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Continental AGCorporate Employer Branding & Strategic RecruitingVahrenwalder Str. 9 | 30165 HanoverP. O. Box 169 | 30001 HanoverGermanywww.careers-continental.comwww.facebook.com/ContinentalKarriere

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Are you motivated to master techni-cal challenges and develop the future of automobiles at one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers and trend-setting technology corpora-tions?

Do you have the confidence to make visions reality and promote innovations?

Do you value passion, commitment, respect and teamwork? Furthermore, are you open to a change and willing constantly to develop and learn?

Then welcome and start your career with us. At Continental.

Sincerely,

Elke StrathmannMember of the Executive Board

Get on board and get started – we have a wide range of challenging activities waiting for you. We offer students, graduates and experienced professionals exciting opportunities in the global automotive supplier market.

Safety, the environment, information, and affordable cars – the four mega-trends in the automotive industry. We are involved each day in shaping these trends, making individual mobility safer, more comfortable and sus-tainable. To make sure we continue to do so in the future, we are looking for bright minds to develop tomorrow’s mobility today.

With us, you can expect a lot, espe-cially one thing in particular: people driven by the idea of doing great things, always giving their best and letting their actions speak for them-selves. You can look forward to an inspiring environment, shaped by openness, integrity, team spirit and equal opportunities, where your personal commitment is also properly appreciated.

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Develop the automotive future together with us – with Continental

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6 Continental8 Corporate Culture & Corporate Social Responsibility9 Vision 12 History13 Future Automotive Megatrends14 Continental Worldwide17 Locations18 Businesses & Divisions

26 Who We’re Looking For28 Your Profile29 Students29 Graduates29 Experienced Professionals32 Soft Skills33 Hard Facts

34 Your Application35 Apply Online

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ContactContinental AG | Corporate Employer Branding & Strategic RecruitingVahrenwalder Str. 9 | 30165 HanoverP. O. Box 169 | 30001 HanoverGermany

Continental is an equal opportunity employer.

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Continental

“I have the drive to deliver high perfomance,and the company gives me the right navigation system to go with it.”

Franziska NeefGroup Leader Product Development | Truck Tires Retread

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Corporate social responsibilityTreating people and the environment responsibly plays a fundamental role in our success as a global corporation. That is why we at Continental are committed to sustainable social and ecological responsibility.

We think you should start getting to know our culture. So, here’s some help in navigating through our values and beliefs. Look forward to:

qA culture of high performance A culture in which high performance thrives awaits you at Continental. It inspires the actions of every individu-al, as well as the teams, throughout Continental worldwide.

qStriving for the bestYou have ambitious goals? Very good, because we do, too. For this reason, each of us strives for the best in our respective business practices.

qCooperation and teamworkThe spirit of cooperation drives all teams and divisions within the corpo-ration – across all levels and cultures worldwide.

qResponsibility and managementEach individual takes full responsibil-ity for their actions and performance at all times. But we make sure that you’re not left alone. Our company executives foster a climate of open-ness that encourages individual re-sponsibility and widens your limits of performance – always for the good of your professional advancement and for the good of the company.

qLearning and knowledge managementDo you like learning? Great – we do, as well. We make information easily accessible throughout the corporation, and develop programs to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise. For example, we offer a variety of life-long learning opportunities.

Top performers need drive and direction and sometimes a little help with navigation.

Continental | Corporate Culture & Corporate Social Responsibility Vision | Continental

Our corporate culture:

Shapers of the future need to have ideas and a vision.

Our vision:

qHighly developed, intelligent technologies for mobility, transport and processing make up our world.

qWe want to provide the best solutions for each of our customers in each of our markets.

qAll of our stakeholders will thus come to recognize us as the most value-creating, highly reliable and respected partner.

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“At Continental, progress has been a tradition for close to 140 years.And for me, it’s my daily motivation.”

Continental | History

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We have our eyes set on the future of mobility and can look back on an eventful past. Here’s our history in fast-forward:

In 1871, Continental-Caoutchouc- und Gutta-Percha Compagnie is founded in Hanover as a joint stock company. Manufacturing at the main factory includes soft rubber products, rubberized fabrics, and solid tires for carriages and bicycles. The foundation for success was laid in Germany, but it crossed borders even back then: Louis Blériot, the French aviation pi-oneer, writes history in 1909 with the first flight across the English Channel. Continental Aeroplan material covers the fuselage and wings of his plane.

The success story continues. Innova-tion and expansion are the engines of progress. In 1955, air spring bellows are developed for buses and trucks. Mergers with major companies in the German rubber sector and various acquisitions in the following decades strengthen the company’s market position. The formation of the Auto-

motive Systems division in 1995 pro-vides an entry into the automotive industry’s systems business. In 1997, Continental unveils ISAD, the key technology for hybrid systems and is awarded industry’s most prestigious innovation prize in Germany.

In another milestone, the automotive brake and chassis unit is successful-ly integrated into the division a year later. Expertise is improved and busi-ness units are expanded: through the acquisition of Phoenix in 2004, ContiTech becomes the world’s larg-est specialist for rubber and plastics technology outside the tire industry. In 2007, Continental acquires Sie-mens VDO Automotive AG, becoming one of the world’s leading automotive suppliers.

Take an active part in writing our upcoming history – another exciting chapter of the automotive future is waiting for you.

Our history – close to 140 years of tradition and progress

Keeping its sights on the automotive megatrends, Continental is developing mobility for everyone.

qSafetyWe want people to relax when they drive and arrive at their destination safely. Our know-how helps improve driving safety.

qEnvironmentOur vision is to reduce the emission of pollutants to zero and thereby make a decisive contribution to reducing CO2 emissions – a global priority.

qInformationWe are developing sophisticated information management systems in the vehicle, to make driving as enjoyable as possible by providing as much information as necessary.

qAffordable carsWe are investing specifically in prod-ucts and systems for affordable cars, to make mobility accessible to all.

We will continue firmly on this path and look forward to your contribution.

Our success story would never have been written without the passion and dedication of all the people who give their best every day.

The future of Continental began in 1871 – your own career is about to start now.

Make our success story your own. We will give you the opportunity to develop your own concepts and visions. With us, your ideas will meet with sympathetic ears, because we know that your personality and your commitment are vital keys to innovation and progress.

Welcome to Continental.

Your future – a success story at Continental

Our history ...

Continental | History Future Automotive Megatrends | Continental

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“At home in Hanover. Active around the world.”

Continental | Worldwide

Liesse AbdouHead of Product Industrialization | Platform development and Industrialization

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Europe, Asia, North and South America,Africa and Australia – we’re offering youa world of opportunities

Continental:worldwide

Continental | Worldwide Locations | Continental

You’re based at an office in Hano-ver, Germany, but you travel all over the world – that may be one way of describing your future radius of action. How do you envisage your fu-ture? Working at international level? Or would you prefer to stay local? Whatever your choice, you’ll find your place in this company.

At Continental, we take a no-limit approach to mapping your career.

Whether you put your skills to use in Hanover, Timisoara or Budapest – new experiences are waiting for you all over Europe. If you’ve always dreamed of achieving something spectacular, then go ahead. We’re giving you the opportunity to do just that.

You can be part of the world’s fastest economic development and techno-

logical progress – in Shanghai, the most important industrial city of the People’s Republic of China. Or you can master great challenges and experience new cultures in India. In Bangalore, for instance, India’s third most populous city.

Moving on from the Asian continent to America: the U.S.A. Take your professional career to the land of op-portunity, and anything is possible. What about Brazil? In Guarulhos, a suburb of São Paulo – the country’s most significant center of commerce and finance, as well as arts and enter-tainment – a multicultural team awaits you, together with whom you can work on exciting projects and contin-ue your own personal advancement.

There’s plenty of scope for your ideas – at Continental, worldwide.

Nearly 200 locations for production and research & development in more than 40 countries

Mayra Bittencourt Villalpando | Guarulhos | Brazil“Working in a globally active company like Continental, I am aware each day of the dynamic network linking people around the world. This makes for fascinat-ing cultural exchange and personal advancement.”

Vivekananda Rao | Bangalore | India“I’m highly motivated because Continental offers me a working environment where I am free to implement my ideas.”

Michael Nimser | Berlin | Germany“Collaborating in the field of hybrid and electro-mobility, making a new, eco-friendly form of private transport possible, is simply very exciting and interesting. Our team provides concepts for making this new technology accessible and, above all, absolutely safe for end consumers.”

Changmin Zhong | Shanghai | China“My work at Continental is fun and full of challenges. Each day, I have to adapt to internal and external changes. In Continental R&D, I have a lot of opportunities to further my technical skills and advance my career. I like working in such an inter-nationally oriented, dynamic company.”

Ping WangLogistik und Einkaufsleiterin | ContiTech China

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“In the past, my visions would often end up as nothing more than daydreams. Today, I turn those visions into reality in the divisions.”

Continental | Businesses & Divisions

Ping WangHead of Logistics and Purchasing | ContiTech China

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Is it in your nature to strive to do your best? Do this at full force: Powertrain Division

Powertrain Division | Continental

Are you driven to perfection? Is passion your fuel? Then pick up speed, put your foot down and take off – in our Powertrain Division.

Our goal is to be the global market and technological leader in economic and environmentally-sound driving, with high performance products for everything relating to the powertrain.

“Experience passion-driven mobility” is the motto for employees working all around the world on making ve-hicle powertrain systems even more efficient and environmentally friendly without ruining the fun of driving.

Emission-free travel of the future starts here today, with us: our precise Piezo injection has set standards in terms of consumption and emissions for diesel and spark-ignition engines. Our hybrid and electric drives take the trend toward greater efficien-cy one step further. Powertrain is a product expert and system partner for vehicle manufacturers in every stage of development.

Take off with Powertrain. We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

For some, safety awareness is yesterday’sidea. For others, the vision of tomorrow: Chassis & Safety Division

Continental | Chassis & Safety Division

We are convinced that innovative technologies will make accident-free driving possible in the future – for all vehicle categories and in all the world’s markets. Take on some of the responsibility for this in our Chassis & Safety Division.

Chassis & Safety combines sophis-ticated know-how with maximum quality for active and passive driving safety. As experts in driving dynam-ics, we both develop and produce technologies that inseparably com-bine safety with driving pleasure.

Preventing accidents and protecting people is our goal. Vision Zero, accident-free traffic, is our objective. And we call our concept for achieving this objective ContiGuard®.

You don’t think a box, but in catego-ries like safety, future and innovation? Would you like to work together with us to make accident-free driving a reality?

Then this is the right place for you. The Chassis & Safety Division.

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You can’t keep reinventing the wheel?We can prove the exact opposite:In the Tire Division

Tire Division | Continental

You can’t keep reinventing the wheel?We can prove the exact opposite:In the Tire Division.

In the Tire Division we set ourselves the challenge of making an excellent product even better, each and every day. Highly qualified specialists work in state-of-the-art technology centers to continuously improve high-tech tires.

We work closely with nearly all leading vehicle manufacturers, and with our premium tire brand, Continental, we occupy a leading position not just in the European original equipment mar-ket.

Driven by the desire to make individual

mobility even safer, more comfortable and more sustainable, we reach new heights with each generation of tires for passenger cars, trucks, buses, motorbikes, bicycles and industrial vehicles in terms of safety, quality and performance.

In our business with truck, bus and industrial tires, our customers are en-trepreneurs with high demands. The broad scope of requirements that our tires and services have to fulfill in the different countries of their use - that is what makes working in our team espe-cially challenging and varied.

Keep on reinventing the wheel together with us: in the Tire Division.

Do you know about the art of information management? Then we’re the right one for you: Interior Division

Do you know the value of having the right information at the right time, and are you willing to dedicate yourself fully to this task? Then welcome to the Interior Division.

We are a global market and techno-logical leader in managing informa-tion between the vehicle, driver and passengers, between vehicles, and between the vehicle and the outside world.

Our “Always On” vision applies every-where in the world. Our strategy: we inform you well, we connect – all at lower cost. Our concrete goal: optim-izing the flow of information and de-veloping intelligent new technologies to make vehicles more intuitive to

control and the relevant information easy to understand.

One of our strengths is our complete and diversified product range. From instrument clusters and displays, through control devices for safety and comfort functions, to infotainment systems and telematic solutions. For cars, trucks and special-purpose vehicles alike. Furthermore, we also carry a very extensive product port-folio for replacement and high-wear parts. We are thus ideally positioned with our products.

Get on board and develop future-proof information management. Join the Interior Division.

Continental | Interior Division

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Overview Divisions | Continental

Our divisions –Your future!

Realize your visions in one of our new divisions:

qA safe bet for visionaries: Chassis & Safety Division

qIn the drive for top performance: Powertrain Division

qThe fine art of information management: Interior Division

qReinventing the wheel time and again: Tire Division

qShaping the future: ContiTech Division

We are world class when it comes to solving the needs of society. Help us shape a significant portion of the future: ContiTech Division

There is a name for globally unique expertise in rubber and plastics tech-nology for pioneering applications: ContiTech.

We are the preferred partner of many key industries, both established and new, when it comes to future-proof technologies. Our employees make a significant contribution to sus-tainable mobility, to power genera-tion and energy efficiency, to health, nutrition, and the environment. Our innovative products help trains glide smoothly along. They make for safe, fuel-efficient and comfortable driving. They help wind turbines generate energy efficiently and conveyor belts

transport raw materials in a climate-neutral, eco-friendly way. Safety suits reliably protect workers or disaster re-lief experts in their day-to-day work. And in the food industry, our products make sure that what consumers eat and drink is pure and healthy.

As a technological leader, we are developing the individual and tailor-made solutions that our customers around the world need.

Become a part of a strong, global and innovative team and help us shape a significant portion of the future. In the ContiTech Division.

ContiTech Division | Continental

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“Enhancing my skills – something I never tire of.”

Who We’re Looking For

Kumar KrishnamurthyTire Engineer for Passenger and Light Truck Tires | Platform Development and Industrialization

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Our employees represent the success and the reputation of the company.

As a dynamic company with flat hi-erarchical structures and flexible decision-making channels, we offer students, graduates, career starters or professionals an exciting and inter-national environment for a successful career.

You will be impressed by the diverse possibilities to promote your career at Continental.

We combine technological, ecologi-cal, economic and personal aspects of performance. That’s what makes Continental different.

We are eager to find out what your qualifications are and what ideas motivate you. It doesn’t matter if your professional passion is mainly techni-cal or commercial: if the automotive future makes your heart beat faster, then we’re the right choice for you.

We look forward to meeting you and developing your profile together with you.

Student, graduate or experienced professional?If your profile fits the bill, get in touch!

Students Gain experience while you are still studying by combining theory and practice at Continental. We offer exciting challenges in a wide range of fields and ambitious projects in teams. Grab the chance to make a start on your pro-fessional future with an internship, a thesis or as a working student – we are open to your ideas and will welcome you with open arms.

Graduates A variety of starting opportunities make it possible for you to apply in practice the knowledge you learnt during your studies, immediately after graduating. Vacancies or our talent initiatives are your admission ticket to the world of Continental. We will provide you with the skills you need to master your job and foster your ability to broaden your horizons.

Experienced professionals Do you know your subject and are you looking for a new task? Passion, team spirit and company-oriented thinking are in your blood? Then we can offer you the opportunity to add your experience to the mix. We would be happy to explain the various options to you in a personal meeting. See you there!

We’re looking for you!

Who We’re Looking For | Your Profile Students, Graduates, Experienced Professionals | Who We’re Looking For

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“Open communication needs open doors – and that’s exactly what I find at Continental.”

Who We’re Looking For

Marcus LieberumInternal Communications Officer | Corporate Communications

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We are looking for employees who combine personality with specialized skills and qualifications. Communica-tive people who are open to innovation, enjoy progress and want to risk thinking outside the box. Where you come from is less important than where you want to go.

Are you self-confident, team-oriented and not short of empathy and persua-siveness?

Then you already have some of the fundamental soft skills that we ex-pect from our present and future employees.

Vision, interactivity, a willingness to learn, readiness for action, con-viction and entrepreneurship. Hard facts that, together with soft skills, also form the basis for your career at Continental. Why not take the quick test and find out if you can answer the questions in the Conti checklist to your satisfaction?

We look forward to meeting you in person soon.

Who We’re Looking For | Soft Skills

Soft skills?Hard facts?Ideally, both!

Hard facts –the Conti checklist

qAre you a visionary?We are looking for people with inspiring visions of the future. People who like promoting processes of innovation and change will love Continental. Developing concepts and making them reality – you can expect both working with us, and we also expect both from you.

qDo you work interactively?Being able to convince others about ideas and motivate them to implement these is a major asset. Bring this asset to Continental with you and promote team spirit, cooperation, networking, intercultural expertise and diversity at the micro and macro communication levels.

qDo you like learning?If you like learning, Continental is the perfect training ground for your professional career: use self-reflection, feedback and coaching as an active learning opportunity. For yourself and for others.

qAre you ready for action?If you are not afraid of action and initiate it responsibly and passionately, you’re on the right track with us – Continental promotes initiative, leadership and management, self-determination and commitment.

qAre you good at getting things done?At Continental, it’s all about getting the right things done and successfully solving problems while taking calculated risks into account. If you have these skills in your repertoire, then we think that’s great.

qCan you think and act entrepreneurially?Then you think and act as you should – in your own interests and as far as Continental is concerned: customer-oriented, profit-oriented, quality-oriented, environmentally conscious and with integrity.

Hard Facts | Who We’re Looking For

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