Longchamp looks beyond new artisans’ age and academic record
13/12/2018
Longchamp has three training centres around France and a partnership with government training and employment agency Pôle Emploi. Candidates spend three months in training and then six months on the workshop floor, with a fixed-term employment contract, putting what they have learned into practice.
If a person needs extra time before becoming part of the production team, that’s fine too. If all goes well, the fixed-term contract becomes a permanent contract.
Specialist in-house trainer, Isabelle Lepy, told the magazine that as many as 60 of Longchamp’s 800 employees retire each year and need replacing. So far, the training centres have led to 150 new people joining the workforce. Ms Lepy said her main aim is to pass on to new people the company’s “spirit of working together”.
Isabelle Lepy was one of eight craftspeople to receive a prestigious award, the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, in November in recognition of their contribution to France’s cultural heritage.
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