Customer focus, operating in project mode, operational excellence, leadership: these are bywords for Eutelsat in-service training policy. Employees are encouraged to hone their expertise and help build the success of Group strategy. As part of this programme, in-house seminars encourage sharing best practice, mobilising teams around corporate values, methods and targets. In addition to training programmes, seminars and conferences, the e-learning portal, Eutelsat C@mpus, offers a broad range of subjects for staff to follow when they choose in order to enhance business skills, learn languages, improve management techniques or for personal development. During this financial year, over 42% of staff took part in some educational activity.

Convinced of the importance of close links between educational establishments and companies, Eutelsat pursues an active policy of initiatives and partnerships that also assist recruitment of new talent. These links take the form of panel sessions, participating in juries, tutored study projects, portals presenting Eutelsat on the websites of partner establishments or industrial visits to teleports and offices. Another element is integration of new staff through ongoing in-depth dialogue to expose corporate values and skills to new recruits, and to benefit in return from their fresh viewpoint.

In order to retain experts, the Group’s objective is to create a rewarding environment and workspace and offer a wide range of advantages, including a long-term savings scheme enhanced by an Employer Matching Contribution.

Above and beyond financial results and the success of its business model, Eutelsat develops its business on a solid foundation of corporate values shared by all staff. Its aim is for sustainable and responsible growth that anchors the Group in civil society and respects all stakeholders. The Joint Working Party on civic engagement and individual and collective action for the environment and sustainable development works in this spirit.

Another ethical principle is total non-discrimination. As a signatory of the Workplace Diversity Charter, from the outset as an intergovernmental organisation Eutelsat has been committed to diversity, skill enhancement and equal opportunities in the workplace. These values form part of its core identity, requiring the implementation of best practice rules in recruitment and corporate life in general.

The Group also works at ensuring that all operational sites and offices are well integrated into their local context, demonstrated by the creation of new highly qualified jobs in Sardinia and Madeira where ground facilities have been established.