From stadium to employment is a France Travail system – formerly Pôle Emploi – deployed at national level 5 years ago, and for 3 years in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. This Tuesday, it was on the floors of the Palais Omnisports and around badminton that this day took place aimed at breaking the codes of traditional recruitment.
A day organized by the Déodatienne agency of France Travail, in partnership with the Badminton Federation of the Grand Est, the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges club, the Mission Locale, the Second Chance School and Cap Emploi.
In the morning, around a hundred job seekers, previously prepared for interviews, and employers from 14 companies in the sector gathered around badminton nets. Anonymously, without knowing who is the applicant and who is the employer. And with a strict informality. The idea of this sports morning was as much to put job seekers at ease as to allow employers to identify soft skills.
After a common midday meal, everyone’s identity was revealed at around 1 p.m. What followed was a deliberately unstructured job dating, as it was spread throughout the Palais Omnisports Joseph-Claudel. As Yoann César, team manager for France Travail, points out, “the rate of return to employment for applicants who participate in this day is, over 6 months, around 50% in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. On the scale of the Grand Est, it is around 60%. »
The effectiveness of the formula combining sport and job dating seems to be bearing fruit. From the stadium to employment will return to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges next year, in the same form but with a different sport.
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