An international oil and gas company and world-class chemical producer, Total operates in 130 countries. With more than 500 occupations, we offer real opportunities for applicants from all national and educational backgrounds, both beginners and experienced professionals, in a broad array of specialties:

• Technical, including geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, oil and gas installations, drilling and well operations, project management, process engineering, maintenance, electrical engineering and instrumentation.
• R&D and QHSE.
• Sales, marketing and related functions.
• Corporate functions such as IT, supply chain and logistics, legal affairs, finance and procurement.

Like the rest of our human resources policies, our approach to compensation aims both to keep us competitive, by paying median wages in a specific market, and to ensure fairness internally. With a continued focus on developing talent, our expanded goal now is to do more to reward personal performance, by awarding merit raises, bonuses and other incentives.

Although all Total companies share these basic principles, they are adapted to local factors, such as legislation, the economic environment and the job market. We are also committed to giving employees a financial stake in our performance. When company-wide financial performance targets are met, we grant performance shares to a large number of our employees, as allowed under French legislation since 2004.

In 2008, 9,400 employees of all occupational categories received stock options and restricted shares. Here too, in order to ensure that the system is fair, first-time grantees account for about 45% of the beneficiaries. When combined with previous stock option plans, nearly 20,000 employees in over 120 countries have benefited.

We want to provide all our employees with equivalent benefits, taking into account the local environment. In particular, we have developed incentives for employee savings, including providing matching contributions.

We also regularly carry out employee-only share issues, most recently in March 2008. More than 32,000 people working in 555 companies in 106 countries purchased €216 million worth of shares. The process was opened up to ten new countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and even China, where it was the first employee-only share issue ever.

Today, three-quarters of our employees worldwide have quality insurance coverage with death benefits.

Total is a leading multinational energy company with 96,950 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world (1).

(1) Based on market capitalization (in dollars) as of December 31, 2008

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92078 Paris La Défense Cedex