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 sectors. The fact that we have
subsidiaries 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 our employees' career
opportunities
throughout the
Group.
What are the Group's
HR policy priorities?
The particular strength of our
Group is to have been able to rely on
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 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, people who are 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
career opportunities 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
employee is
taken under the wing of the team he or
she joins
in order to learn the culture and values
of Arc
International. This 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 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 employees. 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
practices from
one unit to another. This allows for
personal
and professional development with the
extra
benefit of cultural diversity.
With this in
mind,
we have set up, in particular for our
managers, individual career monitoring
based on
efficient annual interviews. They pay
special attention to achieving the
objectives of the past year as well as
the
employee'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
staff.
What is Arc
International doing to promote relations
between
schools and
companies?
We participate in forums which
encourage discussions between companies,
school directors and student
populations.
These one-off operations are organised
at a
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,
such as 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 strengthen good relations with
customers
while letting a breath of fresh air into
the
company. Each of our departments sets up
innovative projects that involve
employees from
around the world.
We are convinced that our
success
relies on our
company goal converging with employee
career
paths.
So if you too wish to try your
hand
at changing the world of Tableware,
join us so that we can build the future
of the
Group together.