Better manage today’s skills to anticipate tomorrow’s needs

Since 2024, annual appraisals have been conducted, online, in a dedicated space via the new BRGM Carrières portal. A number of tabs allow employees to track progress towards their career objectives, state their mobility wishes and, a new feature for the 2025 campaign, enter their skills. Professional skills but also extra-professional ones that can be used at BRGM (fluency in a foreign language, ability to pilot drones, climbing, potholing, etc.), which everyone can also declare at any time in their personal space, while specifying their estimated level of proficiency. 

“This approach,” explains Anne Gauthier, “lets us build up a database for the institution, which can be used to identify employees with the skills we’re looking for, even by combining several criteria.” This feature is already available for scientific professions and will be possible for support profiles in 2025. The list was drawn up on the basis of the European Research Council (ERC) standards as part of the institution’s Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) accreditation.

An overall and up-to-date view 

The first users of interest are project managers responsible for mobilising a team. “By offering an overall, up-to-date view of the entire institution, this module makes it possible to broaden the search for profiles and to identify people who have been rarely or never approached for the skills they possess, with the aim of offering them corresponding assignments,” emphasises Anne Gauthier. “As our business grows, this should help us to spread our workload more evenly.” Another advantage is that this overview of the skills available will reveal those that are lacking or in short supply, making it easier to manage and, above all, anticipate jobs, in line with the institution’s strategy.

Finally, BRGM Carrières is optimising career management by making it easier for employees to enter their mobility wishes and training requests, for which a module is currently being developed. Another, dedicated to the Careers Committee, will also be added. “The aim of this integrated tool is to streamline and increase the reliability and traceability of all our HR processes, for more transparent and efficient management for the institution and its employees,” explains Marie Belossat. 

Much-appreciated quality of life at work 

This development is likely to further boost employee satisfaction with the institution. The 2024 edition of the social barometer shows very positive results for the quality of life and working conditions (QLWC) at BRGM, despite industrial action throughout the year, which has since been given satisfaction by a pay rise granted by the Chair and CEO. Employees particularly appreciate the work-life balance (for 87% of respondents), the working environment (76%) and the sense of community, even when working remotely (76%).

This QLWC should improve further, thanks to the agreement negotiated with employee representatives in 2024 and signed at the beginning of 2025. It introduces new measures relating to parenthood, such as improved teleworking conditions for young parents, and to citizenship, including the extension to the whole of France of the benefits previously granted only to volunteer firefighters in the Loiret region (8 days’ paid leave).