45 Competitive workforceHR Big 4 and Group strategy Service culture Talent agenda HR@2012 Up with the best: numerous German and international employer awards. International talent management further expanded. Women’s quota: target for 2011 surpassed with well over 24 percent of women in middle and senior management worldwide. 9,600 trainees in Germany alone, 1,200 of them students on cooperative courses. Award-winning: Telekom as an employer. Our clear goal is to regularly be included among the best in the rankings of top em- ployers by 2015. In 2011, we significantly improved in the rele- vant graduate studies, such as the Trendence and Universum studies. In the ranking by IT graduates for Trendence we took 17th place and in the Universum study, 12th place; in that study we ranked higher than popular employers from the automotive industry for the first time. Furthermore, in Germany, our corporate customer arm T-Systems took third place overall in the Top Auto- motive Employer 2011 award. In Europe, our national companies scored highly. In Austria, T-Systems received the award for best employer for career start- ers and was placed among the highest rankings in the Great Place to Work competition. T-Systems achieved other number 1 spots as the Top ICT Employer in the Netherlands, and as IT Company and Company of the Year 2011 in Slovakia; it also made the podium in the Czech Republic in the Employer of the Region competition. At the same time, T-Mobile Austria was named Most Attractive Employer and T-Mobile Netherlands and PTC (Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa) were named Top Employers 2011. Prizes and awards. Other outstanding achievements by Deutsche Telekom abroad, e.g., by: T-Systems Slovakia as “IT Company” and as “Company of the Year 2011” T-Systems Czech Republic in the “Employer of the region” competition T-Mobile Austria as “Most Attractive Employer” T-Mobile Netherlands and PTC (Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa) as “Top Employers 2011”