Career development and training: continuing priorities in the Group

Career development for employees, a constant priority in the Bouygues group, requires very substantial investment in training. That is why every business unit is committed to devoting a considerable amount of time and money to it. In France, the Group goes well beyond the statutory requirements. With other employers, in 2009 it gave a commitment to maintain its efforts to promote apprenticeships despite a more difficult economic environment.

Bouygues Construction University, Bouygues Construction's internal training structure, is tasked with promoting the group's principles and values, enhancing employees' skills, fostering the creation of professional networks and encouraging thought and action on groupwide strategic priorities.
Pertuy has rolled out a training programme for women in management. Organised in four one-and-a-half day sessions, it also includes themed working breakfasts and discussion evenings.

Several Bouygues Construction entities have introduced literacy and numeracy training for site workers.

The Gustave Eiffel Centre, an apprentice work/study training centre supported by Bouygues Construction, prepares young people for qualifications ranging from the CAP vocational training certificate to BTS and degree-level technical diplomas. The pass rate for the 155 students who took exams in 2010 was 82%. Altogether, 30% of apprentices from the Gustave Eiffel Centre work in the Bouygues group.

Colas continued to invest in training in 2010, devoting 4% of its total payroll in France and over 2.5% of its international payroll to training.
Colas Campus, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2010, offers 150 tailored training programmes representing over 200,000 hours of training to over 4,500 employees a year. Colas Campus helps to spread a shared corporate culture and know-how in the technical, managerial and commercial spheres.Over 50% of the training provided by Colas in 2010 was dispensed to site workers and 21 Colas University sessions were organised.

Having provided the inspiration for Colas North American University, Colas Campus
also exported in 2010 its training courses, led by trainers on secondment from France, to expatriate and local managers in Madagascar.
 

(Updated: June 2011)