Vivendi

In order to facilitate young people’s entry into the working world and to encourage mutual transmission of knowledge, the group works to strengthen bridges with young generations.

• In 2009, SFR made apprenticeship a structural main line of its human resources policy and set up a partnership with MosaïkRH, a recruiting firm specialized in promoting diversity with whom the company met during a Diversity skills network meeting organized by Vivendi’s corporate headquarters. SFR has clearly exposed its ambition regarding apprenticeship: for its apprentice recruitment level to be superior to that required by law (3% of headcount: 3.5% in 2009 and 4% in 2010, which represents 434 cooperative education (dual-education) positions for 2009). On June 29, 2009, the first Apprenticeship Forum was held with MosaïkRH and a new, openly accessible recruiting Web site was launched.

• The Canal+ Group organized a “young journalists competition” (Grand Match des jeunes talents journalistes) in Spring 2009 with the cooperation of the top journalism schools (13 institutions in metropolitan France). This innovative means of finding and recruiting young talent for the group’s sports channels also resulted in the establishment of lasting relations with the journalism schools. The winner was awarded a one-year contract with a Canal+sports editorial department. Launched on March 31, 2009, the competition took place between mid-April and early June. The event is to be repeated each year, and the competitive events and themes can evolve from session to session, with technological advances and also depending on Canal+ Group’s recruiting needs.

• Together with Instituto Salesiano, since 2005 GVT promotes the minor’s apprentice program, which integrates students – with emotional or financial needs – into the daily life of a company. GVT units all over the country have young people from 14 to 21 years old acquiring experience in activities of administrative and operational support, always guided by a company professional. The best apprentices can be hired by GVT.

• Universal Music Group also carries out many partnerships with major local and national universities and attracts the most talented young people thanks to its training programs around the world.

• Vivendi HQ’s offering of internships brought in 40 students in 2009 for an average period of 4.2 months and led to the recruitment of three of them on a temporary basis.
  Trainees are all paid commensurately with their level of studies, between 30 and 100% of the minimum wage (1,357.07 euros a month as of July 1, 2009). At the end of the internship, an additional sum of up to 20% of the amounts previously paid may be added based on the quality of the work done.
  Under the responsibility of an internship leader, trainees engage in missions that earn them credit towards job qualification, whose purpose is to put them in actual work situations and give them responsibilities in line with their level of skills.
  Since June 2006, interns have been asked to evaluate their experiences by completing a detailed questionnaire used by the Human Resources department to assess whether the internships met their needs and expectations. Late in 2007, an initial evaluation of these questionnaires was made by the Human Resources department. The evaluation has two parts. The first has to do with the environment of the internship (welcome by the person in charge, welcome by the team, resources made available, and access to information) and the second is an assessment of the internship itself (consistency with the trainee’s expectations, actual program content and work done, and the possibility of beginning to build a professional network).
  In terms of the first part, 96% of the trainees found the environment very satisfactory or satisfactory and regarding the second, 96% found it very satisfactory or satisfactory.