Last November 19, Sophia Antipolis e-HR presented the recruitment portal “www.sophiaantipolis-careers.com” at the European Career Fair for Research “Research”.
This portal now allows HR departments in the IT and life sciences sectors of the Azurean technology park to recruit in an innovative and interactive manner. They can easily connect with new talents worldwide.
This innovation addresses the growth and skills renewal challenges of Sophia Antipolis, a leading employment hub in new technologies with already more than 30,000 highly qualified profiles.
This initiative was particularly appreciated by visitors at the fair. The site now counts nearly 800 profiles.
An Interactive and Tailor-Made Recruitment Portal
Co-created by the startup from Sophia Antipolis, MAC2C, and the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce, the site www.sophiaantipoliscareers.com is the official recruitment and internship portal for Sophia Antipolis. It focuses on the needs of the information technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors. It was developed in close collaboration with the HR departments of companies in Sophia Antipolis, notably Amadeus, Sopra group, Virbac, Galderma, Supralog, SAP, as well as INRIA and Laboratoires Genévrier.
Its principle: offer a real-time service for distributing job and internship offers on mobile devices while closely matching candidates’ skills to the specific needs of companies.
To achieve this, it lists, on one side, an employer database that defines their selection criteria and affinities in detail (using a very precise skills classification for software, programming languages, etc.). On the other side, a candidate database details their professional qualifications, personal qualifications, and the positions they are seeking, mentioned in a form without a CV, including their mobile phone number.
The system can then broadcast the most relevant job offers to candidates and the most suitable skills to companies in a “push” mode (emails and SMS) and in real-time.
As Pierre Lafon, founder of MAC2C, states, “this tool offers a triple advantage: privacy is preserved thanks to direct contact, refined targeting which avoids job offers being viewed by people with inadequate profiles, and hence a significant time saving for both employers and candidates.”
“The key skills that make up the content of the site have been defined with the HR directors and recruiters from companies; this ensures alignment with their real needs,” adds Jean-Charles Amoroz, Project Manager at the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce.
“Always in search of new talents,” according to Philippe Servetti, Director of Development for Team Côte d’Azur, the economic promotion and development agency for the Côte d’Azur, the territory will be able to strengthen its constantly growing pool of expertise thanks to this RH 2.0 portal.
A Unique Collaborative Initiative at the Local Level
This portal is one of the innovative solutions implemented by the “e-HR of Sophia Antipolis,” a transversal HR department formed last year from the grouping of HR players in Sophia Antipolis (Club of Leaders, Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce, Persan, Telecom Valley, and Team Côte d’Azur) and based on the Côte d’Azur Ecobiz collaborative platform.
“Sophia Antipolis e-HR is a unique collaborative initiative at the local level, and the recruitment portal is an operational tool that best meets the needs of HR departments of companies,” explains Jean-Charles Amoroz, HR Manager and animator of this community at the Nice Côte d’Azur Chamber of Commerce.
The objective of “Sophia Antipolis e-HR”: pooling the resources and skills of the technology park.
Beyond the portal “www.sophiaantipolis-careers.com”, it provides services related to housing, work permits and visas, contract management, administrative procedures, taxation, etc., to all companies in Sophia Antipolis.
With, for example, housing assistance for new recruits, crucial for Stéphane Boero, International Recruitment Officer and Integration of Amadeus: “welcoming the employee, his or her spouse and children under the best conditions is a strong concern because it determines the integration and retention of the employee in the company, which is thus more attractive.”
But also by organizing targeted and shared training sessions among all the companies in the technology park (large groups, SMEs, very small businesses, startups).
“The pooling of training actions offers many advantages, notably optimizing ‘training’ budgets, meeting more demands, and diversifying the offer to employees of each company,” rejoices Marie-Line Ramfos, Training Manager at INRIA.
Indeed, it allows particularly for very small businesses, which do not have many resources, to have an HR department that their structure does not allow them to have.
The 1st Step of the “Sophia Antipolis Welcomes Talents” Program
“Whether among multinationals, innovative SMEs, or technology-intensive startups, the talents employed by companies in Sophia Antipolis represent a genuine pool of skills on a national and international scale. Innovative, this portal and initiative illustrate the commitment of the territory’s economic players: to retain and strengthen this talent reservoir to support companies in their development. This is the first step of the “Sophia Antipolis welcomes talents” program,” concludes Philippe Servetti, Director of Development for Team Côte d’Azur.
