Helping students develop their career project

• To provide companies with managers properly trained to meet their needs and who are multilingual, multicultural, highly motivated and quickly operational, the Recruitment Service brings in company managers or graduates to coach students, taking part in simulated interviews, leading case studies, etc.
• To make it easier for students to fit into the professional world, the Recruitment Service organises events that bring students into contact with the business world.

With our Recruitment Service

• Company Speed Dating, three times a year, some fifteen companies introduce themselves, meeting our students informally.
• On-line DoYouBuzz CV-library
• Audit Day: Auditors present students with the full range of accounting, audit and finance specialties.
• Organising job interviews on-site: After distributing your available positions, on a customised basis, to our students and after companies have selected candidates.

With our Meetings Service

• The Alsace Tech Entreprises forum: Co-hosted with nine leading engineering schools, this forum brings together 4,000 students every year, in November.
• The Forum de l'Economie Alsacienne (Alsace Economy Forum): Every year, in April, over 300 company principles throughout the region meet to discuss a news theme.
• Business evenings: Graduates of the EM Strasbourg Business School Grande Ecole Masters program present their careers to students. Four sectors are represented: Marketing-Sales / Finance-Accounting / Organisation, consulting, entrepreneurship / Logistics.

Work placements are an integral part of the syllabus. Students must complete three work placements during their degree course, one of which must take place outside of France or form a part of an international assignment.

> stage "First experience" work placement (first year): Discover how a company actually works and its management methods. The student participates in the activities of a specific department to gain first-hand experience of a corporate function (accounting, sales, logistics, etc.).
> "Specialisation" work placement (second year): Complement the technical knowledge acquired in the student’s chosen specialty. Work placement involving responsibilities defined by an assignment with targets to be achieved.
> "Vocational integration" work placement (end of the curriculum): Gain initial work experience. A well-defined junior management assignment is entrusted to the student.
> Optional long-term "Company gap year": With a view to facilitating the vocational integration of students and improving their training, students can take a gap year after completing one year’s studies at EM Strasbourg Business School and that can be followed by one year hands on at a company. This year can fit between the second and third years in the Grande Ecole syllabus or after the end of the third year.

> Masters in Financial and operational auditing
> Masters in Accounting Internal Control Audit
> Masters in Financial Control
> Masters in MAE Business Administration
> Masters in SME Entrepreneurship
> Masters in Human Resources

> University Degree in Islamic Finance
> Inter-University Degree in Innovative Project Engineering

Students taking these courses must complete two to six months of work placement depending on the diploma. For more information on work placement for University Masters degrees and University Degrees, please download the work placement brochure (fr).

For the following vocational training courses, a non-salaried trainee may be hired to carry out their work placement (minimum of 600 hours) at the same time as their course days (2.5 days every two weeks):

> Masters in Business Engineering
> Masters in Marketing and Market Focus
> Masters in Event Marketing and Management
> University Degree in Logistics Systems Management

Apprenticeship lets companies pre-recruit their future managers, play an active role in their training and benefit from knowledge acquired from the University while helping to reinforce the Business School-Company bond, accomplishing its mission in training young people and obtaining financial support.
This 15 month sandwich training course targets EM Strasbourg Business School second year students who wish to rapidly gain some good professional experience and be financially independent. This concept is equally suited to large companies and SMEs.

Sandwich training courses are available in the following vocational Masters courses (M2) exclusively for students with an M1 or four year post secondary education qualification:

> Master professionnel Marketing and Market Focus (fr)
> Master professionnel Event Marketing and Management (fr)
> Master professionnel Business Engineering (fr)
> Master professionnel SME Entrepreneurship (fr)
> Master professionnel Human Resources (fr)
> Master professionnel International Business Administration (fr)
> Master professionnel Corporate Account Management (fr)

> Vocational Degree in DISTECH Retail and Distribution (fr)

EM Strasbourg Business School supports students throughout their syllabus, from the start of the first year to joining a company. This coaching comes with targeted and diverse actions:

One coach, one student

The One coach, One student project brings together a graduate with a first year student. The graduate supports the student throughout their syllabus and they are present to help them build their career project and orient them in their choices: business specialisation, destination when heading abroad, looking for work placements, making contacts, etc.

Business presentation

• Testimonial evenings where graduates present their careers
• Forum Alsace Tech Entreprises (an annual forum: work placements/jobs)
• Corporate conferences
• Partnership with APEC: Business factsheets from the APEC website

Personalised support for the development of the career project

• Advice on personal development
• Helping with the development of the career project
• Writing CVs and cover letters in French and in other languages
• Tip sheets on work placement outside of France (in 11 countries)
• Coaching by graduates, supporting third year students starting out on a professional career.

Assistance in the search for work experience and jobs

• A major database of work placement offers on the EM Strasbourg Business School intranet
• A methodology for finding work placements: The Guide to Work Placements
• A directory of links comprising numerous websites offering work placements and jobs
• Closeness from companies belonging to the E.M.Strasbourg Partenaires partnership group

Presence of an Apprenticeship structure

• Personalised follow-up
• A database of sandwich training position offers
• Support from the E.M.Strasbourg Partenaires partnership