OREANDA-NEWS. June 21, 2010. CenterTelecom OJSC won "Biggest Russian Employer for Young People for 2009" nomination of the First Ranking of Business Partners of Russia's Higher Educational Institutions organized by the Russian Rectors Union (RRU). The company was also included in a list of ten biggest companies with state participation employing young professionals.

From December 2009 to March 2010 the RRU was conducting a monitoring of the educational industry within the framework of RRU's Business and Education Project. 96 Russian companies along with 207 higher educational institutions submitted data related to their interactions related to research, support of talented students and professional adaptation of the graduates. The monitoring results were used as a base for the Ranking preparation. Thus 38 Russian and foreign companies which contributed to development of interactions between business and educational organizations in Russia won various nominations of the Ranking.

In the past year CenterTelecom being the biggest Russian corporation employing young professionals hired over 150 newcomers at the age of up to 25 years. Moreover in 2009 the company sent 418 orders for potential employees' training and implemented over 30 training programs jointly with higher educational institutions in order to train qualified young professionals for telecommunications industry.