Employement and skills development

Renault made a small revolution at the end of 2011 in the HR organization of its engineering and service undertakings in the Paris area (16,900 employees). Employees and managers used to complain...

11 July 2013

Spanish businesses are getting into 2.0 recruitment methods

Recruitment 2.0 has not been rapidly embraced by firms in Spain, a relatively recent phenomenon, but they are starting to (Ref. 130413)

20 June 2013

Germany: more and more employees take sabbaticals

They’re obviously still a minority but they are more than they used to be. A recent survey by the Handelsblatt daily found that more and more German employees, notably executives, dare to take a...

5 June 2013

MSD speeds up development to move young talent into senior leadership positions

The Spanish subsidiary of MSD, a global healthcare leader known as Merck & Co., Inc. in the United States and Canada, enacted the “Internship Talent Program” in 2011 as part of its talent...

31 May 2013

Corporate practices: Mapfre’s talent management program uses international benchmarking to develop innovation

Since 1984, MAPFRE, the leading insurance company in Spain, has been steadily expanding its business at the worldwide scale. In response to this internationalization process, the company agreed to...

16 May 2013

Great Britain: more and more businesses provide their employees with vocational qualifications

The major high street retailer, the John Lewis Partnership, has announced plans to establish a ‘University of John Lewis’ as part of its expanding range of internal vocational qualifications for...

14 May 2013

Faurecia banks on career development for employees with key positions to ensure business success

The French automotive group Faurecia decided to implement the “supervisors and UAP managers program” in 2010, as part of its Excellence System. Unlike a program aimed at “high potentials”, the...

23 April 2013

BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale

The chemical company BASF and the Catalonian Department of Education (Spain) have just reached an agreement by which students from a Catalonian vocational training school can pursue a dual...

22 April 2013

Europe: serious games and mobile learning on the rise in vocational training

The latest survey of the Cegos Observatory on widespread vocational training practices in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy, published on March 27, shows that e-learning is on increasing...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena

The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: SEUR, the transport company, cares for employee retention from the very start of the employment relationship

In 2005, SEUR, the leading company for urgent transport and integral logistics in Spain, conceived a "Welcome and Integration Plan" targeted at their new staff, as part of its talent...

20 March 2013

Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices

Demographic ageing, production changes - harder to plan than they used to be - and quick technological change are forcing businesses to come up with new HR management and training policies. In...

19 November 2012

Great Britain: Morrisons launches university training for managers

While logistics are becoming increasingly complicated in retail trade, the Morrisons supermarket chain is offering its sales supervisors a degree in management and logistics. (Ref. 120636)

25 October 2012

Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...

13 September 2012

Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices

Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...

23 August 2012

Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world

The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...

23 August 2012

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Spain: a bill to regulate internships

On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...

13 March 2026

EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation

On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...

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Block to slash workforce by nearly half

The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...

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