Ongoing recruitment drives
Objectives :
- Permanently attract new talent and new skills to take up the relay from leaving staff,
- Promote and cement diversity in recruitment.
Highlights in 2009 :
- 11 602 full-time employees on an open-ended contract (54,03% of which are women) and 7 413 full-time employees on fixed-term contracts,
- Increase in experienced non-executive, non-banking staff, who accounted for more than 28% of new bank cashiers recruited in Retail Banking in France in 2009,
- 365 VIE interns around the world, ranking the Group as the company with the highest number of interns for the third year running,
- Signing of the Employment Charter at Fontenay sous Bois in November 2009 (along the lign of the one signed in Nanterre in 2007). This voluntary step illustrates the willingness of Société Générale to contribute, on one side, to improve living conditions improvments by developping employments actions, and on the other hand, the economic attractiveness of the regions,
- Enlargement of the recruitment tool "SG Careers" in China, in Czech Republic and in the Asia-Pacific region,
- Launch of the fourth edition of Citizen Act, the “Business Game” linked to the Group’s Corporate and Social Responsibility.
Varied recruitment campaigns, particularly in France
Société Générale has several programmes in place to ensure the diversity of the profiles and talents of its new recruits and to ensure the replacement and renewal of skills :- "SOGElive in agency" : a one-day session organised to discover the job of banking adviser in a branch for non executives and non bankers for candidates with work experience . This day, which took place in Paris in 2 branches (Saint Lazare and Boulevard Saint-Germain), counted 200 applicants. The objective : enlarge recruitment target to applicants with no experience in the banking industry,
- Recruitment day "1 Jour 1 CDI" ("1 Day 1 open-ended contract") for the placement of young people with at least 18 months of commercial experience and graduate students with a minimum of 2 to 3 years study after Highschool. The jobs offered were Banking Adviser for the retail banking sector in France. The recruitment took place in three steps : receiving application, presentation of the bank industry, discussion with professionals from Société Générale and, after this day, each successful applicant received an open-ended contract,
- Heightened participation in various events and meetings to broaden the scope for recruitment (Rencontres Emplois et Divers’cités, "Paris pour l'emploi", Forum ANPE "Seniors"). In March 2009, Société Générale also took part of the forum "Work in France", in order to meet international students studying in France.
In France, Société Générale’s approach is to “pre-recruit” students in its target areas of expertise (i.e. with certificates and diplomas in banking and finance, etc.) via work placements (apprenticeships and work experience programs). In fact, the Group took on France took on over 1 493 young people on work-study contracts in 2009, mostly in its Retail Banking business.
Société Générale successfully continue its collaboration with education establishments (Business Schools, Ingeeners & IT schools and universities). in France and abroad.More than 500 actions have been done this year: schools forums, jobs presentation, educational intervention, round-tables, resume workshops and mock interviews, acceptance panel...)Its recruitment drives aside, Société Générale also promotes the issue of social responsibility via a student competition, Citizen Act, that primarily focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility. Helping new employees find their feet Launched end of 2007, Société Générale’s induction programme offers, to each new employee in each region where the Group is set up, an integration programme. The programme is designed to ensure each new employee's successful integration within their first few months of working for the company and includes:
- A welcome programme for an employee's first few days which gives them the chance to discover more about the Group, its strategy, its businesses and its values as well as their new entity and team,
- A dedicated intranet site providing key information and pointers for recruits to help them familiarize themselves with the company,
- An e-learning module, in English and French, on the economy and Group in general which also gives them the chance to brush up on their knowledge and understanding of the banking sector,
- Mentorship by an experienced member of staff during their first few months of working for the company,
- An integration seminar within the employee's entity, country or business line. A "Group Integration Day" was held in Paris in June 2009 which was attended by 1 800 new recruits, 27% of whom were from outside France.