LVMH highlights its recruitment campaign as vacancies reach record levels

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While it might be obvious for the world's largest luxury group, vacancies are peaking amid a shortage of skilled workers, said Chantal Gaemperle, executive vice president of human resources and synergies at LVMH , at an event highlighting the company's recruiting efforts over the past 12 months.

“We have to prepare for the future now, and this is all the more crucial since it is difficult to find talent and we have very great needs,” she told the employees gathered at the LVMH headquarters, avenue Montaigne in Paris, for the screening of a short film based on the story of Lucie Faucher, an apprentice seamstress at Givenchy.

“We have a record number of vacancies this year. We have 2,000 left to fill by the end of the year and we need leatherworkers, jewellers, watchmakers and sales staff, but also hoteliers and restaurateurs. And if we look a little further to 2024, we are talking about 30,000 positions to be filled to ensure continuity,” she added.

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Underlining the importance of the issue, the Chairman and CEO of LVMH, Bernard Arnault, attended the screening of the documentary entitled "Métiers d'Excellence, le Cercle Virtueux". The group, which owns brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Guerlain, plans to release a trailer for the film on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday.

Alexandre Boquel, head of development for LVMH's Métiers d'Excellence division, says the group has stepped up efforts to find new talent, including a recruitment tour of five French cities and school programs targeting 1,600 students under the age of 14. "It's been a crazy year with a single obsession: passing on the know-how," he said.

LVMH plans to strengthen the workforce of its Institut des Métiers d'Excellence, which has trained some 1,400 people in France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Germany and Japan since its creation in 2014. This fall, 450 apprentices will join the program, which extends for the first time in the United States with the jeweler Tiffany & Co.

Boquel invited Faucher, who combines his apprenticeship at Givenchy with professional studies at the Institut Français de la Mode, on stage to detail his experience. The apprentice seamstress revealed that she applied for the position by sewing a jacket and embroidering her CV on the lining.

To highlight the potential of a career in craftsmanship, Boquel pointed to the fact that Jacqueline Smeyers-Picot, head of the blur division of Dior's haute couture workshop, won the prestigious National Order this year. merit for its services to the fashion sector.