ACS
Actividades de Construcción y Servicios

Recruitment policies

Of the 113,273 employees of the ACS Group at the end of 2005, 9,318 were management or professionals with degrees, 13,317 were technical and clerical staff and 90,638 were specialists and operatives.

ACS Group endeavors to provide staff with a context and prospects in which professionals can develop their talent and reap the rewards of their work as something valuable and desirable. A fundamental part of this strategy is the attraction of young technicians that are able to progress and develop an enriching professional career at the Company.

In this regard, for years the ACS Group has applied a recruitment program in the different companies of the Group based on a rigorous hiring process that allows it to benefit from the best professionals from each sector. Consequently, the Group has offered a program of grants for students amid their final year of university studies in Spain, as well as grants channeled through other educational institutions, such as Fundación Universidad Empresa.

Recruitment policies are established in each of the areas of the ACS Group and are based on the annual workforce planning, which is line with the areas' strategic objectives. In order to respond to the needs arising in the countries in which the ACS Group is present, local graduates are hired.

At the end of 2005, 30% of the staff of the ACS Group were females. The Group follows an equal-opportunities policy that prohibits all types of discrimination of individuals in hiring or assuming of positions.