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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Recruitment at Capgemini
Interview with Carolyn Nimmy, Vice President, HR, Capgemini
As Corporate Social Responsibility continues to be discussed in boardrooms, many top MBA schools around the world are realizing they must equip graduates with CSR knowledge. The TopMBA Career Guide spoke with Carolyn Nimmy, Vice President of HR at Capgemini about CSR and recruitment.
Can you tell us about your own background at Capgemini and your current role?
I work in the Capgemini Global HR team and my current responsibilities include:
· Leading Diversity, CSR and Sustainability initiatives
· Learning and Development - local/global curricula around key roles and competencies, leveraging our global Learning Management System, increasing blended learning and driving an improved learner experience
· Management of Global Employee Survey
I have worked and lived in a number of countries during my career including the USA, Spain, Germany and the UK. I have experience in the above, as well as recruitment, on-boarding, internal communications, e-learning, leadership and career development, performance management and diversity.
I am currently the Chair of the Supervisory Group of AIESEC International – AIESEC is the world’s largest student-run organization, focused on creating future leaders and social entrepreneurs.
Please remind us of Capgemini’s scope and main business activities.
Capgemini is a world leader in the provision of Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing and Local Professional Services, enabling our clients to transform their businesses through technology. It has expanded by over 50,000 employees in the last ten years.
Capgemini is a global company with headquarters in France (where there are over 20,000 employees) and operates in more than 30 countries. India has become the second largest market in terms of staff with a headcount of around 17,000, followed by the USA, UK, Netherlands and Spain.
Why does it make good business sense for Capgemini to have an active CSR policy?
Capgemini is an intellectual services company. It needs a strong brand and a reputation for being honest and straightforward in the way it does business. Its values are essential to maintaining ongoing business relationships with its clients, as well as hiring and retaining talent.
Capgemini seeks to have an impact on broader communities with people being attracted to it because of its pro-active stance on CSR. We celebrated The Company’s 40th birthday in 2007 and are proud that Sustainable Development has always been a central theme. It is constantly encouraging staff to make a difference in both their community and their work.
Capgemini seeks to be recognized as a ‘thought leader’ by helping its clients to be more sustainable in their supply chain, IT sourcing and architecture of their IT systems. Our clients recognize the need for sustainability and appreciate our genuine commitment to this business objective through our recommendations.
As a publicly quoted company, many funds and rating agencies favour ‘socially responsible’ companies. As such we can become more attractive to additional investors by being serious about CSR.
Can you give some examples of how Capgemini has acted on its CSR policy?
Everything we do at Capgemini can have a focus on CSR and sustainability. We aim to protect the environment. We work to make our offices environmentally friendly and look to Reduce, Re-use and Recycle wherever we can.
Our data centres are energy-efficient; consolidating infrastructure platforms can reduce overall power and cooling requirements by driving up utilization. Selecting power-efficient infrastructures reduces the power requirement per unit of capacity and we can re-use waste heat from data centres to heat office space. By working in conjunction with Ethical Disposal Service Providers, we can improve asset disposal to both meet the EC Directive on Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment and maximize recycling.
Our travel is being scaled back by the use of video conferencing and collaboration tools, with travel between Mumbai and Utrecht reduced by 30% last year alone, after the introduction of high-quality video connections.
Capgemini builds strong internal awareness of CSR issues through its internal news and video channel. It has features on sustainability and regular executive interviews discussing CSR initiatives. Last year, hundreds of employees responded with individual stories from the field or participated in monthly quizzes and downloaded promotional posters and brochures for further distribution.
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