Benefits you'll receive
When you join the Engineering Graduate Programme you'll get the best start to your career possible. You'll also get heaps of great benefits that everyone working at Telecom enjoys.
Technical mentors
"I'm working with world-class performers in a fast-paced environment."
You'll be assigned a technical mentor who'll work with you and your manager to deliver a range of experiences in the technical telecommunications field.
You'll also work on projects and complete training and development sessions with other engineering graduates so it's easy to form your own network.
Rewards and recognition
Telecom prides itself on offering competitive pay rates and rewarding individual and company performance.
We offer annual incentive schemes linked to the achievement of Chorus and individual success measures. Annual remuneration reviews ensure we stay competitive in the wider market and that employees are rewarded for performing well.
We understand the importance of regular non-financial recognition and promote the use of our "Being Your Best" programme to reward individual achievement.
Phone and broadband concessions
The best way for you to understand the great services Telecom offers is for you to use them yourself. Permanent Telecom employees enjoy various concessions on their phone and broadband services:
- Your home phone line
- Unlimited national calling
- A broadband plan at home
- Your mobile phone and plan
You'll also get concessions on things like upgrading to a bigger broadband plan, calling family overseas and any add-on services you might use like Voicemail or Call Waiting. And you'll get discounts on Telecom products at our retail stores.
Lifestyle and leisure
We reckon everyone should have a good work-life balance. We'll help you achieve yours with a range of lifestyle and leisure benefits:
- A flexible working policy so you can be at home if you need to be
- Heaps of social events so you can relax with workmates, not just work with them
- Discounted health insurance schemes. Choose the plan most suitable for you, from day-to-day healthcare cover to full surgical care
- Six weeks' paid primary caregiver leave and one week's partner's paid parental leave over and above the parental leave you're legally entitled to
- Access to subsidised, low-cost, quality holiday accommodation all over New Zealand
- We sponsor our employees to participate in public sporting events, like Auckland's Round the Bays run and the City to Surf in Christchurch. We also subsidise registration to a number of sports teams
- If you're facing any personal issues we'll do our best to help you get through them. We can offer confidential counselling sessions with an impartial, professional third party
Future and finances
It's important to us that our employees are financially stable and working toward the lifestyle they want when they retire:
- We'll contribute to your retirement savings with KiwiSaver
- Through our Employee Share Scheme we make it easy to buy Telecom shares with a small fortnightly contribution and we'll pay the brokerage fees
Discounts and deals
"It's an opportunity to extend yourself in a wide range of areas."
As well as our own formal employee benefits, a number of other New Zealand companies offer concessions to Telecom employees:
- Westpac Bank offers a range of financial services discounts
- A number of insurance companies offer competitive rates on cover options
- Various travel and hospitality companies offer Telecom people corporate travel rates for their private travel
