What Solutions Competences does

Solutions Compétences is a France-based non-profit Groupement Local d'Employeurs (GLE) headquartered in Châtellerault, operating across the Vienne and Charente-Maritime departments of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Founded on April 27, 1998 by agro-food companies seeking workforce flexibility, the organization acts as a shared legal employer: it recruits employees under CDI or CDD contracts and assigns them to member enterprises on a full-time or shared-time (temps partagé) basis. The firm's product portfolio spans three core lines — Mise à Disposition (shared employment), Travail Temporaire (temporary staffing via a 2024 ETT sub-entity), and Prestation de Recrutement (end-to-end recruitment distributed across 16+ jobboards) — augmented by premium modules (Recrutement Premium and Recrutement par Profilage, using AI-assisted psychometric testing on DISC, MBTI, BIG FIVE, RIASEC plus a 360° contextual analysis), an advanced Modélisation Collective service for team composition, and strategic initiatives Compétences+ (territorial skills anticipation) and Explor' (inter-company innovation cell on work engagement).

The business model is multi-stream: enterprises pay a €100 HT annual membership subscription to join the collective, after which Solutions Compétences bills member companies on a managed-services basis for shared and temporary staff (markup on payroll costs) and on a professional-services basis for permanent recruitment assignments. Technology infrastructure consists of an Applicant Tracking System distributing jobs across 16+ jobboards, psychometric testing platforms, and candidate-portal tooling. The membership-based GLE legal structure means the entity itself is governed by a board of directors drawn from member-company executives and HR directors (ALSTOM, ZEISS, MARELLI, Safran Ceramic Coating Center, Carambar&Co, Stivent Industrie, Futuramat, GAPE & CEMES, CRITT).

Operations are delivered through three physical agencies (Châtellerault HQ, La Rochelle, Poitiers) addressing both SMEs and large industrial groups in agro-food, automotive, aerospace, rail, electronics, plastics, metallurgy, logistics, chemistry, and medical verticals. Scale signals include 15,000+ lifetime recruitments since 1998, ~30% annual conversion of shared-time employees into permanent contracts at member companies, and a headcount band of 251-500 (which primarily represents legally employed mise à disposition staff).

Name

Solutions Competences

Legal name

SOLUTIONS COMPÉTENCES

Website

https://solutions-competences.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Solutions Compétences is a non-profit Groupement Local d'Employeurs (GLE) in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, that acts as a shared legal employer providing mise à disposition, temporary staffing, recruitment, and psychometric-profiling services to SMEs and large industrial member companies across the Vienne and Charente-Maritime departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Staffing and Recruitment Services

NAICS

Temporary Help Services (561320), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Help Supply Services (7363)

akta.pro primary industry

Contractor Management Systems (CMS) & Workforce Management (BPACAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Staffing (BPACADAG), Offshore Development Center (ODC) / Dedicated Team Services (BPAEAMAL)

Keywords

• HR staffing services
• Recruitment services
• Shared employment
• Temporary staffing
• Employer group

Headquarters

HQ city

Châtellerault

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Annual membership dues: Enterprises pay an annual membership fee of 100€ HT to become members (adherents) of SOLUTIONS Compétences, gaining access to HR advice, meeting rooms, individual offices, and connection to the collective of local businesses.
2. Mise à disposition (shared employment / temps partagé): SOLUTIONS Compétences recruits employees (CDI or CDD) and assigns them to member companies either full-time or part-time (temps partagé), managing payroll, administrative tasks, and follow-up. Revenue derives from the markup on employee costs billed to member companies.
3. Temporary work / interim staffing (ETT): Temporary staffing services provided through the SOLUTIONS Compétences Travail Temporaire entity, placing interim workers with member companies for short-term needs, replacements, or activity peaks.
4. Recruitment services: Recruitment services including job posting across 16+ jobboards, candidate sourcing, qualification, and matching. Includes 'Prestation recrutement' and 'Recrutement premium' (profiling) offerings. After-sales support provides replacement at no additional cost if the trial period fails.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Solutions Compétences is a Groupement Local d'Employeurs (Local Employer Group) operating as a multi-service HR platform that recruits employees under CDI/CDD contracts and assigns them to member companies on a shared-time or full-time basis. It also provides temporary staffing (via Solutions Compétences Travail Temporaire), end-to-end recruitment services across 16+ jobboards, AI-enhanced psychometric profiling for hiring, collective team modeling, and prospective workforce planning initiatives for industrial, logistics, and tertiary enterprises in the Vienne and Charente-Maritime departments of France.

Product overview

Solutions Compétences operates as a multi-service HR platform combining a Groupement Local d'Employeurs (GLE) structure with temporary staffing services and advanced recruitment solutions. The core offerings include Mise à Disposition (shared-time staffing), Travail Temporaire (temporary work), and Prestation de Recrutement (recruitment services). Advanced modules include Recrutement par Profilage and Recrutement Premium (AI-enhanced profiling and 360° analysis), while La Modélisation Collective enables team composition optimization. Strategic initiatives Compétences + (prospective skills planning) and Explor' (collective innovation) round out the portfolio, serving member companies across industry, logistics, and tertiary sectors in the Vienne and Charente-Maritime territories.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• La Mise à Disposition
• Le Travail Temporaire (Solutions Compétences Travail Temporaire)
• La Prestation de Recrutement
• Recrutement par Profilage
• Recrutement Premium Comprehensive recruitment acceleration combining AI psychometric profiling, behavioral matching, relational compatibility analysis, and 6-month onboarding follow-up to ensure durable placements and reduce trial-period failures.
• La Modélisation Collective Team composition optimization service using psychometric analysis to model ideal team structures, assess relational compatibility between members and managers, and identify collective strengths and development areas.
• Compétences + Prospective workforce planning initiative establishing 3-5 year HR forecasts based on environmental constraints and strategic business choices, including skills inventory, tension-sector analysis, and territorial employment mapping across Châtellerault, La Rochelle, and Poitiers.
• Explor' Inter-company collective innovation cell focused on work engagement and human factors, combining ergonomics, work psychology, psychometrics, organizational sociology, and UX research to develop common innovations addressing workplace challenges.
• Adherent Membership Annual membership subscription (100€ HT/year) granting enterprises access to HR advisory services, meeting facilities, the collective employer network, and the full range of Solutions Compétences services.

Quantifiable outcome

• 30% of placed employees are recruited in permanent CDI contracts by member companies each year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DETTS (Direction du Travail, du Temps de Travail et de la Négociation Sociale)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021DETTS is a public authority partner involved in SOLUTIONS Compétences' innovation projects including Explor' and Recrutement Premium, providing institutional support and alignment with national employment policies.
• UIMM (Union des Industries et Métiers de la Métallurgie)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013SOLUTIONS Compétences partnered with UIMM to create the GEIQ Industrie PCH (Groupement d'Employeurs pour l'Insertion et la Qualification) in 2013, focusing on insertion through qualification in the Poitou-Charentes industrial sector.
• Grand ChâtelleraultcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgglomeration community that partners with SOLUTIONS Compétences on collective HR innovation projects including Compétences+ and Explor', providing territorial governance support and funding for skills anticipation initiatives.
• Grand PoitierscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgglomeration community that partnered with SOLUTIONS Compétences for the Compétences+ project on the Poitiers basin, supporting skills forecasting and territorial economic development.
• OCAPIATminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOCAPIAT, the OPCO (Operator of Competencies) for food industries, agriculture, and hospitality, is a financial and training partner for SOLUTIONS Compétences' Recrutement Premium project, supporting skills development and training aspects of the initiative.
• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrance Travail is a key local employment partner in SOLUTIONS Compétences' ecosystem, collaborating on candidate sourcing, job seeker placement, and territorial employment initiatives across the Vienne and Charente-Maritime regions.
• Mission LocaleminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMission Locale supports young people in their professional integration and works with SOLUTIONS Compétences on local employment initiatives, helping to connect young job seekers with opportunities at member companies.
• STIVENT IndustriecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTIVENT Industrie is one of the seven companies that participated in the Explor' collective innovation project, contributing to the inter-company working group on employee engagement.
• FUTURAMATcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFUTURAMAT participated in the Explor' inter-company innovation project and its Managing Director Sandra Martin serves as an administrator of SOLUTIONS Compétences.
• GAPE & CEMESminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGAPE & CEMES participated in the Explor' innovation project alongside six other companies, working on the collective theme of employee engagement in the workplace.
• Regional and departmental institutions (Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Départements, Agglomérations)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSOLUTIONS Compétences collaborates with regional and departmental public institutions for funding, territorial development, and skills anticipation projects such as Compétences+ across multiple employment basins.
• Training institutions and consulatesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSOLUTIONS Compétences works with a network of training organizations and consular bodies (chambers of commerce and industry) to support skills development, professional integration, and continuing education for placed employees.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves12 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• GEIQ national network: The national GEIQ federation coordinates French groupements d'employeurs for insertion and qualification, a structure mirrored by Solutions Compétences' own GEIQ Industrie PCH (founded 2013). GEIQ is not a direct commercial competitor but a structural peer and partnership channel for insertion-based staffing programs.
• Fédération Française des Groupements d'Employeurs (FFGE): FFGE is the national federation of French employers' groups (groupements d'employeurs), the same legal structure as Solutions Compétences. It is not a competitor but a closely related ecosystem organization — peer in structure, comparable in mission, and a potential scaling channel for replicating the GLE model across French regions.

Broad incumbents

• Manpower France: Manpower France is part of the global ManpowerGroup and offers temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, and workforce solutions across all French regions. It directly competes with Solutions Compétences on temporary work (ETT) and Prestation de Recrutement, but operates at vastly greater scale and with a much broader geographic and sector footprint.
• Randstad France: Randstad France is the French subsidiary of Randstad, providing temporary staffing, recruitment, and HR solutions across industrial, automotive, and other sectors. Comparable to Solutions Compétences in serving industrial and SME clients in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and elsewhere, but operates as part of a large international group with proprietary digital platforms.
• Adecco France: Adecco France is the French arm of Adecco Group and provides temporary staffing, permanent placement, and HR outsourcing solutions for industrial, logistics, and tertiary clients. It is a broad incumbent that offers overlapping capabilities to Solutions Compétences' member companies, particularly on interim (ETT) and large-volume industrial recruitment, though with a much larger national network.

Direct peers

• Synergie: Synergie is a French staffing group specializing in temporary work, permanent recruitment, and HR services for industrial, logistics, and tertiary clients. It operates as a direct peer to Solutions Compétences' Travail Temporaire and Prestation de Recrutement offerings, with a comparable French regional-branch model.
• Crit Intérim: Crit is a French-listed staffing group with strong positions in industrial and technical temporary work. Crit is the closest direct competitor to Solutions Compétences in the French industrial interim market and a meaningful presence for member companies such as ALSTOM and Safran, competing head-to-head on temporary staffing and permanent recruitment.
• Hays France: Hays France is the French arm of Hays plc, providing professional recruitment and workforce solutions across technical, industrial, and construction specialisms. Hays is a direct peer to Solutions Compétences' Prestation de Recrutement and Recrutement Premium offerings for skilled industrial and technical roles, particularly for member clients like Safran and ALSTOM.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles21 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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