The People meeting the Challenges

Our businesses

The environmental services segment encompasses an especially dynamic range of activities. The diverse areas of operation of Veolia Environnement demand an equally diverse range of skills. 8% of all employees are engineers and managerial-grade staff; 14.9% are technicians or foremen; 11.3% are clerical workers and 65.8% are operating personnel. The Group’s 298,000 employees work in entities based close to their markets that highlight the spirit of initiative and sense of personal responsibility. Nearly two-thirds of the Company’s workforce is based outside France.

Apprenticeship portraits

Like 20-year olds in the halls of Campus Veolia, these employees with a solid professional background are going back to school to further their career... Here are the “self-portraits,” the first in the series, enabling you to discover the men and women motivated enough to incorporate their dreams into the reality of everyday life. At some point in their careers, they decided to opt for professional training.

Christian Dapilly, Veolia training Director

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Guillaume Corjux, Vocational training qualification

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Joël Chauvin, apprenticeship supervisor

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Caroline Lavaine, Veolia Transport’s Finance department

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Training and Campus Veolia

For Veolia Environnement, employee skill development is a priority, to enable the Company to keep up with the changing regulatory and technical landscapes in its various sectors of operation. By establishing Campus Veolia, which provides initial and continuing training, and developing a network of training centers around the world, the company makes the competence of its workforce one of its hallmarks.

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Recruitment and opportunity

The demand for environmental services is steadily on the rise—and the labor requirements of the sector as well. As France’s second-largest employer, Veolia Environnement hired more than 27,000 new employees in 2006, representing a variety of backgrounds and qualifications. The Company takes advantage of Veolia Compétences, a compound integration and training program. Under this system, the Company commits to hiring (under unlimited-term contract) all candidates who earn a recognized degree, title or certification upon completion of their training. In 2006, 8,000 new employees took advantage of this system.

HR

Combining economic performance and the professional satisfaction of employees is a key value at Veolia Environnement. Accordingly, the Company’s human resources policy is based on five principles: better understanding of labor realities; support for employee skill development; development of employee-employer dialogue at every level of the organization; fair compensation packages with built-in health care and employee profit-sharing benefits.