Careers

WhatsApp Recruiting Chat

The BASF Recruiting Team is now available on WhatsApp!
We answer your questions regarding the application process and careers in Germany from Monday to Friday (except on national public holidays) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Please bear with us if answering your question takes a few minutes.

FAQs

How to chat with BASF on WhatsApp

Please make sure you are using the latest version of WhatsApp on your smartphone. If you have not installed it yet, you can download WhatsApp from the relevant apps store.
Save our phone number to your mobile phone.
Open WhatsApp and start a new chat. You are now ready to ask away.

Please consider the following before contacting us

What happens if you send a message to BASF on WhatsApp?

You are simply giving your permission so that we can contact you to process your request.

Please note that we cannot receive any calls on this telephone number. Please do not send any videos, pictures (e.g. of your application documents) or your location data to us via WhatsApp.

If you are contacting us on WhatsApp, you are accepting the provider's terms of use. WhatsApp is encrypting your conversation, however we cannot guarantee to what extent WhatsApp is going to collect, process or use your data for its own or third party purposes. BASF is using your telephone number solely to identify you in the chat system so that previous conversations can be mapped to you. On behalf of BASF, optimize-it GmbH is storing the conversations for quality assurance purposes for a duration of 12 months. Optimize-it accesses the WhatsApp services via an interface.

How to handle confidential or sensitive data?

Data protection is very important to us. If you want to give us confidential data or talk about sensitive topics, for security reasons please use a different, secure way to communicate with us. You can always contact us per telephone (free call number within Europe), per contact form on our career website or by using our online chat on the website. You can start the standard online chat by clicking on the question mark in the grey menu bar.

You will find further information on data protection at BASF here. You will find the terms of use for the BASF live chat here.