In recent months, our HR and CSR teams have mobilized to work with classes in elementary schools in Noisy-le-Grand and Courbevoie. Convinced of the societal role that the Vulcain group can play, these interventions aimed to talk about job diversity, and especially in the scientific field. (medicine, aerospace, chemistry and of course engineering).
Thanks to this initiative, led for the first time by the Syntec branch, we intervened in 7 classes and had the opportunity to talk with 250 students. We hope to have during these interventions arouse in some of them vocations in the scientific environment.
One of the students, delighted, testifies:”I loved the game “Who is it” to make you guess the job of designer, designer, or ecologist, that I didn't know“.
It is clear that awareness-raising among middle and high school students is sometimes unfortunately too late, as professional orientations have already been drawn up and family patterns are entrenched. It is therefore important, from an early age, to show children the range of possibilities open to them by showing them the vast range of jobs that can exist.
Beyond that, through dialogue and interaction, this action allowed deconstructing certain stereotypes : there are jobs for girls and jobs for boys, girls and boys have different abilities, it is not possible for boys to become a midwife and for girls to become a professional soccer player.
This meeting with the schoolchildren reinforces the societal approach undertaken by the group, signatory of the Engineering Charter on the diversity of jobs at Syntec. Moreover, recently, with the help of the Elles Bougent association, of which we are partners, we had run HR workshops to help high school and female students promote their skills on their CVs, or an inspiration session to discuss the careers of women who have reached positions of responsibility in engineering companies.
We warmly thank Syntec for bringing this strong approach to national education and for providing the signatories of the charter with the means of action to mobilize in order to change the image of engineering among young people, especially young girls.
