RTVE appoints a former executive of INECO, Sacyr and Carrefour as director of Human Resources
Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) considers the climate of labour unrest that has intensified in recent weeks to be under control, marked by tensions between trade unions, the announcement of the first competitive examinations in the Corporation in the last sixteen years to fill 1,082 positions and, just after this, the resignation of the director of Human Resources, Pablo Galán. The second of these three main points, despite the many internal doubts, is already on track, and the third, solved.
According to this newspaper, RTVE’s Human Resources and Organisation office has been occupied by a new director for a few days now. His name is Jorge de San José and he has twenty years of professional experience in Labour Relations in well-known companies.
For the last nine years he has worked as director and deputy director of Human Resources at INECO, the Spanish public engineering and consultancy company of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, specialising in mobility and digitalisation. Previously, for seven years, he was Director of Labour Relations at Sacyr Vallehermoso Group and, for a few months, also at Carrefour.
San José will report to RTVE’s corporate director, Marta Torralvo, and will be in charge of the Labour Relations and Personnel Management divisions, which are subdivided into three and four areas, respectively.
The holding of competitive examinations is the most urgent matter on the table for the new HR director.
San José, who holds a degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, has on the table one of the issues that most worries the leadership of the Corporation: the holding of competitive examinations that have accumulated several delays, challenges and more doubts than certainties. However, staff sources, aligned with the interim presidency, predict that the exams will be held throughout this year, without the unexpected call for General Elections on 27 July disrupting the calendar.
Specifically, the tests for five of the thirty-four occupations are scheduled to be held during the month of July, and the rest, including the informant profile which accounts for 34% of the total offer, will be held from September onwards. This forecast dismantles – at least for the moment – the possibility that the exams are going to be cancelled, as some employees have come to suspect.
As far as this newspaper has been able to learn, RTVE is relying on CEGOS, an international consultancy firm that offers training solutions, skills development, training management and outsourcing of human resources processes, throughout the process of competitive examinations, in which some 30,000 candidates are expected to take the exams.
