OHL launches Young Talents, an international young talents program

The OHL Group has launched Young Talents, an international young talents program aimed at incorporating professionals into the company with huge potential and different profiles, ranging from engineering to business administration & management. Through this program, nearly fifty recent graduates have acquired their first work experience by participating in infrastructure projects that the company is executing in different countries.

80% of the program’s participants have joined projects that OHL is executing in countries such as Norway, Turkey, Czech Republic, Moldavia, Algeria, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Chile or Mexico. The remaining 20% belongs to the company’s team in Spain, backing up technical and study areas.

The company’s internationalization, as it is present in more than 30 countries all over the world, has led OHL to focus its global human resources policy on commitment to talent, attracting its employees and furthering their career. In the words of Josep Piqué, CEO and second vice-chairman of OHL, “it is a matter of generating policies to attract talent, which also help us distribute such talent worldwide”.

OHL’s commitment to attract talent to the company has been reinforced with nearly 30 collaboration agreements it has signed with professional associations, business schools, universities and other educational centers in Spain and elsewhere, such as U.S.A., the Czech Republic or Saudi Arabia.

2015-2020 Strategic Plan

Young Talents is part of the company’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan, which reinforces the Group’s commitment to persons by launching talent identification and management programs, mobility plans and international development.  

OHL’s growing globalization has resulted in 65% of its staff being located outside Spain. By December 2015, the Group has increased the number of foreign recruitments by nearly 10% with respect to 2014. This increase has focused on countries such as the USA, Canada and Pacific Alliance countries- Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru-, in addition to the Czech Republic, all of which are treated by OHL’s Strategic Plan as home markets along with Spain.

Participants of the program Young Talents, in Norway.