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WHY IBM?
Why should you work at IBM? You thrive on being challenged, and interacting with diverse people with unique perspectives, who are at the top of their game. You seek new opportunities, and embrace change. You want to:
Work for the world.
It’s possible at IBM. Global integration is the way we drive real results for clients in the 170 countries we serve. That means ensuring that the right people are in the right place at the right time — in real time. At IBM, there are many ways to be the “right” person. Cultivate your expertise, use your knowledge to the fullest extent, or re-invent yourself, without ever having to leave the company.
More to explore: The globally integrated enterprise: IBMers describe what they do on a global scale and what it's meant for their lives and careers.
Work, your way.
Global innovation demands diverse employees and attractive work/life initiatives that sustain, and retain, them. It means getting work done in the best possible way, with a focus on business results, and not where and when people do their work. IBM gives you the power to design your workday, and your life, according to your unique style and needs.
More to explore: Diversity matters at IBM.
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Be a true IBMer.
IBM’s company values provide the foundation for everything we do. It’s our creed, that every IBMer helped create, and it translates into serious business, namely, dedication to clients’ success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all relationships.
More to explore: IBM values at work.
Make a difference.
IBM leads the business world in corporate and environmental responsibility. At IBM, you can give back to the world using cutting-edge technology to help us address some of society's most complex problems.
More to explore: IBM’s commitment to Corporate Citizenship.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
You’ll be joining a company that brings together more people from diverse backgrounds to solve real problems for companies all over the world. Whether you’re an undergraduate or post-graduate, we'll help you turn your years of study into tangible achievements through a vast array of global career opportunities and development programs.
IBM consistently ranks in the “Top 10” among students:
- BusinessWeek: Ranked fourth “Best Place to Launch a Career.” (US)
- BusinessWeek: Ranked ninth “Best Internship Program.” (US)
- Universum: Ranked fourth “Best Engineer Program.” (India)
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International students
Your studies abroad have already primed you for a job with a global company, but how can you find out if there is a global opportunity for you at IBM?
We've developed an International Student Hiring Program designed to help you find the right opportunity for you.
Still have a couple of years before you graduate?
Now is the time to check into IBM’s professional work experience programs including co-ops and internships. We partner with colleges and universities to offer high potential students these sought-after opportunities to gain real-world career experience.
What are the benefits of working at IBM in a student program? Learning is just the beginning.
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A SMARTER PLANET
The list of problems our planet faces is well-known: A financial crisis. Climate disruption. Energy geopolitics. Food supply hazards.
What they show is that we're all connected, today like never before: economically, socially and technically. When a crisis occurs on one part of the planet, it can bring problems to another part, within days or even hours.
Yet this challenge is also an opportunity, and now is the time to seize it. People around the world are ready for change. And IBM is ready for it too. In fact, we're starting a conversation with the world because we think now is the time to make changes for the better.
IBM's vision is to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works - how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts. Each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively. But more than that, as the systems of the planet become smarter, we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress.
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IBM NEWS
Read how IBM is literally changing the way the world works — and get the latest IBM-related news stories, events, social networking updates and more.
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OUR VALUES AT WORK
IBMers value:
- Dedication to every client's success
- Innovation that matters, for our company and for the world
- Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships
In 2003, IBM undertook the first disciplined reexamination of our values in nearly 100 years. Through “ValuesJam” – an unprecedented 72-hour discussion on IBM’s global intranet – IBMers came together to define the essence of the company. The result? A set of core values – defined by IBMers for IBMers – that shape everything we do and every choice we make on behalf of the company.
The shared set of values helps us make decisions and, in the process, makes our company great. But their real influence occurs when we apply these values to our personal work and our interactions with one another and the wider world.
Do IBM’s values ring true for you?
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More to explore: Our Values at Work.
BEST & BRIGHTEST
The IBM culture is one that prizes intelligence and innovation. IBMers are inquisitive people motivated by high achievement. And it shows.
In addition to five Nobel prizes, IBM researchers have been recognized with seven U.S. National Medals of Technology, five National Medals of Science and 21 memberships in the National Academy of Sciences.
IBM Research has more than 59 members of the National Academy of Engineering and well over 300 industry organization fellows. The company has seen eight inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
And, for each of the past 15 years (1993—2007), IBM has been granted more U.S. patents than any other company. IBM has invested approximately $5 billion per year in research, development and engineering since 1996, and has a current active portfolio of over 40,000 patents worldwide.
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SOCIAL NETWORKING
Real people, real-time.
Even in a company with over 386,000 employees in more than 170 countries, collaborative technology and tools have enabled IBMers to connect to each other, and feel a sense of belonging within the IBM global team.
Collaboration tools enable IBMers to reach out to colleagues, build a sense of community, and respond to challenges that cross the boundaries of the company, to capitalize on the vast network of IBM experts at all levels around the world.
IBMers today are using the latest Web 2.0 technology to take information sharing and team building to a whole new level, in turn driving performance, innovation and business growth. On a typical day, IBMers exchange e-mail and instant messages, search the company's global employee phone directory, attend virtual meetings, and socialize via online clubs and Facebook-like internal websites.
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- Business Solutions: Playing well with others (The Wall Street Journal) .
- IBM’s Webbie World (Forbes.com).
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BIG BLUE GOES GREEN
Today we face many environmental challenges: the need for clean water and air; affordable and reliable delivery of energy; the dwindling supply of fossil fuels; the reality of climate disruption and its implications for future generations.
Society’s energy- and climate-related issues are at the top of our strategic agenda. At IBM, we recognize that information technology plays an extremely important role in solving these global issues. We’re striving to make our existing products and processes more efficient and develop new innovations to ultimately lessen the impact on the environment.
What can you do for the environment?
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THE NEXT FIVE IN FIVE
While many companies are talking about innovation, IBM is getting it done. IBM’s second annual “Next 5 in 5” report forecasts the five innovations that will change the way we live, work and play in the next five years. Predictions ranging from super-smart cell phones, to total traceability of everyday foods, are culled from IBM research lab projects, IBM business think tank insights – and IBMers around the world.
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More to explore: IBM’s “Next 5 in 5” Report.
THE WAY WE THINK
What does it take to change the way the world works?
For nearly a century, businesses, institutions and individuals have sought a relationship with IBM because of the company's unique ability to conceptualize opportunities, to analyze developments and to re-imagine how the world could work. At the most basic level, IBM’s defining value over the years has not been our assets, our size or offerings. It has been the way we think.
“All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.” – Thomas J. Watson
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CYBERCOMMUTING
Since IBM first started experimenting with virtual worlds almost a year ago, progress has been rapid. We’ve already built virtual retail storefronts for Sears and Circuit City as well as new hire training environments for other forward-thinking clients. Our chairman, Sam Palmisano, even has his own avatar. IBM was the first company to host private regions of the Second Life Grid on its own servers, and is partnering with Linden Lab, Second Life creator, to develop open standards-based technologies that will enhance emerging virtual worlds.
We’re developing virtual commerce solutions through the use of a richer, more immersive Web environment, and solving business problems in ways never thought possible.
We’re even looking at the next generation of virtual, open community collaboration on the Web. We call it “3-D Internet,” and we believe it’s the next phase of the Internet's evolution.
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