Launched in the autumn of 2020 and right in the middle of two Covid-related lockdown periods, the French construction and materials group's internal apprentice training centre has already trained 60 young people in sales and industrial maintenance professions. Encouraged by the results of the centre’s first year’s graduates, Saint-Gobain will create new courses and intends to take on even more apprentices for the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, in the autumn of 2022. This is a way for Saint-Gobain to fill vacancies in areas undergoing labour shortages, while also training staff according to the company’s own particular needs.
To recruit staff, as well as ‘to retain young people in maintenance professions by renewing the age pyramid in the industry that is facing several thousand retirements.’ This is the objective that in 2020 was entrusted to Valérie Dab, the group’s delegate for employment and economic change, who was appointed Head of the Saint-Gobain CFA (Centre de formation d’apprentis- apprentice training centre). “We conducted a study to find out which professions would be suitable for apprenticeships and what our internal added value was,” Ms.
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