With the crisis the careers services were even more the wind

"A magic wand." For Catherine Marionneau, Advisor to the careers of Audencia service, so participants often consider the MBA. What they expect A better job, attractive and better paid, a relationship with business, a network implementation... As many wishes as the MBA career services will do everything to satisfy.

But that future graduates did not necessarily imagine, is that these same services will also encourage them to get back into question. To achieve this, they will not hesitate "to get out of their comfort zone", as described in Jacques Tournut, Director of the MBA and masters in the ESC Toulouse. Objective: participants "to build a professional project the most realistic possible", to "gain credibility before the employer", said Catherine Marionneau. For Jacques Tournut, this development also corresponds to the new expectations of recruiters. "Today, knowledge is easily accessible, this is no longer a problem, analysis.". What employers are looking for, it is a personality, someone who will know to move in the company and facilitate the work of the teams.

To push these "high potential" for thirty or forty years to do a little soul-searching, to each method. Since 2005, Audencia adapted to their intention to an approach which had been developed for junior students. "A kind of minibilan of skills", summarizes Catherine Marionneau, which, through group workshops and individual interviews, they think about their desires, their successes and their failures. To do this, a consultant external formed 3 or 4 employees in the career service, which also employs professional coaches.

Coaching and simulations

Meanwhile, Jacques Tournut developed very strongly on the logic of group, team work and the confrontation of cultures. "We have a coach by programme, which deals with recruitment, handles the"team building"at the beginning of the year and then sees the participants individually to make them work on their project, he notes.". Participants may have the degree; "but if at the end of their journey, they are not of humanity, humility, empathy, listening, if they do not use their intuition to detect a problem in their team, it is missed," said Sarah Kartalia, Member of the team of coaches. With the crisis, the careers services were even more the wind. Logic: students who have invested 25,000 to more than 50,000 euros in their training want results. At CET, the of participants, both psychological support for the career, is now growing: the part "soft", dedicated to the reflection on the professional project, to the "organisational behaviour", working on leadership, represents about one third of the program.

Restore morale

At Insead, the careers service is being four to restore morale to its troops as soon as the demise of Lehman Brothers, in the fall of 2008. He, for example, wrote to the graduates of the promotions output in 2001 and 2002, the last to have suffered a crisis of employment, asking them to tell their journey. "We assembled 250 contributions we have received in a 35-page guide," explains Sandra Schwarzer, Director of the service. A way to understand that "it adds more failures than successes", said Daniel Fulda, professional coach and President of the Alumni of the school. Evidence of its importance, the service saw its membership increase by a third in two years, four positions having been created in direct connection with the crisis. Strong now for 25 people, he organizes a multitude of workshops, simulations of interviews, meetings with professionals... And it relies on a team of 11 professional coaches to support its promotions of nearly a thousand of students - by adding the two MBA from the school. "For a young person between at Insead in MBA, the objectives of power, recognition and money are very strong, observed Daniel Fulda. Nevertheless, we will show them the dangers of involvement too exclusively focused on these objectives. "Less"magic", but more"introspective", MBA