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Here are some answers to questions that may be of interest to all groups of applicants.
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Here you will find specific answers to precisely the questions that are of interest to you as school students on topics such as work placements and training opportunities once you leave school.  
Yes, Bayer offers work placements for school students at various locations in Germany. Further information on people to contact and entry requirements for individual sites can be found here.  
Bayer offers training in various scientific, technical and commercial careers. (For an overview of our vocational training opportunities, please see here.)  
Bayer offers high school graduates with very good academic results several vocational training courses with an integrated study program:

1. Management and International Business Studies (MIBS) training and study program with combined training as a commercial assistant
2. IT with business studies (WIN) training and study program with two-and-a half years of training as an IT specialist
3 Combined engineering training (KBA) as an industrial mechanic with mechanical/process engineering studies for a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering or Bachelor of Process Engineering
4. Training as an electronics specialist in automation engineering with electrical engineering studies for a Bachelor of Engineering.
5. Training as a chemistry laboratory technician/chemical technician and Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Engineering

(For an overview of our vocational training opportunities, please see here  
Requirements vary depending on the subject area. A high school diploma is a basic requirement for all programs. A high school diploma is essential for the “ Management and International Business Studies” program. Other requirements depend on the chosen subject area.  
The most important questions concerning you as a student with regard to an internship or an undergraduate dissertation etc. are answered here.  
Approximately 600-800 places are available each year throughout Germany, the vast majority of which are in Leverkusen and Berlin  
Applications for internships in Germany should be submitted approx. two to three months before they start. For an internship during the summer vacation, it may be advisable to apply six months in advance due to the high volume of inquiries.  
An internship should last at least four weeks but no longer than one year. The minimum recommended length of an internship is three months to ensure tasks can also be performed independently following an induction phase.  
Yes, there is the option for students to complete an internship abroad. Further information on internships outside Germany can be found at www.mybayerjob.com on the relevant country site in the section “Bayer worldwide”.

Also visit our international mybayerjob sites for selected countries:
http://www.mybayerjob.be
http://www.mybayerjob.fr/fr/
http://www.mybayerjob-nordic.com
http://www.mybayerjob.it/it/
http://www.mybayerjob.jp/ja/
http://www.mybayerjob.es/es/
http://www.mybayerjob.co.uk/en/
http://www.mybayerjob.us/en/

You will find all current internship offers by setting the “Access” filter top right to “ Student (m/w)”  
No, internships can be offered in almost all subject areas.  
Right from day one, Bayer assigns its interns tasks that suit their existing skills. It is not unusual for interns to be assigned responsibilities or sub-projects.  
A gross monthly payment of between € 300 and €1,000 is made for all internships, depending on the type of internship and the stage that interns have reached in their studies. Students who move to Leverkusen for the duration of their internship have the opportunity to receive a rent allowance depending on the subject area.  
As well as supervision in the intern’s own department, there are regular get-togethers where interns can compare notes and get to know each other.  
A knowledge of German is desirable but not always essential. Depending on the subject area, communication may only be in English. English should therefore be spoken at a fluent level. However, to help them feel at home, we recommend that all students acquire basic knowledge in the relevant national language prior to an internship, as interpersonal relations frequently depend on language.  
Yes, Bayer offers students the opportunity to gain initial work experience during their semester vacations. No vacation opportunities can be offered to high school graduates or students who are not continuing their studies after the semester vacation.  
If you are applying for vacation work during the semester vacation in spring, you should submit your application from August 1 to October 31 in the previous year. If you are looking for work for the summer semester vacations, you will need to apply from January 1 to March 30 of the same year. Further information can be found here.  
We offer a wide range of jobs in offices, labs, warehouses and production plants, including shift work. Vacation jobs offered to students are temporary. We regret that we cannot always offer students a job that reflects their course of study.  
During the winter vacation, the minimum period is six weeks for university students and four weeks for technical college students. In the summer vacation, the minimum period of employment for students and school students is eight weeks. Students who work for more than eight weeks are required to pay full social security contributions  
Students are normally paid in line with salary group E 1. Remuneration is currently around €2,100 gross (for the North-Rhine area) or approx. €2,084 gross (for the Berlin area)  
Students are required to provide details of their health insurance status if they wish to work at Bayer. Employment is dependent on membership of a health insurance fund. If your work is not a mandatory internship and you earn more than €400 a month, you will be subject to social insurance contributions. In the case of accidents at work, students are covered by the Employer's Accident Liability Insurance Association while they are working for Bayer.  
Students are entitled to two vacation days per full month worked. Leave can only be taken if it fits in with the unit’s operational considerations. In view of the short period worked and operational requirements, students do not normally take their leave allowance but instead have the unused leave remunerated at the end of the period of employment.  
We regret that we cannot provide accommodation for students. However, we are happy to help them find accommodation via an agency (see also the Accommodation information brochure in the download section).  
If you are interested in working with Bayer on your undergraduate dissertation, you should send an application with all application documents in the same way as for an internship by going to the “ Internships/Dissertation” section and selecting whether you are doing a commercial, technical or scientific dissertation. An application can contain a proposal for a dissertation title or key focus. We will look for a suitable position and a mentor for your work at the company. You should contact a lecturer from your university who supports and assesses the work and agrees the topic. The conditions are otherwise the same as for internships.

Commercial dissertation
Technical dissertation
Scientific dissertation  
Vacation work is not advertised as it is only available during the semester vacations and on a full-time basis. Applicants can apply for vacation work via a direct link during the application period.  
Yes, all former interns can use our BayFellows Internet platform, where they can network with past and present interns, scholarship holders and trainees.  
As a graduate you are now poised to start your career. This section gives you the answers to key questions.  
Support for young professionals is very important at Bayer, regardless of whether they are taken on as direct entry employees or enter the company via the graduate trainee program. In addition to line managers, experienced specialists frequently act as mentors to facilitate integration into the company, provide access to internal networks and act as career development coaches.  
Bayer employees attend trade fairs in Germany almost all year round to advise students, graduates and young professionals on the opportunities available for joining Bayer. Further information is available here. The Facebook career page “BayerKarriere” also offers an opportunity for making direct contact with company representatives and provides an insight into the day-to-day work of a Bayer employee through various blog entries.  
Engineers are generally recruited on an “on-the-job” basis, i.e. with a defined area of responsibility. Key areas are technical development, engineering and construction.
The main tasks here are process development, technical plant management and plant planning. Subsequent job rotation inside and outside Germany is possible in principle.
Direct entry is possible throughout the year.  
The focus is on research and development. Depending on the subject area, there is also the option of finding an opening in analytics, information and knowledge management, internal consulting and marketing. Direct entry is possible throughout the year.  
If you have chosen to specialize in IT, Bayer offers a variety of career opportunities in areas such as “Finance & Accounting Consulting (SAP)”, where you will be responsible for tasks such as devising, analyzing, designing and implementing solutions in the global SAP systems, providing our customers with technical and system-related support and working with the applicable accounting and system standards within the scope of the projects. Job opportunities for IT specialists are determined by the focus of their training. Specific responsibilities include installing and setting up IT infrastructures, PC services and network services, implementing software, providing and operating HR systems, etc.  
Economists can start their careers at Bayer via direct entry or a trainee program. Vacancies can be found on our careers page under “Job Search”.
Bayer currently offers three trainee programs – the Graduate Development Program, the HR Trainee Program and the international Supply Chain Management Trainee Program. Further information can be found here.  
Questions about employment and promotion opportunities for professionals with experience are answered here.  
The HR development philosophy at Bayer places special emphasis on developing from the company's own ranks. Bayer offers interesting international career opportunities for job rotation, project assignments and foreign assignments. For example, managers from Inhouse Consulting are often recruited for positions at the individual companies. However, we regularly have vacancies for experienced external managers that can be found by using our “Job Search”.  
A key aim of HR development at Bayer is to identify “high potentials” so as to systematically nurture and develop them through challenging tasks, project assignments, foreign assignments and selected top-level seminars. Internal assessment centers are also offered and regular feedback meetings held on the initiative of the employee's supervisor.  
As well as the basic salary, Bayer offers its employees short- and long-term incentives such as variable salary components based on the company’s success and the employee’s personal performance, individual one-off payments for particularly outstanding performance and a stock participation program.

Further incentives may include:
- Bayer mutual fund
- Deferred compensation for retirement
- Company leasing car
- Long-term accounts  
By employing personal worktime models or setting up a home office, Bayer meets the various needs of its employees, enabling them to combine their professional and private lives. Employees can also build up a balance from their various time and income elements in a personal long-term account to retire earlier by using paid leave.
In Berlin and Monheim, the company operates its own children's daycare centers with 140 and 60 places respectively. Bayer has an additional 210 places available to Bayer employees at four other children’s daycare centers in Leverkusen. Employees are also provided with support in looking for carers for children or dependents requiring care.

Since the end of the 1980s, Bayer employees have been able to interrupt their employment for up to seven years – taking into account maternity periods and statutory parental leave – to look after their children.  
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