People
The growth of the Odebrecht Group's subsidiaries is a direct result of the growth of the people who comprise them, who are imbued with the spirit of service and focused on winning over clients and keeping them satisfied.
Built up on the basis of the principles, concepts and standards of the Odebrecht Entrepreneurial Technology, the development of Odebrecht Group Members is oriented toward improving their capacity to identify new business opportunities, as well as teamwork and a focus on making a contribution.
Their leaders are entrusted with the noble task of educating team members andcreating the conditions that will foster their growing expertise in an environment replete with challenges and achievements. Offering their time, presence, experience and example, leaders establish an open, frank and transparent channel of dialogue with their teams. They delegate responsibility for carrying out programs in a planned manner, educate people through work, help groom new entrepreneurs, and ensure the ongoing interaction of three generations - the senior, mature and young entrepreneurs who are always working side by side in this organization.
As a result, Odebrecht teams achieve unified thinking and action while working in several different countries. In doing so, they absorb positive influences from the many and varied cultures with which they interact, and build up knowledge that helps them improve entrepreneurial practices, identify trends, outline scenarios and achieve results that keep the Group abreast of present and future challenges.
Angolan Odebrecht members
Neuza Inglês and Agílio Moisés Campos
First job opportunity
Fully 92% of the 10,200 Odebrecht members working in Angola are Angolan nationals. And for 2,470 of them, this is the first job opportunity they have ever had. They are working on 16 public works projects and several social projects that Odebrecht is building in that African country.
Odebrecht has created several programs to find and recruit young Angolans in their homeland and abroad. For example, the "We Must Return" program offers people who left Angola to live in Brazil during the war a chance to go back (there are 8,000 young Angolans living in Rio de Janeiro alone). They get professional training from SENAI and return to Angola with a guaranteed job at an Odebrecht project.
Construtora Norberto Odebrecht carries out the "Young Partner" program in every country where it is present. It offers paid one-year internships that could lead to employment opportunities for Angolan engineering students at Agostinho Neto University, and young people taking technical courses at the Industrial Institutes of Luanda and Benguela.
During their internships with the Group, these young people have access to technical education programs and get the skills they need to make bigger contribution to their country's development.
INTERNS AND TRAINEES
In 2006, 104 trainees and 137 interns joined the Odebrecht Group after being selected from over 21,000 young candidates.
Trainees
Construtora Norberto Odebrecht - 80 (53 in Brazil and 27 in other countries)
Braskem - 24 (Brazil)
Interns
Construtora Norberto Odebrecht - 53 (41 in Brazil and 12 in other countries)
Braskem - 80 (Brazil)
Odebrecht Foundation - 4 (Brazil)
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