Chapter 3 - Economic responsibilities
Chapter 3 - Economic responsibilities
Genève Aéroport is an active company, involved at the regional level to promote occupational integration, ensuring the employability of its staff and preparing the skills of tomorrow. It sponsors many initial training classes for its employees and builds partnerships with local parties in the field of integration and across the labour market.
Promoting occupational integration
Since 2012, Genève Aéroport has been awarded the « Label 1+ pour tous », which indicates that all open positions are advertised at the Cantonal Employment Office and, with equal qualifications, preference is given to a person seeking employment. In 2019, 31 job seekers were hired, which represents more than 18% of the total number of open positions, and almost 30% of external hiring.
Nationality and place of residence of employees of Geneva Airport
Training as a basis for the employment brand
Genève Aéroport is a training company. Of the 169 open positions in 2019, 58 benefitted from initial training, i.e. more than one third received funding from the company to learn the fundamentals necessary to carry out their duties. Some of these training courses may last up to eighteen months, as with, for example, those for the position of aspiring firefighter (nine initial training courses funded in 2019) or apron controller (two initial training courses offered in 2019), open to both women and men, the modules of which led to a Federal Patent and a license qualification respectively. Moreover, Genève Aéroport provides for the entire training of airport security and surveillance officers, with more than a dozen people recruited to these positions in 2019.
« 5,826 people taking part in continuing and initial training courses organised by Genève Aéroport, including 3,662 people employed by Genève Aéroport. »
Promoting employment among young people and preparing them for the labour market
For more than a decade, Genève Aéroport has been taking part in job simulation sessions at a business school in the Canton. The aim is to provide advice and help students to adopt the right attitudes in their future job interviews, as well as preparing them for the labour market.
In 2018, Genève Aéroport developed a partnership with a vocational guidance programme. Some 30 courses have been offered in the last two years to children from Canton Geneva, in collaboration with the Department of Public Instruction, Training and Youth (DIP).
The year 2019 represented an opportunity to test a new form of recruitment, through the mediation of Café Pro, a concept based on ‘unfiltered’ meetings between employers and applicants, promoting an approach which favours individuality, motivation and know-how.
Finally, in May 2019 Genève Aéroport took part in the first Airport Careers Trade Fair held in the lounges adjacent to Le Chef restaurant. In partnership with various companies from across the airport site and led by Skyguide, this first event attracted between 300 and 400 people, and is set to be repeated in 2020. Each company has been able to showcase and present its jobs to many young people and job seekers.
Ensuring professional development and internal mobility
Genève Aéroport places special emphasis on its employees’ development. More than 30% of the open positions in 2019 were filled internally, showing that the skills acquired allow access to new roles, either through internal promotions or through transfers to positions where the skills gained are applicable. Such mobility within teams is a reflection of Genève Aéroport’s own dynamism. This excellent rate shows the company's ambition to capitalise on the women and men who make the airport today, offering them opportunities to evolve in line with their ambitions, whilst, at the same time, making them aware of the need to acquire skills they will need for the different professions of tomorrow.