Employment fair puts Sanofi staff in the spotlight: Prospective employers meet potential new recruits

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to describe how around 300 staff who were being made redundant when Sanofi's medicine‐manufacturing plant at Dagenham, Kent, closed in June attended an employment fair organized by the company to help them to find new jobs.

Design/methodology/approach

It explains the reasons for the employment fair, the form it took and what some participants thought about it.

Findings

It reveals that the event attracted 37 international, national and regional businesses, from a range of industries, which between them had vacancies for more than 1,500 employees.

Practical implications

The paper draws attention to the fact that Sanofi's 108‐acre site has been sold to an organization that will turn it into a multi‐occupancy science, business, manufacturing and retail park that aims to attract new companies that will generate several thousand new jobs over the next three years.

Social implications

It describes a way in which a company facing redundancies can help its employees to showcase their potential to other potential employers.

Originality/value

The paper highlights a couple of ways in which employers can help their employees to find new work.

Citation

(2013), "Employment fair puts Sanofi staff in the spotlight: Prospective employers meet potential new recruits", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 24-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-08-2013-0063