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Fuerst

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Heidrun Fuerst is Corporate Human Resources Representative for ZF Group North American Operations in a global and interface function between the International HR Business at the Company Headquarters in Germany and the North American Operations. Within this position Ms. Fuerst is developing and implementing college relation activities between the ZF Group’s target universities and the North American locations as well as establishing international exchange programs between Europe and the US.

Ms. Fuerst worked for 4 years in the Corporate Management Development Department in Friedrichshafen, Germany, responsible for worldwide recruiting for a International Management Trainee Program. In this assignment she developed the company’s “high potentials”. In her current assignment she is continuing her work in the education and organization development area.

Ms. Fuerst’s key objectives include:

  • Implementing college relations programs

  • Designing graduate development programs

  • Implementing succession planning

  • Implementing cooperative educations programs & intern programs with regional universities

With a Bachelors degree in Business Administration she has been employed by ZF Group since September, 1994, and working with ZF NAO since January, 2002.

 

Last Updated:  01/08/2003

     

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The International Engineering Program is a dual-degree program combining a B.A. in German, French and/or Spanish with a B.S. in one of the engineering disciplines.  IEP students study language and culture each semester along with their engineering curriculum. In the fourth year of the five-year program, they then go abroad as interns with engineering based firms in Europe or Latin America, and also as exchange students with one of our partner universities