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Fact Book 2014
Prysmian Group
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‘Build the Future, the Graduate Program’
is Prysmian’s international recruitment
programme to place young high-potential
graduates in different business functions and
geographical locations.
Launched in 2012, the programme has resulted
in the recruitment of around 130 young
people from around the world. Over 16,000
applications were received for the 2014/2015
cohort, out of which 50 recent graduates
Prysmian Group is the high-tech champion
in its industry.
State of the art technology
and innovation are therefore key strategic
resources in the constant search for value and
business achievements that it pursues.
But often, as in many high-tech companies,
the technological know-how is concentrated
in a group of people who ‘own’ the so-
called ‘critical know-how’. Prysmian wants
expertise to be treated as a strategic asset,
to be exchanged and circulated among its
were selected from every continent. That
was the outcome of an intensive campaign
of employer branding in partnership with
professional social networks like LinkedIn
and Monster, as well as local ones, such
as GraduateLand and ChinaJob, the use of
online portals, attendance at careers fairs at
the world’s top engineering and economics
universities, and Facebook; all geared to
maximising media exposure and receiving the
largest number of applications possible.
entire people, so that the best practices
created during life-long working experiences
can be transferred from the more senior
people to the more junior ones. That is a key
issue and the most experienced workers are a
key component in the whole transfer process:
by keeping them fully on board, Prysmian
enables its entire structure to fully express
its competitive potential and secures the
handover of its management culture from
one generation to another.
Building the teams of the future
Experience matters at Prysmian Group
OUR PEOPLE ARE
OUR BIGGEST ASSET
People