Our commitments

GBH has been a partner of the JOMD since its first edition, in 2009. The purpose of this event is to bring together the economic and social world of Overseas France, its diaspora, and more broadly all those who are interested in Overseas France, to share ideas, highlight initiatives and careers, promote overseas development, and motivate young people around their place of origin. GBH participates with a stand dedicated to employment and career opportunities within the Group. Thanks to the JOMD, the Group has been able to recruit  several young managers each year. It is the only event of this magnitude organised in France and dedicated to the recruitment and economic development of French overseas territories. Members of Parliament, institutions, decision-makers, entrepreneurs and talents from the diaspora come together to apply, recruit but also to debate and better understand the dynamics and challenges of French overseas territories.

The sixth edition of the Journée Outre-Mer Développement (JOMD) (Overseas Development Day) will take place on Saturday 18 November 2017 at Palais Brongniart (from 8 am to 7 pm – Place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris). www.jomd.fr

GBH and the Universités des Antilles et de la Guyane have been carrying out concrete actions since 2010 to bring the worlds of business and university closer together. This partnership was strengthened in 2011 with the creation of the UAG-GBH Partnership Foundation "Working together for training and employment", which has since become the UA-GBH Foundation.

Each year, the three partners organise three Jobs forums at the end of the year in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana. The forums provide an opportunity for the 500 to 1,000 young people who attend to meet university professors and business executives and to learn from roughly one hundred professionals, executives of GBH and other companies, about the fields of business, marketing, communication, law, banking, audit, management control, hygiene-quality-safety-environment, tourism, culture or engineering. Students can also take part in workshops and apply for internships. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation was extended for a period of five years. In addition to continuing to organise the Jobs Forums and the Dumar⁽¹⁾ and Miage⁽²⁾ professional vocational training programmes, the aim of these connections is to set up high-level professional training programmes at Université des Antilles, to provide visibility to the internships offered by GBH, to facilitate access to internships for applied foreign language students in the Caribbean, and ultimately, to promote the employability of young people in these territories. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation will also launch two thesis prizes, one dedicated to art and literature, and the other to the environment.

The next Jobs Forums will take place in Guadeloupe on 4 October and in Martinique on 22 November 2017.

The Université de la Guyane and GBH will organise the next Jobs Forum, on Wednesday 6 December 2017, as part of a partnership.

(1) In 2011, the UAG and GBH created a Department Manager university diploma (Dumar). Adapted to the real needs of the mass retail sector in the French West Indies-Guiana, this bachelor degree level work-study programme relies on experienced professionals who provide students with the skills and techniques required of department managers and the educational content of higher university education. Fifteen of the 20 students of the first year obtained their diploma. Twenty-six students graduated from the second year.

(2) In 2015, the UA-GBH Foundation created a professional training degree, Miage (computer-based methods applied to business management), in Guadeloupe, including coaching sessions for several hundred students looking for internships or employment and a contribution to the fees of a language course abroad for ten students.

In 2012, UAG won first prize in the “Relationships with companies” category during the MCE Awards (national awards for the innovations of universities and prestigious schools). The jury recognised the various tools and actions implemented by UAG, such as its proactive policy to bring together local economic players, which includes the UAG-GBH Foundation.

GBH – initially via Carrefour Destreland – has been a partner of the preparatory class for the prestigious business schools of the chamber of commerce and industry (CCI) of Guadeloupe since 2006. The aim is to increase interactions between companies and students by supporting them in their training and their search for internships and employment.

Since 2008, an intensive English language preparation course for the English portion of the entrance examinations for business schools is offered each year to three deserving students from the first year of the preparatory class, selected by the teachers. In addition, each year GBH's general management and human resources departments present the Group's activities and professions to second year students in the CCI preparatory class.

In July 2016, GBH provided funding for the language course in London of three deserving students to help them prepare for the English portion of the entrance examination to prestigious business schools.

Launched in 2012 in partnership with the École nationale supérieure des ingénieurs en arts chimiques et technologiques – Ensiacet (National School of Engineers in Chemical and Technological Arts), the INP (National Polytechnic Institute) of Toulouse and the Guadeloupe Region, the engineering department of Université des Antilles is the only one authorised by the French engineering accreditation institution of the Americas/Caribbean region. Established at the Fouillole campus, both of the department’s programmes, one in environmental engineering and the other in energy systems engineering, had 57 students in 2016.

The 13 first-year students enrolled in the energy systems course and the 8 in materials engineering were sponsored by Rodolphe Hayot, GBH’s executive officer. The Group offers internships in companies designed to promote their future employability, provides tours of its sites, organises meetings with its employees and thematic conferences lead by its executives.

These two high-level programmes contribute to the emergence of future managers capable of meeting the challenges of local economic and industrial development. They meet the needs of the territories and businesses. Six months after graduating, 75% of the engineering students of the 2015 year group were professionally integrated. The 2016 year group had a success rate of 78%.

GBH’s companies and EGC (School of management and business) of Reunion Island formed a strong relationship very early on. The agreement signed at the end of 2010, which marks a new stage in their relations, formalises this connection between GBH and the world of education. Its main objective is to help more EGC students undertake internships and market research in the Group’s companies, and support excellence by rewarding the best students of each year.

GBH and the Universités des Antilles et de la Guyane have been carrying out concrete actions since 2010 to bring the worlds of business and university closer together. This partnership was strengthened in 2011 with the creation of the UAG-GBH Partnership Foundation "Working together for training and employment", which has since become the UA-GBH Foundation.

Each year, the three partners organise three Jobs forums at the end of the year in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana. The forums provide an opportunity for the 500 to 1,000 young people who attend to meet university professors and business executives and to learn from roughly one hundred professionals, executives of GBH and other companies, about the fields of business, marketing, communication, law, banking, audit, management control, hygiene-quality-safety-environment, tourism, culture or engineering. Students can also take part in workshops and apply for internships. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation was extended for a period of five years. In addition to continuing to organise the Jobs Forums and the Dumar⁽¹⁾ and Miage⁽²⁾ professional vocational training programmes, the aim of these connections is to set up high-level professional training programmes at Université des Antilles, to provide visibility to the internships offered by GBH, to facilitate access to internships for applied foreign language students in the Caribbean, and ultimately, to promote the employability of young people in these territories. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation will also launch two thesis prizes, one dedicated to art and literature, and the other to the environment.

The next Jobs Forums will take place in Guadeloupe on 4 October and in Martinique on 22 November 2017.

The Université de la Guyane and GBH will organise the next Jobs Forum, on Wednesday 6 December 2017, as part of a partnership.

(1) In 2011, the UAG and GBH created a Department Manager university diploma (Dumar). Adapted to the real needs of the mass retail sector in the French West Indies-Guiana, this bachelor degree level work-study programme relies on experienced professionals who provide students with the skills and techniques required of department managers and the educational content of higher university education. Fifteen of the 20 students of the first year obtained their diploma. Twenty-six students graduated from the second year.

(2) In 2015, the UA-GBH Foundation created a professional training degree, Miage (computer-based methods applied to business management), in Guadeloupe, including coaching sessions for several hundred students looking for internships or employment and a contribution to the fees of a language course abroad for ten students.

In 2012, UAG won first prize in the “Relationships with companies” category during the MCE Awards (national awards for the innovations of universities and prestigious schools). The jury recognised the various tools and actions implemented by UAG, such as its proactive policy to bring together local economic players, which includes the UAG-GBH Foundation.

Since 2004, GBH, the local education authority and Bellepierre Secondary School have signed an agreement whose ambition is twofold: to bring the worlds of education – students in the preparatory classes for prestigious business schools and faculty – and business together, but also share the same requirements of consistency, competence and performance.

GBH proposes and finances internships abroad which reflect its desire to equip students with an open-minded attitude towards the world. The Group also offers internships in its various companies, in the territories where it is established, thus providing students with a first successful professional experience. The recipients of these two types of internships are selected after an interview with juries composed of members of the Group’s human resources managers and executives.

Created in 2012, the alumni network’s database aims to optimise the interaction between young graduates and the company. Through this network, business school students have easy access to internship offers within GBH, and graduates at the end of the course are informed of GBH job offers, both in Reunion Island and in other territories where GBH is established.

Lastly, the high school-business synergy was strengthened with the opening of work-study master's degree in chartered accounting (DSCG) at Bellepierre Secondary School, set up in association with the Greta de La Réunion Neotech III. This programme hosts interns from GBH and external companies who are under professional training contracts or professional training periods.

GBH is also a partner of the site www.reunionnaisdumonde.fr.

Mr. Bricolage has sponsored, since 2003, the "Yole du Robert", an activity led by the Las Palmas association, which aims to promote the social integration of young people from the city of Le Robert who are experiencing difficulties by involving them in a collective and unifying project: the construction and maintenance of a round skiff and training of its crew.

Skiffs are beautiful, traditional Martiniquan boats and the Tour des Yoles Rondes, a week-long team race which consists of sailing around the island, is a major event in Martinique.

The Las Palmas association, which upholds the values of integration, prevention, sharing and progress, knowing how to live together, as well as the transmission of experience and know-how from those with more experience to younger people, has appealed to Mr. Bricolage in such a way that the brand has been its exclusive partner since 2010.

GBH and Internat de la Réussite (Boarding Schools for Success) signed an agreement in 2014 regarding Martinique. Internat de la Réussite is a programme set up by the State in 2009, which helps deserving and working students from disadvantaged social backgrounds to pursue their studies in the best possible conditions.

The boarding school in Martinique can accommodate 73 students. It is dedicated to the preparatory classes of prestigious schools.

GBH is committed to helping students prepare for competitive examinations by:

• Covering the costs of language courses abroad which open students to the international context. In 2016, 30 students were able to discover Ireland during an immersion language programme.

• Participating in the Jobs Forums, which raise awareness of these young people to the socio-economic fabric and give them the key tools of their future profession.

• Preparing for examinations with the help and tutoring of Group employees.

• Organising activities that contribute to their cultural enrichment, such as visiting exhibitions at the Clément Foundation.

This partnership for the professional integration of young people continues in 2017.

GBH and the Universités des Antilles et de la Guyane have been carrying out concrete actions since 2010 to bring the worlds of business and university closer together. This partnership was strengthened in 2011 with the creation of the UAG-GBH Partnership Foundation "Working together for training and employment", which has since become the UA-GBH Foundation.

Each year, the three partners organise three Jobs forums at the end of the year in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana. The forums provide an opportunity for the 500 to 1,000 young people who attend to meet university professors and business executives and to learn from roughly one hundred professionals, executives of GBH and other companies, about the fields of business, marketing, communication, law, banking, audit, management control, hygiene-quality-safety-environment, tourism, culture or engineering. Students can also take part in workshops and apply for internships. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation was extended for a period of five years. In addition to continuing to organise the Jobs Forums and the Dumar⁽¹⁾ and Miage⁽²⁾ professional vocational training programmes, the aim of these connections is to set up high-level professional training programmes at Université des Antilles, to provide visibility to the internships offered by GBH, to facilitate access to internships for applied foreign language students in the Caribbean, and ultimately, to promote the employability of young people in these territories. 

In 2017, the UA-GBH Foundation will also launch two thesis prizes, one dedicated to art and literature, and the other to the environment.

The next Jobs Forums will take place in Guadeloupe on 4 October and in Martinique on 22 November 2017.

The Université de la Guyane and GBH will organise the next Jobs Forum, on Wednesday 6 December 2017, as part of a partnership.

(1) In 2011, the UAG and GBH created a Department Manager university diploma (Dumar). Adapted to the real needs of the mass retail sector in the French West Indies-Guiana, this bachelor degree level work-study programme relies on experienced professionals who provide students with the skills and techniques required of department managers and the educational content of higher university education. Fifteen of the 20 students of the first year obtained their diploma. Twenty-six students graduated from the second year.

(2) In 2015, the UA-GBH Foundation created a professional training degree, Miage (computer-based methods applied to business management), in Guadeloupe, including coaching sessions for several hundred students looking for internships or employment and a contribution to the fees of a language course abroad for ten students.

In 2012, UAG won first prize in the “Relationships with companies” category during the MCE Awards (national awards for the innovations of universities and prestigious schools). The jury recognised the various tools and actions implemented by UAG, such as its proactive policy to bring together local economic players, which includes the UAG-GBH Foundation.

GBH is a partner of the Nos Quartiers a Talents (NQT – Our Neighbourhoods have Talent) association, which promotes the professional integration of young people from priority neighbourhoods or disadvantaged social groups by arranging to have them sponsored by experienced entrepreneurs and executives. All young beneficiaries must be under the age of 30, with higher education degrees and in search of employment. The advice given by the sponsors is related to job searches, CVs, cover letters, interviews, help with networking, etc.

There are three separate systems.

"Nos Quartiers ont des Talents", the association’s historic operation, targets young graduates with at least 4 years’ higher education from the priority neighbourhoods of large French cities or disadvantaged social groups.

"Nos Territoires ont des Talents” targets young graduates with at least 3 years’ higher education in French territories where this level of diploma best suits the needs of the employment area.

"Nos Outremer ont des Talents” (Our Overseas Departments and Territories have Talent) targets young graduates with at least 3 years’ higher education who live in French overseas departments and territories. This system has been deployed since 2013 in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion Island and since 2015 in French Guiana. 

On the national level, 36,925 young graduates have been included in one of these three programmes since 2005, supported by 9,983 sponsors, thanks to the support of 930 partners and patrons. 70% of the young people in the study found a permanent and qualified job, in an average of seven months.

Many GBH executives have integrated this programme, which complements both the target (young graduates with 3 years’ higher education) and the object (equal opportunities) of the actions the Group already carries out for students.

GBH and Bellevue Secondary School signed an agreement to assist students in preparatory classes for prestigious business schools in their training and search for internships and employment.

Each year, three first-year students, selected by the faculty, are able to take a language course abroad, with GBH covering the costs of the foreign language courses during the stay. GBH's management team also welcomes second-year students to introduce the Group's business areas, as well as the most sought-after specialisations, and organises informal exchanges with its employees who graduated from prestigious schools.

Over the past few years, many deserving students have benefited from language courses in London, including one at the EF (Education First) international language centre, with plane tickets offered by Air Caraïbes as part of a partnership with GBH, a cultural trip to Paris, including tours of museums and the HEC campus in Jouy-en-Josas (78), or iPads offered during the "Prix de l'excellence" awards organised by Bellevue Secondary School. In addition, many students have completed internships in the Group's companies.

Martinique Automobiles, a subsidiary of GBH, launched a tailor-made vocational training programme in partnership with Pôle emploi and Opcalia. This initiative was designed to contribute to the professional reintegration in the automobile sector of young Martiniquan job seekers who have been unemployed for over a year. The tailor-made educational programme takes place at the MA/Academy, the Martinique Automobiles training centre.

In 2015, the eight selected candidates, aged 18 to 33, and holding a secondary school vocational diploma, a BEP (technical school certificate) or a CAP (vocational training certificate) in automotive mechanics and maintenance, received 400 hours of training divided between theoretical instruction and practical training experience in the Martinique Automobiles workshops.

In 2016, ten successful candidates each received three-month's training in the trade of workshop receptionist, which encompasses everything from customer relationship management to vehicle return.

For both sessions, graduation was preceded by a "job dating” encounter between candidates and professionals of the automotive sector, with self-management, self-presentation and recruitment interviews being an integral part of the training process. 

The results were positive: the majority of candidates selected during these two sessions graduated from their training and were recruited by car dealers, including Martinique Automobiles, or garages.

Martinique Automobiles makes every effort to continue and extend this vocational training programme leading to a job in the automotive sector.

Established in 1993 by 13 major groups, including Casino, Danone and Renault, the FACE (Fondation Agir Contre l’Exclusion – Action Against Exclusion Foundation) business club, with its 4,000 partners and recognised public utility, is a tool to prevent and work against all forms of exclusion and discrimination, particularly professional exclusion and discrimination. Its network of local clubs spans various territories in France and abroad.

In 2012, GBH and FACE conducted an initial joint action by organising a "Diversity and Excellence" morning together. The aim of this event, which was attended by students, economic, social and educational players, was to encourage young graduates to pursue management positions, to invite them to diversify their professional choices – particularly for women – and also to promote diversity within companies and professional organisations, from the recruitment process to career development.

In order to deepen and sustain their partnership, GBH and FACE-Martinique signed an agreement in February 2013 whose aim, through concrete actions, is to promote diversity and excellence and favour equal opportunities.

www.fondationface.org

GBH has a very active professional training and skills development policy, both internally and externally.

In 2011, in order to promote the employability of its current and future employees, GBH launched a work-study training programme in the field of department manager / operational retail manager (ROD). Seventy-five students from the West Indies, French Guiana and Reunion Island were trained during the first five years.

The ROD training programme "Becoming operational to sustainably integrate the managerial staff of a store" is a 3 years’ higher education certificate programme conducted in partnership with Neoma Business School. It is a work-study programme, consisting of one week of theoretical courses and three weeks of in-store practical experience, lasts 11 to 12 months and provides candidates motivated by trades in the specialised or food retail industries with a global vision of management, helping them acquire skills in business, management, but also in law, communication and human resources.

During the programme, the company’s salaried candidates are in a professional training period and those external to the company under a one-year fixed duration professional training contract, which can lead to a permanent contract at the end of the programme, if it is conclusive. The admission level required is a validated 2 years’ higher education diploma. The training programme results in a 3 years’ higher education diploma.

Trainees are hosted at GBH’s Carrefour, Mr. Bricolage and Decathlon stores in Reunion Island, Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana.

The next class will begin in September 2017. Are you passionate about jobs in the retail sector? Do you want to progress to management positions? Send your application to recrutement.drh@gbh.fr as soon as possible!

In 2013, SCIE Distribution, a subsidiary of GBH, set up two continuous training courses for employees of the Géant, Casino and Leader Price chains. The first issues a 2 years’ higher education department manager diploma, the second programme provides secondary school level education, as a department assistant. The educational content of the programmes was developed with Paris Executive Campus and Neoma Business School. Implementation is overseen by SCIE Distribution in partnership with the CCI of New Caledonia. The training lasts 15 months and includes 400 hours of theory lessons. The graduation ceremony for the first 28 employees to graduate from these two programmes was attended by Bernard Hayot, CEO of GBH, Stéphane Hayot and Rodolphe Hayot, executive officers of GBH, and Olivier Le Fournier, Assistant Dean of Neoma Business School. Now well mastered, the department manager programme has also been adapted to Reunion Island with Neoma Business School, and in Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana with Université des Antilles.