Employee Development

Helping you achieve your professional potential

At Bostik, we recognize that opportunities for professional development are incredibly important when choosing a career. That’s why we’ve made technical and business training a core offering to all our employees and prospective recruits.

Demonstrating our commitment to providing continuous professional development, we offer company-paid external educational programs and internal training opportunities. 

As well as job-specific training, we provide employee development programs on a local, regional and global level. 

Local training  

Bostik local training programs are developed by our Country HR teams to meet local needs and priorities. 

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Regional training 

Our regional training covers a broad range of programs, including an Introduction to Bostik R&D, Bostik Operational Excellence, Project Management and Safety Leadership. 

Bostik University

For selected participants, we've developed a number of internal education initiatives under the umbrella of the Bostik University. 

Attendees from across our global operations participate in Bostik University events, which serve to foster closer bonds between teams from different regions.

Our regular Bostik University sessions reinforce employee skills in a number of areas, bringing significant benefits to Bostik as a business and to the individuals involved. 

New programs have been added to the Bostik University every year since its inception. Our current sessions include:

• Leading People the Bostik way - aimed at developing the leadership skills of managers in supervisory roles.

• Communications Management - designed to prepare professionals in internal or external communications roles for a variety of situations including public speaking, effective written communication and media interviews.

• Marketing Leadership - designed to increase Bostik’s global marketing capabilities and develop a common understanding of our global tools to improve our value proposition across markets.

• Business Management – aimed at middle and senior managers to provide a variety of educational sessions covering topics including finance, operational excellence and leadership skills.​

• R&D Leadership - providing all new and potential R&D leaders with knowledge and skills in key people and process management topics.