Frequently Asked Questions

Please apply using our job search.

Resume, letter, and education/training certificates from the time you completed school are required. You may provide other qualification documents that are relevant to the job. You may also put several certificates in one document. You may also provide us with more information that proves your qualification. The documents must not exceed 20 MB. Each file must not exceed 5 MB.

In each job description, a contact person is named at the end of the description under “Your Application.” You are welcome to send your application to this person.

Please submit your job application in digital format in our online jobs portal.

Yes. But please make sure that you upload a separate application for each job.

When you have uploaded your application via our online job application tool, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. Please also check your spam folder.

To guarantee a careful and fair assessment, the processing and response times vary. But in your best interest, everyone involved tries to process the application as quickly as possible. You will receive a reply in any case.

You can see the status of your application in your profile. We will also send you all the information about your application by e-mail: confirmation after successful registration and when we have received the application documents for a job vacancy, invitations to job interviews but also interim notices and rejection letters.

For some job positions, you have the possibility to create a video application instead of writing a standard application letter. This means that you introduce yourself in a 30-second-video. You will find an indication about this possibility in the respective job descriptions. 

If a job can no longer be found in the Job Market, the vacancy has been filled, or there are already a large number of applications and no more applications are being accepted. In cases such as this, we remove the job from the Job Market.

When you create your user account, you can determine the recruiters who are allowed to see your application. You can choose whether only the recruiters for the job you are applying for may see your documents or whether all recruiters in Germany or in the world can access them. Recruiters can then suggest another suitable job for you. If this is the case, you will of course be notified. Data protection is ensured at all times. During the application phase, only the persons involved in the process have access to your application documents (see data protection information).

Data protection is very important at Evonik. 

If you make an unsolicited application, it will not automatically be considered in the vacancy-filling process. If you are interested in joining us and cannot find a suitable job in our Job Market, we recommend that you register your application profile in our database. You can also set up an individual job alarm to notify you of suitable job ads.

Generally, it is advisable to send your application about 3 months in advance. But it is also possible that for certain jobs a shorter or longer processing time is proposed; this information can be found in the job advertisement.

In the recruiting software, we distinguish between your personal candidate profile and a job application. Your profile contains your personal information that you need in case you apply for a job vacancy later. You can continuously update this. When you apply for an advertised job, use the profile, a job-specific cover letter, your resume, and education and training certificates. If you have actively applied for a job, you can no longer change the profile you submitted with the application or the documents you uploaded. If you wish to make changes, get in touch with the contact person for the advertised job.

On the login page, click “I forgot my password.” Enter the e-mail that you registered with. When you have completed this screen, you will immediately receive an e-mail with an activation link.

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From other countries: +49 201 177 4200

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Basically, in all segments, as well as in the service units, the Corporate Center, and at all sites throughout the world. We deploy interns in various projects and make use of their skills to develop and implement new topics. Based on the work of the company, we especially look for chemistry, engineering, and economics students. Are there special intern programs or limitations as regards the number of internships? There is no fixed number of internships. So that you can carry out practical activities during your internship and can be involved in ongoing projects, the number of internships is based on the requirements of the specialist departments. In our business and service units and in the Corporate Center, you work on tasks and projects that are structured individually and that can be completed during your internship where possible.

You will find all the advertised internships on our Job Market.

Unfortunately, we do not accept unsolicited applications. If you are interested in joining us and cannot find a suitable job in our Job Market, we recommend that you register your application profile in our database. You can also set up an individual job alarm to notify you of suitable job ads.

You must fulfill professional and formal requirements for the respective position and have good or very good grades. Some internships need a minimum number of credit points and require a bachelor’s degree. You will find these requirements in the respective job ad. We also attach great importance to the personal suitability of applicants - in other words, communication skills, capacity for teamwork, reliability, determination, and a sense of responsibility, enthusiasm, and commitment, which, if possible, you have also demonstrated outside university. Confidence in working with IT and sound language skills are also helpful.

Internships are possible only while you are still studying.

Yes, Evonik offers internships worldwide. You must have completed a successful internship in your home country (not necessarily with Evonik) and have above-average grades in your studies. Please plan this about six months in advance.

There is no “best” time for an internship at Evonik. You are welcome to join us at any time. However, you should apply in good time, between 3 and 6 months before you would like to start the internship.

At least 3 months, longer if you wish. Depending on your studies, these in-depth main internships can last 6 months or more. You can obtain more information about the length of internships in the respective advertisement or via the recruiting help line (0800 2386645 from Germany).

We will be happy to help you find an apartment. At some sites, special apartments are available for interns.

Yes, all internships are paid. Evonik is a member of the Fair Company Initiative, in which we have agreed to pay all interns. However, the pay differs depending on the type of internship and academic degree.

Generally, a successfully completed internship is required for you to be offered a job as a temporary-hire student at Evonik. By arrangement with the unit management, it is thus possible for you to remain employed in the company even after you have completed your internship.

By arrangement, it is possible to get a job as a temporary-hire student after your internship. If this is not possible, your supervisor can propose you for the Evonik Perspectives loyalty program.

Good or very good grades, good skills appropriate to your education status, confidence working with modern IT, determination, reliability, enthusiasm, resilience, sound language skills, non-university commitment, capacity to work in a team, and social skills.

We do not offer specific doctoral student programs. In our business areas and in the Corporate Center, you work on worldwide topics that are individually structured and agreed. All variants are possible. Existing cooperation agreements between Evonik and university lecturers can be a good basis for a doctor’s degree.

Yes, depending on Evonik-specific issues and the specifications of the respective examination regulations. The topics are defined in collaboration with the university (chair, professor), the student, and Evonik’s specialist departments. If you are looking for the right contact or have questions about degree, bachelor, master, or doctoral theses, please contact our applicant service (0800 2386645). It is useful if you consider several groups of themes that you would like to write about and include a short exposé.

In all areas where certain topics can be investigated specifically or fundamentally within a limited (degree, bachelor, master theses) or longer time (doctoral thesis). It is also possible for students to write their bachelor's thesis in the same department after completing an internship.

Degree and doctoral candidates are given access to the resources they need for their theses. They are involved in all the required activities, such as cooperation with internal and external entities, presentations, business trips, etc.

You can contact our applicant help line: 0800 2386645 or from outside Germany +49 201 177-4200 (Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.). Please send any technical questions to karriere-tech@evonik.com and describe the technical problem. Remember that applications sent to this address will not be considered in the application process. I cannot open the PDFs that are available for download on some pages. What can I do? To read a PDF, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download for free here.