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#Our employees A new recruitment approach adopted by Rexel for the past few years was generalized in 2017 on the geographic as well as the hierarchical level. The aim is to seek out the talent that the Group needs thanks to improved offer visibility, especially on social networks. In terms of internal mobility, the global Job Board displays the job openings at the Group’s locations around the world. Roughly 400 job offers are constantly presented, including around 100 international ones, and employees can create job alerts

based on their areas of interest. At the same time, the number of training hours and personnel trained continues to grow (+17% and +12% respectively vs. 2016), driven by the digital training program that has been strongly implemented in every country. The training sessions, some of which are provided by suppliers, increasingly focus on product knowledge (924 new modules in 2017), as well as on sales methods and salesforce management. By the end of 2017, 26,000 people had access to the Rexel Academy.