Christine Theuer
- Hays AG
- Willy-Brandt-Platz 1-3
- 68161 Mannheim
Create opportunities
Discover talents
Helping people succeed. Making businesses strong. Creating opportunities that change life for the better. We also pursue this aim with our “Helping for your tomorrow” programme. It bundles all charitable and voluntary commitments made by our company and our employees. Our target: Using “Helping for your tomorrow” to promote the employability of people who may not have the same opportunities as others. To empower them to master upcoming challenges. And to positively influence the working world of tomorrow – today, by creating sustainable structures that endure in a continuously evolving economic and social environment.
Taking social responsibility has always been part of the Hays DNA: We have always committed ourselves to corporate citizenship and to supporting non-profit projects.
Working together for more inclusion:
Hays receives the IOD ‘Inclusive Workplace’ award
Hays was honoured with the prestigious IOD ‘Inclusive Workplace’ award in Munich on 3 July 2025. The jury honoured our sustained commitment to more equal opportunities and inclusion in the world of work.
According to Statista, 7.9 million people in Germany live with a severe disability. Yet only 48.4 per cent of them are in employment. This figure shows how great the challenges still are for people with disabilities or chronic illnesses on the primary labour market.
This is precisely where we come in with our corporate volunteering programme Helping for your tomorrow: We pave the way for disadvantaged people into the world of work and create opportunities that change lives for the better. For example, through our partnership with the Austrian social enterprise myAbility, in whose talent programme our employees are involved: In 1:1 mentoring sessions, they pass on their expertise in career and job counselling as well as application training to young people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. At the same time, they offer them qualified support in their job search and orientation.
In 2024, Hays mentors supported 53 participants in the myAbility Talent Programme. The impact measurement shows: The mentees feel better connected after the programme, know their strengths and go into their professional future stronger.
Being honoured with the IOD Award is an incentive for us to continue on our chosen path - for more participation, for more prospects, for a working world that leaves no one behind.
Hays wins HR Excellence Award 2023
We received the HR Excellence Award 2023 in the Sustainability Management & Social Engagement category for our corporate volunteering programme Helping for your tomorrow.
Why? Because we deliberately approach our CSR commitment differently than many others. To pave the way into the world of work for people with fewer opportunities, we don't rely on the donation can, but on skills-based volunteering. And thus on what we do best: With the help of application days, mentoring, CV checks and coaching, we support disadvantaged people in finding their place in the world of work. This is how we create opportunities that change lives for the better. This is how we counteract the shortage of skilled labour. And last but not least, we give our employees a new sense of purpose in their work.
In building this bridge to a more equal working world, we do not act in isolation, but in close cooperation with our strategic partner organisations JOBLINGE, Haus des Stiftens, Queermentor and MyAbility - ensuring that we have a truly sustainable and profound social impact.
We feel very strongly about
equality of opportunity
That is why we will increasingly focus on "skills-based volunteering" in the future, an approach that goes beyond the traditional, purely monetary donation. Instead of money, we - as an organisation and as individuals - donate time and know-how. In this way, we achieve a more sustainable and deeper social impact with our commitment than would be possible with a traditional donation. Our employees, who are given up to one day off per year as volunteers, gain a new sense of their own abilities and the meaningfulness of their work by broadening their horizon.
Download Whitepaper
Our parent company Hays plc, with the support of Oxford Economics, has published a white paper on the specific (work-related) challenges faced by these groups.
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