NEWS
Mercedes-Benz
Cars to build
battery factory
in Jawor, Poland
French bank, Crédit Agricole
Ile-de-France, chooses Infor
Talent Science
I
n the course of the electric initiative,
Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery
factory at the polish site in Jawor and
thus extend the global battery production
network of up to nine factories.
“We will electrify the complete portfolio
until 2022 and will be able to offer in each
segment various electrified alternatives
to our customers. This includes more than
10 pure electric vehicles. We will produce
batteries on our own, what we consider a
significant success factor in the era of electric
mobility,” said Markus Schäfer, Member of
the Divisional Board of Management of
Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply
Chain. “After the production of high-tech
engines, we will establish additional future
technology in Poland. The battery factory
in Jawor is the second largest investment at
this new Mercedes-Benz site.”
In Jawor, approximately 100km away from
the German border, a state-of-the-art engine
factory is currently being built. The plant will
produce four cylinder engines for hybrid and
conventionally driven vehicles. This will be the
first production site of Mercedes-Benz Cars in
Poland and will offer more than 1,000 jobs.
“The decision of Mercedes-Benz Cars to
start the production of electric batteries for
a new type of vehicle in Jawor shows that
companies that have started operations in
our country positively assess the investment
climate and want to continue to grow here.
We are witnessing the 4.0 industrial revolution
in which Poland plays a leading role,” said
Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Poland. Morawiecki also said
that he is glad Jawor will produce not only
traditional engines, but also the hearts of cars
of the future.
I
nfor, a global leader in business cloud
software specialised by industry, has
announced that French bank, Crédit
Agricole Ile-de-France, has selected
Infor’s predictive recruitment solution,
Infor Talent Science, to help improve the
retention rate of its new client advisers, a
particularly strategic group of employees
in charge of customer relations. Within
one year after deploying a pilot of the
solution, the use of Infor Talent Science
resulted in a 10-point drop in the turnover
rate of new hires.
Patricia Vedel, Head of the Recruitment
and Career Management Department
at Crédit Agricole’s Caisse Ile-de-France,
said: “At the end of 2017, we started
this initiative as part of a global project
aimed at focusing on the behavioural
preferences and diversity of the profiles
of our new hires, going beyond simply
evaluating technical competence.”
In search of a solution capable of
improving the recruitment process of
customer advisers and increasing their
retention rate during the first year, Crédit
Agricole Ile-de-France discovered Infor’s
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predictive analysis tool, recently available
in France, and decided to test it.
The three-month pilot selection project
consisted of identifying performance-
related behavioural qualities of current
employees in the Client Adviser position,
in order to create a benchmark of success
to compare against future candidates.
Ingrid Hoskin, HCM Senior Account
Manager in France, in charge of the
project at Infor, said: “Each company
and each candidate is unique. With
Infor Talent Science, we provide our
customers with a solution that helps
them instantly identify the best
candidates for each position. Thanks
to a broad spectrum of performance
and behaviour data, our tool allows us
to define unique predictive models –
specific to each company and each type
of position – improving recruitment,
retention and talent development
throughout a career simultaneously. This
solution revolutionises HR management
and offers a new approach to Talent
Management and SWP (Strategic
Workforce Planning).” n
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