15/05/07: Five Consultants Participate in our Last PhD Event. 

On 19 April, Altran organized a PhD event in the Netherlands to stay in touch with post-graduates. Our consultants were invited to share their professional experience with them. Five of them give us some feed-back:
- Emil Totev, currently occupied with analog and mixed signal circuit design for a radio front-end at the Nijmegen facility of NXP Semiconductors.
- Eva Mondt, working on the ASML TWINSCAN™ lithography system.
- Horatio Drut, working for Altran Technologies in the Netherlands.
- Maristelle Spella, working on a NXP internal project known as NX-Builder.
-Alessio Pistidda, working for Heerema Marina Contractor BV on the structural analysis of pipeline installations 

Our five consultants were all thrilled to be able to answer your questions about our most important clients, career opportunities, job security, possibilities to practice in your chosen field of expertise, and organizational issues such as the length of the recruitment process, training, working abroad.

Alessio Pistidda, for example, particularly enjoyed being able to explain to candidates how “people with PhDs can develop their scientific knowledge and skills by facing always newer challenges, sometimes in fields different from their own background. A company like Altran, in fact, asks you to be flexible, and this is also the reason why it is very attractive and helpful for your career growth.”

On his end, Emil Totev says “it has been my pleasure to represent Altran at several recruitment events. The satisfaction was ever so great when people who were previously unfamiliar with the company or felt hesitant about what it could offer, became excited about the opportunities that working as a technical consultant presents.”

What PhD students say really convinced them is: Altran's operational diversity and regard for high level specializations.



01/03/07: Consultants’ Week-end of the Altran Foundation for Innovation: Munich, 5-6 May.

The Altran Foundation for Innovation organizes its annual Consultants’ Selection Week-End in Munich from 5 to 6 May. The week-ends constitute the first selection of applicants to the Foundation’s prize. Approximately 50 consultants from Altran are present to participate in the study and short-listing process.

For now more than 10 years the Altran Foundation for Innovation has allocated annual prices to a researcher or a project holder in the field of scientific innovations to the benefit of society. The winning project, as well as the runners-up, typically have an international scope, touching upon themes as varied as access to water, developing countries, early childhood, and scientific education, to name but a few. This year's theme is 'Mending the Human Body', which comprises all projects that search for solutions to repair the altered functions of the human body.

This year’s Altran Foundation for Innovation theme attracted more than 100 candidates. The president of the jury is Pierre Tambourin – Chief Executive of Genopole.