Processes to ensure the availability of a skilled workforce (EU15)

Ensuring the availability of a skilled workforce is one of the most important areas from a human resources perspective. During the next decade, 16% of Vattenfall’s employees will retire, which means the company must attract, recruit, develop and retain skilled employees. The annual Competence Planning process has been implemented to analyse the organisation’s current competence status and future competence needs on the basis of business plans.

Every recruitment is an investment for the recruited person, the recruiting unit and for the Vattenfall Group. Vattenfall has adopted a recruitment instruction to ensure recruitment of the right employees. Recruitment is a long-term commitment for the Vattenfall Group; the aim is to recruit people not for a specific job, but to take the Group’s long-term needs into consideration.