New career development toolboxes

Ready for something new in your career? The three handy toolboxes that guide you through the many opportunities in our company explain everything. Hanne Watté of the VAK centre Co-Worker gladly presents them.

What exactly are those toolboxes?

Hanne • “Colruyt Group has many tools about career development, but not many people knew about them and there was little structure. We've now compiled them in three handy overviews. They form a framework with all the means and services on careers that Colruyt Group offers its workers: interesting doc numbers, useful exercises such as drawing up a personal development plan, specific training courses, etc. Ideal for every worker and for managers to whom employees go with questions about their careers.”

What toolboxes are there?

“Career development can be broken down into roughly three phases. We've developed a box for each phase.

3,837

That's the number of workers who received a flu jab through Colruyt Group in the autumn. 1,922 store workers, 1,150 office workers and 765 logistics and production colleagues had the jab. “It has become a tradition that we offer our workers a flu jab", coordinator Tom Van Gysegem says. “The health of our people is very important to us.”

In this way, we help to improve everyone's health, step by step.

1. Further growth in your current role: what's the best way to go about this?

2. You want to do something else, but don't know what yet: how do you decide on your next career move?

3. You want to grow into a new role in the short or longer term: how do you get started? And what steps can you take?”

Why are these toolboxes necessary?

“Colruyt Group is known for its varied careers and wide range of internal job and career opportunities. However, we're a large group with many departments, sites and buildings, which sometimes makes it difficult for employees to see the wood for the trees and informal contact is not always easy. However, we want to encourage that internal growth and try even more than today to fill vacancies with internal workers. To achieve this goal, it's important those colleagues have the right info and means. That's why these toolboxes are an ideal tool to guide them to their next career move.”

3 handy toolboxes

• Growing in your current role: doc980.124

• Determining your next career step: doc1.077.001

• Evolving towards a new role: doc1.077.002

Less industrial accidents

Good news! The number of industrial accidents in Colruyt stores has dropped considerably the last year. “417 days less absence from work due to industrial accidents than last year”, Andries Verdegem, superior of the health and safety officers, explains. “The investments in projects that increase the well-being of store workers are bearing fruit in other words. Our working environment is becoming safer and our workers' awareness of health and safety has also grown. Can we do even better? I think so, if everyone assumes their responsibilities with the necessary attention to health and safety. Meanwhile, we continue to work toward keeping the risks on the shop floor as low as possible, for example by making technical changes to the pallet transporter to make it even safer.”

In this way, we help to improve everyone's health, step by step.

Welcome trainees!

Our company is an interesting place to work, also for students who want a taste of professional life during a traineeship. During the first 11 months of 2022 - across the whole group - 950 trainees went to work. “For secondary school students, this often concerns dual learning, where they combine their studies with work experience in, say, one of our stores”, coordinator Ellen Van den Abbeele explains. “College or university students often opt for a support service that matches their field of interest or study. This allows them to work on concrete projects in a large company in line with their studies. And it offers us an opportunity to hire talented workers.” Do you know someone who would like to follow a traineeship at Colruyt Group? Our trainee posts are available on jobs.colruytgroup.com.

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