Orange Romania (Romania) - ENGAGE 2010

Orange is a Romanian mobile telecommunications company, with 10,398,884 customers in the third 2010 quarter.

The problem identified by the “ENGAGE 2010” programme is that the current education system does not offer enough resources for students to identify their skills and eventually choose the right career.

The employees at Orange Romania are young, with an average age of 30 years, and many of them had to deal with this issue in high school.

Given the existing community need and the employees’ availability, the main goal of the programme was to provide volunteers with a setting to share their experience with young students in search of a career.

The approach relied on the interaction between volunteers and beneficiaries, who worked together as peers. Training sessions for volunteers and mentoring sessions were planned on the following topics: career, getting a job, negotiation and communication techniques, conflict management.

To ensure a more realistic vision, mentoring sessions were followed by visits to different departments of the company involving 25 students. ENGAGE ended with a community project; employees and students worked together to change the face of a school at the beginning of the academic year.