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José-Maria Aulotte,
the Group's Senior Vice-President for Corporate Human Resources granted us an interview about Arc International's HR vision. |
What is the Group's Human Resources Policy?
The development of the Group depends on our ability to maintain a balance between our industrial professionalism, our Group heritage and our determination to pay more attention to our customers and markets. This modernisation process goes hand in hand with a proactive human resources policy dedicated to group and individual development. When we recruit we want to attract the most highly skilled people by creating a stimulating context for all who work in the company.
The size of the Group enables us to offer a wide range of jobs covering many different professions. The fact that we have organisations around the world means that we get candidates coming from different backgrounds. This in turn facilitates the exchange of skills and know-how between the units. It also increases the career opportunities of our employees through the group.
What are the priorities of the Group's HR policy?
The particular strength of our group is to have been able to find its own resources to pull through the major upheavals in distribution and consumption over the last few years. It has proven its survival instinct and ability to bounce back with more energy thanks to its basically solid foundations which naturally include its human resources.
Our priority is above all to continue providing the Group with suitable candidates to enable it to maintain its growth. We look for people who are capable of understanding the challenges facing our organisation, which is nevertheless on a human scale, which are also prepared to relocate and are aware of our company culture. We want each employee to feel involved in the Group’s evolution.
With the opening of our direct points of sale, new professions have emerged within the Group. One of our priorities is thus to recruit people to fill these new positions.
Is there an integration process for newly hired staff?
Each new collaborator is taken under the wing of the team he or she joins in order to learn the culture and values of Arc International. This orientation process helps the person to understand the way the business unit operates day by day and more generally how it fits into the Group.
Managers also follow a more formal integration session in the form of a seminar.
Most of our units have different orientation processes for integrating their new employees.
What is the Group’s policy in terms of career mobility?
We attach a lot of importance to the professional and personal development of our collaborators. Our objective is to anticipate and help them achieve their changes while offering mobility opportunities within an international context if necessary. It is essential, if we are to ensure the overall performance of the Group, that we handle our human resources better.
Career mobility enables the transfer of skills and good practice from one unit to another. This allows for personal and professional enrichment with the extra benefit of cultural diversity.
In order to achieve this policy, we have set up, in particular for our managers, individual career monitoring based on efficient annual interviews. On this occasion special attention must be paid to achieving the objectives of the past year as well as the collaborator’s development objectives. In France there is also a system for personnel planning which enables us to define key skills for the development of the company and its collaborators.
What is Arc International doing to promote relations between schools and companies?
We participate in forums which encourage discussions between companies, directors of schools and student populations. These one-off operations are organised on the European level for the moment. They enable us to make students aware of the Group and its activities, in order to attract new talent.
We are also introducing other measures for investing in education. This has already been done for several years in St Omer.
To conclude
Our group is evolving in a sector in which our customers must be our central preoccupation. The aim of our recruitment policy is to reinforce good relations with customers while letting a breath of fresh air into the company. Each of our professions corresponds to innovative projects which involve collaborators all over the world.
We are convinced that our success depends on the converging interests of our company project and the career goals of our collaborators.
So if you too wish to participate in the evolution of Tableware join us so that we can build the future of the Group together. |