Personnel development

Our personnel development concept aims to identify and retain suitable candidates for our Office with a view to securing the continued viability of our work. Personnel development is an important investment in terms of covering requirements. It is specifically targeted at motivating staff to work in a spirit of personal responsibility, ensuring job satisfaction while also achieving maximum efficiency in the BfS's work.

Instruments

Since the year 2000, various personnel development instruments have been established at the BfS, such as:

• targeted and systematic induction through induction programmes, buddy systems and mentoring
• encouragement of teamwork
• cooperation and training meetings between staff and their direct managers
• individual coaching sessions and team-building
• in-service continuing education and training
• executive development including executive feedback
• knowledge transfer and retention of expertise.

An "umbrella" personnel development concept that takes account of our BfS Guiding Principle serves to pool and interlink the individual instruments, to inform employees, and to further the BfS's development in this area.

Onboarding, qualification and maintenance of competence

In addition to the conventional advanced training courses, we would like to highlight particularly our programmes for onboarding, qualification and specialisation of employees which have been designed especially for the BfS.

These are necessary to maintain the existing specialist knowledge and to systematically train and integrate the growing number of new employees.

Maintaining competence is one of the major challenges. With respect to the scientifically complex tasks of radiation protection, it is essential to maintain and pass on the existing specialist knowledge.

BfS therefore organises overlapping periods during which knowledge carriers who are about to leave can work together with their successors as an element of targeted succession planning.