great event! I would recommend it to everybody. Deutsche Telekom is changing and they really try to motivate young talents to be a part of their company. They already got my attention .
You can learn more about "Talents in Touch" and career at Telekom in general at Twitter: twitter.com/telekomkarriere
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