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.

Self-portrait of a learner

Whether 20-year olds continuing their education, mature experienced personnel returning to brush up their knowledge, or people keen to upskill and climb the corporate ladder...
The first in a series of self-portraits to reveal to us just who are these men and women determined to make their dreams come true by choosing at a particular time in their career to further their education.

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.