Who can get involved?

GSK employees

Each year PULSE invites high-performing employees to apply for a PULSE volunteering assignment, empowering them to develop their leadership skills while working for a Partner organisation. Committed employees who believe they can make a sustainable change and have been with the company for three years or more go through a rigorous selection process. Successful PULSE candidates have:

A record of achieving beyond their core role
Demonstrated leadership behaviours
A desire to develop their leadership and management skills
The opportunity to apply their learnings when they return to their jobs

PULSE is a global programme and is open to employees from sites all over the world. Past and current PULSE volunteers have come from sites in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Mexico, Peru, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey , Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom and Venezuela– we hope to expand this list as PULSE grows.

PULSE Volunteer Manu Juneja in India

PULSE Volunteer Manu Juneja worked with AmeriCares in Mumbai, India

What skills do PULSE volunteers use?

Eligible employees can apply many different professional skills while on a PULSE assignment, including:

Communications and Marketing
Business development and change management
Data management and knowledge transfer
Financial management
Human Resources
Information Technology
Logistics and supply chain management
Project management
Research & development [R&D] and clinical health

Alongside their professional skills and experience, volunteers are selected on the basis of whether or not they exhibit the ‘PULSE gene’ – i.e., emotional, cultural and social intelligence, flexible thinking, humility, situational judgement and a thirst to learn, among other key attributes.