FS Italiane is the "2016 Best Employer of Choice"
Rome, 3 February 2016
The Gruppo FS Italiane wants to top, for the second year in a row, the standings of companies most coveted by young graduates: “2016 Best Employer of Choice”, the Cesop Communication survey which annually examines the level of satisfaction of a representative sample of 2,500 young graduates with a panel of 100 national and multi-national companies, has in fact confirmed the first place achieved in 2015 by FS Italiane in the ranking of favourite realities as potential workplaces.
The Group has again achieved top spot, which it had climbed up to since 2009 by gaining as many as fourteen places – 15th in 2009, 13th in 2010, 8th in 2011, 3rd in 2012, 2nd in 2013, 3rd in 2014, 1st in 2015 and again in 2016 – climbing on each occasion above important national and international companies that have always met the appreciation of youngsters.
A result which confirms FS Italiane’s far-reaching commitment to the task of constantly communicating to youngsters the profound transformation that has seen and still sees it acting as a main player. A company appreciated at international level for its know-how and innovation, which looks confidently to the future, thanks to the solid economic results and the technological excellence, and which has been actively participating in the modernization of the Country through the enhancement and intermodal integration of the different transport systems, from a perspective of environmental and social sustainability.
A project that looks to the future and that precisely the youngsters may help realize better than anybody else; pursuant to this awareness, FS Italiane has been promoting for years targeted and diversified activities aimed at identifying and attracting the best talents, thereby bridging the distance between Company and University. The strong commitment to employer branding activities, meeting with young graduates on the occasion of the several annual events - Job Meeting, Career and Recruiting Day – planned in order to put forward the professional offer, the many job orientation initiatives envisaged in conjunction with Universities and Italian Schools, the offer of masters, Bachelor’s theses, stages, workshops, seminars, awards and competitions for the best ideas, the annual introduction into the company of several graduates based on criteria of merit and transparency, but also the projects dedicated to young graduates involving ad hoc training courses, mentoring programs, job rotation, development of inter-disciplinary innovation projects and development centres.
All of these, along with a great daily team effort, are the reasons why FS Italiane is seen as a reality capable of offering youngsters many real opportunities for professional growth and training.
“Being again at the top of young graduates’ satisfaction, - stated Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of Gruppo FS Italiane – makes us extremely proud. By choosing the youngsters best capable of supporting our innovative vision, we want to constantly add value to the company, by offering clients increasingly more qualified services that are able to concretely improve the daily life of all of us. That is why it is necessary to identify persons who are not only excellent from a CV point of view, but are especially passionate about the project of change we are tracing for our Country”.
“We are by now a deeply renewed company – underlined Stefano Savino, Central Director of Human Resources and Group Organisation – thanks also to the generational replacement we have relied upon in recent years, in order to ensure the right mix of expertise and innovation. Every year we hire between 50 and 100 new graduates, males and females, who develop a passion for the profession because they know they can truly apply whatever they learnt during the course of their studies. With us, talents know they can grow and gain experience, raising to the business challenges and contributing to innovate and make the company grow.”