Our skill-sharing programme
Under our skill-sharing programme, employees can apply their experience to community service projects during their working hours. Find out how it works.
An innovative approach
As well as providing financial support to our non-profit partners, our employees also contribute their time and skills. Under this programme, created by the SNCF Foundation and HR Department, our people can apply their experience to a good cause.
Supporting a project of their choice
If their manager agrees, all SNCF employees—based on their availability and areas of interest—can spend 1 to 10 days a year helping our partner non-profits on a community service project, either alone or with their colleagues.
Who can join the programme?
Any employee (including temporary employees and work-study participants), whatever their job, can join the short-term skill-sharing programme. With 150 different job categories at SNCF Group, SNCF Foundation offers non-profits access to the skills of employees working in wide-ranging fields.
Above all, our skills-sharing programme is about the experience of building community and forging bonds between people. It’s also a source of pride and motivation for the employees who take part, adding an enriching dimension to their professional lives and highlighting their skills. At SNCF Group, we encourage employees to get involved in this programme, which brings personal convictions and community values into their everyday jobs.
What are the benefits of volunteering?
- Enriches you through diversity
- Develops your skills
- Improves your observation and listening abilities
- Fosters open-mindedness
- Puts things into perspective and makes you more empathetic
- Makes you proud of your company and team
- Encourages new ways of collaborating and working
How?
Volunteering activities employees can sign up for include:
- Offering their professional skills to a non-profit
- Helping a disadvantaged young person with their studies, career plans, or business project
- Contributing their skills to a non-profit at specific events, like the Outreach Days
- Taking part in a Team Solidarity1 seminar organized by their manager.
Tristan Michel helps young people set up community service projects
Our long-term skill-sharing programme
Ever since 2021, we allow eligible employees to take on full-time assignments with a non-profit that can last from 6 months to 2 years.