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Workforce Initiatives
Community Involvement
Agilent's investment in our communities is another way in which we advocate diversity and inclusion. Each year Agilent Technologies, through its businesses, employees and foundation, dedicates thousands of hours and donates millions of dollars to organizations that enrich our communities intellectually and socially. Agilent employees collaborate with schools and universities, making a difference by offering unique skills, expertise and time.
Here are several examples of Agilent's involvement in diverse local communities around the globe:
Agilent sponsors Electronics for the Community (Singapore)
Recognizing the need to nurture future engineers to solve the future problems in our society, Agilent partnered with National University of Singapore (NUS), South West Community Development Council (CDC) and five schools (River Valley High, Hwa Chong Junior College, Victoria Junior College, Cedar Girls Secondary School and Jurong West Secondary School) in a community outreach program, Electronics for the Community. In this program, the students designed assistive aids for elderly people and some of the more useful aids will be prototyped and given to senior citizens in the area.
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day
Santa Rosa, Calif.
More than 70 young women from several community organizations as well as daughters of Agilent employees participated in the 2010 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event at the Santa Rosa site. Coordinated by the Women's Leadership Development employee network group, this year's IGED featured an "egg drop" contest with teams designing and building devices to prevent an egg from breaking in a 20-foot fall. During a panel session, the girls also got to hear engineers discuss their careers.
Young Enterprise Program (Malaysia)
Agilent has been a firm supporter of the Young Enterprise program since it was introduced by the American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in 1989. The program was created to nurture future business leaders, focusing on hands-on learning concepts where students are given the opportunity to run real businesses and manage the full life cycle of a business enterprise. The Young Enterprise Program works to build a bridge between the school and the world of work through which young people can acquire the knowledge, skills and culture of the workplace. Agilent advisors visit the school regularly and with the assistance of teacher advisors, act as consultants to the students. Student participants, called
"Achievers," learn about the importance of teamwork and how to turn innovative ideas into profits. In 2010, some of the business products the students developed included decorative doorknob hangers, bookmarks, key chains, bracelets and personalized notepads.
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