Confirel, a company focused on youth and training

A dozen students from the “Entrepreneurship” program led by the Francophone Employability Center of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) visited the Confirel factory in Phnom Penh in early September. The purpose of this visit was to give them a concrete vision of how a company works and its different departments: production, quality control and assurance, research and development, stocks, etc. “The employability center offers short training courses to young people so that they can better understand the resources that contribute to the creation and management of a company, whether in terms of human or technical resources. This type of visit is very useful to help them structure their project,” said Sok Kuong, project manager at AUF. 

Coming from Phnom Penh and provinces, these students came from different cursus, some of which had little to do with the production sectors. Among them, Ton Songleng, a student at the Royal University of Law and Economics. Like many Cambodian visitors to the Confirel factory, he was very surprised by what he saw. “In the production area, everything is impeccably clean. The hygiene is perfect. I had seen this on television in foreign factories. I have just discovered this with my own eyes in a factory in Cambodia and I am impressed,” said the young man.

Sorya, a student in Battambang, appreciated the quality of the “well organized” tour. This is not the case in all the factories we have seen,” she said. “In addition, here we could taste the products from the production lines.”

For Hym Piseth, Human Resources Director of the PPM-Confirel Group, these visits to production facilities by young people are perfectly in line with the Group’s development strategy. “We are working to densify our network of relationships with universities and various public and private training institutions. These visits allow us to showcase the job opportunities available with us. It is also an opportunity to communicate with young people about our commitment to innovation. For us, it is fundamental to encourage the spirit of innovation among young people, which we do through the organization, for students in the agricultural and agri-food sectors, of the Thnot d’Or trophy, which we will be relaunching this year, after a two-year forced pause.”