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Looking for the best

19 Jan 2009 - Iris Rona
Sophie Gourod

If you think ITER has been growing fast in 2008, wait until you see what will happen in 2009. From just over 300 employees at the turn of the year, we may well be close to 500 by the end of 2009.

And to help us recruit and integrate these new employees as efficiently as possible, Sophie Gourod joined ITER on 5 January. She is the responsible officer for the recruitment and training plan within the Human Resources Division. Part of her job will be to coordinate the work of the recruitment team to prepare and manage the upcoming recruitment waves. She will of course work closely with all departments to assess staff needs and to elaborate a recruitment plan. She will also ensure that the new positions are advertised as broadly as possible in order to attract the best candidates.

Sophie also plans to develop a welcome training program for new arrivals to give them global information about the project, as well as practical information on internal rules and regulations, health benefits, retirement plan, and how to use the internal information database IDM, etc.

Setting up a training plan will be her other key mission, and more particularly, developing corporate training sessions on security and safety (in close collaboration with the relevant department) and management training, but also working with departments on setting up specific technical training courses.

Before joining ITER, Sophie worked at the CEA and for recruitment agencies for 10 years. The last three years she was Head of Communication for the Cadarache Centre, but before that she was responsible for training and worked as a consultant in recruitment. So in a way she is coming back to her first love because her background is in occupational psychology and human resources, and that is the field she feels most passionate about.

"I am really thrilled to join ITER in this job," she says. "It is the perfect combination between my background and what I enjoy doing. And doing this job in a project like ITER, where the international aspect adds multiple complexities to finding, integrating and retaining the best people, is an even greater challenge."

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