Recruiting Exceptional GraduatesWe’re at our best when you’re at yours. Power to you

Ronald Schellekens

Recruiting Exceptional GraduatesRecruiting Exceptional Graduates

A message from Ronald Schellekens

Testimonial: Nekane at her best

Welcome to Vodafone

Discover our graduate programme

Testimonial: Cedric at his best

Discover our World of opportunities

Testimonials: Manvi at her best

Jinglong at his best

Columbus

Drive to keep growing

Testimonials: A World of opportunities

Delivering great results

What it takes to be successful

Testimonial: An industry leading company that

empowers people to shape their World

ContentsAt Vodafone, if you’ve got the drive to deliver great results, we have the development programmes and opportunities in place for you to fulfil your leadership potential at every stage of your professional journey.

Our graduate scheme is about experiencing different parts of our business, but it’s also about doing exceptional work. From your first day with us, you will be accountable for delivering great results in a role that has an impact on our customers.

We don’t expect you to do everything on your own, your placements will see you working with a global team of exceptional people at an industry leading company that empowers people to shape their world.

Group HR Director

Welcome to Vodafone

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

At Vodafone, we offer exceptional careers to exceptional graduates from top universities around the world. We hire more than 600 graduates per year across our global footprint, and you could be one of them. Our truly multi-national working environment is reflected in us having over 55 nationalities in our graduate population. This helps us create the innovation and variety that multi-cultural teams enjoy.

We are on an exciting transformation journey from a mobile player with a consumer focus and a predominantly European footprint to:

• A scale data company investing into 3G, 4G and fixed broadband;

• A strong player in Enterprise: Growing Vodafone Global Enterprise, M2M, Cloud and Hosting and Unified Communications

• A leader in emerging markets

• A selective innovator in services such as mobile payments

Our purpose is to empower everybody to be confidently connected:

• Mobile operations in 26 countries, and a further 53 partner markets

• 438 million mobile customers and 11 million fixed broadband customers

• Over 100,000 employees

Our brand is at the heart of what we do. Consumers join us to celebrate Vodafone Firsts and our enterprise customers transform their companies as we help them become Ready Businesses.

All of this reflects our ambition to be an admired company in the hearts of customers around the world.

Nekane at her bestI transform lives and businesses by connecting machines. As a graduate on the machine to machine commercial team, I have worked on amazing and innovative projects connecting anything from cars and planes to coffee and vending machines. Working for the machine to machine market leader that connects over 18.6 million devices means that I’m able to apply my skills into innovative technologies.

Nekane Discover Programme Vodafone Spain

85% of our employees feel proud to work for Vodafone.

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Discover our core functions: • Consumer marketing • Retail • Enterprise • Technology • Finance • Legal/Public Affairs • HR

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Discover our graduate programme Vodafone’s global Discover graduate programme empowers you to shape your world right from the start of your career.

Joining Vodafone as a Discover graduate means:

• Working for an industry leading company that spans across different market sectors around the World

• Having business exposure and accountability from your first day

• Gaining experience from rotations in different areas of the business

• Being part of a global community of graduates

Your journey through the Discover programme is built to ensure you have an understanding of the wider business beyond one role. Each function across the programme is designed to provide the necessary training and exposure to empower you to discover the areas in which you’re at your best.

Cedric Discover Programme Vodacom DRC

Discover Role 2nd Year

1st YearTraining & Personal

Development

1st Year2 x Cross Functional

Rotations

1st YearCustomer Facing

Introduction

Your Discover experience could look like this

Cedric at his bestI’m implementing Vodafone’s industry-leading mobile payment system M-Pesa to help parents pay school fees quickly, remotely and securely from their phones, without having to travel into cities to pay in person. I’m using the latest technology to make a real difference to people’s lives. We transfer over $1.3bn per month between our customers through our 287,000 M-Pesa outlets.

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Discover our World of opportunitiesAcross 26 countries and spanning 5 continents, we empower everybody to be confidently connected. Our world of opportunities awaits those of you who have the drive to keep growing. With such an exhilarating and diverse programme on offer, competition for the few spaces available is tough.

Once you’ve made your choice regarding country and function, apply on line: www.vodafone.com/graduates

Designed to test your problem-solving skills, the tests will tell us whether you’re capable of working with different types of information, thinking through problems from a fresh perspective and are comfortable with complexity and explaining your thinking to others.

How passionate are you about shaping your world? That’s what we’ll be lookingto find out. We’ll also get to know you better and understand what motivatesyou. It’s also a great opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have.

Taking place throughout the year, our assessment centres give you the chanceto meet us and find out what life at Vodafone is really like. The assessment day will include group exercises, presentation and an interview.

You won’t have to wait long to find out whether you’ve been offered a place on the programme. We’ll let you know the news soon after the assessment. We may even let you know on the day itself. If successful, you’ll then receive a formal offer. The next step will be getting ready to shape your world!

Online Testing Interview Assessment Centre The Offer

Online Testing

Designed to test your problem-solving skills, the tests will tell us whether you’re capable of working with different types of information, thinking through problems from a fresh perspective and are comfortable with complexity and explaining your thinking to others.

Interview Assessment Centre The Offer

How passionate are you about shaping your world? That’s what we’ll be looking

better and understand what motivates you. It’s also a great opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have.

Taking place throughout the year, our assessment centres give you the chance

is really like. The assessment day will include group exercises, presentation and an interview.

whether you’ve been offered a place on the program. We’ll let you know the news soon after the assessment. We may even let you know on the day itself. If successful, you’ll then receive a formal offer. The next step will be getting ready to shape your world!

Online Testing

Designed to test your problem-solving skills, the tests will tell us whether you’re capable of working with different types of information, thinking through problems from a fresh perspective and are comfortable with complexity and explaining your thinking to others.

Interview Assessment Centre The Offer

How passionate are you about shaping your world? That’s what we’ll be looking

better and understand what motivates you. It’s also a great opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have.

Taking place throughout the year, our assessment centres give you the chance

is really like. The assessment day will include group exercises, presentation and an interview.

whether you’ve been offered a place on the program. We’ll let you know the news soon after the assessment. We may even let you know on the day itself. If successful, you’ll then receive a formal offer. The next step will be getting ready to shape your world!

Online Testing

Designed to test your problem-solving skills, the tests will tell us whether you’re capable of working with different types of information, thinking through problems from a fresh perspective and are comfortable with complexity and explaining your thinking to others.

Interview Assessment Centre The Offer

How passionate are you about shaping your world? That’s what we’ll be looking

better and understand what motivates you. It’s also a great opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have.

Taking place throughout the year, our assessment centres give you the chance

is really like. The assessment day will include group exercises, presentation and an interview.

whether you’ve been offered a place on the program. We’ll let you know the news soon after the assessment. We may even let you know on the day itself. If successful, you’ll then receive a formal offer. The next step will be getting ready to shape your world!

Online Testing

Designed to test your problem-solving skills, the tests will tell us whether you’re capable of working with different types of information, thinking through problems from a fresh perspective and are comfortable with complexity and explaining your thinking to others.

Interview Assessment Centre The Offer

How passionate are you about shaping your world? That’s what we’ll be looking

better and understand what motivates you. It’s also a great opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have.

Taking place throughout the year, our assessment centres give you the chance

is really like. The assessment day will include group exercises, presentation and an interview.

whether you’ve been offered a place on the program. We’ll let you know the news soon after the assessment. We may even let you know on the day itself. If successful, you’ll then receive a formal offer. The next step will be getting ready to shape your world!

Manvi Vodafone India

Manvi at her bestAs a product manager, I manage a very exciting portfolio including Mobile Security, Mobile Applications, VAS and mobile Analytics. I design products which enable customers to make their businesses more agile, ready and secure. Businesses in India are implementing World class solutions and processes to deliver better results, and I’m helping make Vodafone a key partner on their growth journey.

We’re at our best when you’re at yours.Vodafone.com/graduates

Naomi, Nekane, Franziska,Beril, Ani, Cedric, Manvi, Jinglong

Columbus

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Discover is only the start of your journey at Vodafone.

Excel and show you have what it takes to become a future leader at Vodafone, you will be one of the top 5-10% of Discover graduates that experience an accelerated 2 year international assignment in one of our markets.

Being part of our global Columbus programme will further develop your functional competencies, build your leadership capabilities and grow your global network.

We want our leaders to understand our business and our people, and Columbus gives you the opportunity to experience it first-hand.

What’s on offer?

Acceleratedcareer movements into leadershippositions

Opportunity to learn and develop more outside your comfort zone

A global opportunity to learn about another local business

A chance to work with a diverse group of people

What’s on offer?

Acceleratedcareer movements into leadershippositions

Opportunity to learn and develop more outside your comfort zone

A global opportunity to learn about another local business

A chance to work with a diverse group of people

Jinglong at his bestI like using my knowledge and leadership skills to drive the exciting innovation in Networks. Most recently, I’ve been on a small cells global pilot, which will see better coverage of mobiles using small cellular hotspots. I am leading a new way to plan, build and run a better network for the future.

Jinglong Vodafone Netherlands

A World of opportunities

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Testimonial

The Columbus programme gave me the amazing opportunity to move from Germany to Qatar. As Terminals Marketing Manager I’ve launched the country’s first handset trade-in program and I am privileged to work with partners like Microsoft, Apple and Samsung. Vodafone Qatar has helped me expand my cultural horizons enabling me to better the community I’m a part of.

I chose Vodafone because it is a strong global brand. At Vodafone, as a Discover and Columbus a world of opportunities opens to you: you have the unique opportunity to work in a different market where the teams are extremely inclusive and supportive.

I am at my best when I spot new opportunities and develop close relationships with partners such as Microsoft to introduce unique offers to our customers is what drives me every day. I am at my best when I can challenge ideas and deliver great results with bright and diverse individuals across the organisation.

I would advise new colleagues to focus on building strong networks and reach out to peers and management, seeking for feedback and support. Show drive to keep growing: own your development and success, communicate about your goals, challenges and accomplishments.

Lan Anh Columbus, Vodafone Qatar

I am at my best when I can challenge ideas and deliver great results with bright and diverse individuals across the organisation.

“ “Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

At Vodafone we:• Create a working culture that is inclusive by all

• Commit to helping you perform at your best and realise your full potential

• Promote, provide and practice flexible working

• Provide a supportive environment for parents returning to work after time off

• Network cross-functionally and cross-culturally

• Develop our people through of our award winning functional academies

• Offer a World of opportunities…

Drive to keep growingOur leaders have a big impact on our people’s engagement and performance. To support our leaders in developing the behaviours and skills they need to lead at Vodafone, we have globally aligned leadership development programmes for each of our leadership levels – from front-line leaders to functional and business leaders. This means that whether you are a leader in Hungary, New Zealand, Germany or South Africa, you will experience the same fantastic training and development opportunities.

Right from the start of your career, you will have access to our award winning learning academies, build your functional capabilities through our excellence programmes and develop on the job through feedback and coaching.

Once you have been at your best and displayed a strong potential for more, you might get invited to our Inspire programme. On Inspire, the very best people from around the world get an accelerated personal development programme preparing them to step up and potentially become global functional or business leaders.

I’m at my best when taking on new challenges.“

“Delivering great results

I joined Vodafone as a Discover Graduate in India before going on a 2 year international assignment to Italy. Columbus for me was enlivening, enriching and enjoyable, with the right enablers to deliver great results.

I chose Vodafone because the focus is on delivering great results. Going the extra mile gets recognized and rewarded, a great motivation for someone at the beginning of his/her career.

My advice to future colleagues is to make the most of your graduate positions and get the right experiences early on. This helps to build your network, and create working relationships with people around the globe.

I am at my best when taking on new challenges. During my Columbus assignment in Italy, I led a project where we worked across Vodafone’s global footprint to hire female talent into our technology business from a range of different countries.

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Adrian Columbus, Vodafone Italy

Testimonial

What it takes to be successful1 Live

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Support from othersShadowing, seeking coachingand mentorship, asking for feedback,following role models, and getting exposure to the managements team

On the jobRole change, additional responsibilities,on-the-job learning and developmentopportunities via talent review

Learning Tools/EventsTraining, online research blogs, conferences and books

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Support from othersShadowing, seeking coachingand mentorship, asking for feedback,following role models, and getting exposure to the managements team

On the jobRole change, additional responsibilities,on-the-job learning and developmentopportunities via talent review

Learning Tools/EventsTraining, online research blogs, conferences and books

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Deliver great resultsVodafone is a fast paced organisation that expects great delivery year after year. As we move into new technologies and markets, this ensures that we remain an industry leading company that helps people shape their world. The programme combines tailored development and on the job training to enable you to deliver results in a “real job” from day 1.

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Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

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VodafoneWay

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to keep growing

Deliver great

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3Alwaysdoing

what's right

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Support from othersShadowing, seeking coachingand mentorship, asking for feedback,following role models, and getting exposure to the managements team

On the jobRole change, additional responsibilities,on-the-job learning and developmentopportunities via talent review

Learning Tools/EventsTraining, online research blogs, conferences and books

10%

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We’re at our best when

you’re at yours. Power to you

Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

Bogdan Columbus, Vodafone Netherlands

Testimonial

Being at my best by improving our network, I’m empowering everybody to be confidently connected.“

“An industry leading company that empowers people to shape their WorldI moved from Romania to The Netherlands into an industry leading technical role. As a Transmission Architect, I am responsible for delivering and planning the three year Network strategy for the Transmission domain. I’m looking into new technology and innovative solutions to ensure we are always one step ahead of our competitors and are able to deliver the great results for our customers.

Vodafone is an industry leading company, which empowers people to shape their World. Being at my best by improving our network, I’m empowering everybody to be confidently connected.

My advice to new Discovers is to get involved in as many projects as you can, breadth of experience and building your network is vital, and will help you develop/ be direct with your feedback.

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Live The Vodafone Way• The Vodafone Way is our culture. It’s how we do things in a new and shared way across Vodafone worldwide to be a more successful organisation and to beat our competition. The Vodafone Way describes the set of values we live by as a company. Values that help us win the trust and admiration of our customers so they become strong advocates of Vodafone.

Drive to keep growing• At Vodafone, you own your own career development. The company provides you with the tools and opportunities to thrive. It starts with your induction, when you are exposed to The Vodafone Way behaviour traits, the company culture and the basics of the telecommunications industry.

• Continuous learning at Vodafone is based on the 70-20-10 rule. Research shows that most people acquire 70% of their skills through “on the job” experience, new challenges, project work and meaningful assignments. You will gain 20% of your learning through working with exceptional people, and support from your teams. The final 10% comes from Vodafone’s award winning academies, made up of online tools and development programmes.

Always doing what’s right• Integrity drives our actions. We all know that being an admired company is not just about our performance and achievements; it’s also about acting in an ethical and responsible way.

• Social responsibility – Our ambition is to contribute to sustainable living by delivering connectivity and innovative services to our customers.

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Recruiting Exceptional Graduates

We’re at our bestwhen you’re at yours.Power to you

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