Schindler Career Development Program

Education
We are searching for candidates holding a master‘s degree in business or engineering who want to join one of our three functional career tracks: Engineering, Field Operations (Sales & Marketing), Business Administration.

Skill set and characteristics
To be successful in this demanding program, you will need highly developed skills and defined success characteristics. The starting point for Schindler‘s Career Development Program is an excellent academic record (among top 20% of class), demonstrated leadership, English language proficiency, an international mindset, and the desire to work globally.

Standards and integrity
We expect all of our employees to act with the utmost integrity. High ethical standards are a cornerstone in ensuring the reliability and safety of our products for our people and customers around the world.

Do you have leadership talent?
We expect program participants to meet extraordinary challenges – not only during the program but especially when holding a key management position after having completed the program. This is why we would like to see a passion for leadership already before you enter the program: you should aspire to be a leader and understand that getting people to follow your lead requires efforts above and beyond a typical position at Schindler or any other firm.

Lifelong learning
To succeed in our program, you need a desire to rapidly build on your existing skills: you will arrive with a degree, an existing set of relevant academic and extracurricular or professional skills, and we will also want to see that you are eager to enhance your skills and develop expertise. You will need an attitude of commitment, a personal initiative to meet challenge, and to bring in new ideas.