The Role of Higher education and the development of employability of university students in France
Résumé
Selecting and better recruiting is a big challenge for human resources services in charge of recruitment in firms and other organizations. Traditional forms of coordination and of matching relevant information for better matching exist but do not satisfy the different stakeholders. In an endogenous growth model, and particularly at a regional or infra-regional level with the necessity of clustering and creating a marshallian atmosphere for getting potentials from a proximity economy, quantity and quality of the new entries in the labour market are a critical source of development. So, the quality of the matching process should be considered also as a critical factor.
Public programs have been recently implemented (known as Social experimentation from Young people official authority) in French universities for enhancing the pre-matching phase for students still present in their master degree unit.
This paper proposes to analyze one experiment with 1,600 students in scientific master’s degree (sciences, technologies, biology and medicine) confronted with a new apparatus “Science insert” (State financed development program for better employability of students studying in scientific master’s) that has targeted the outcome of better quality of students’ knowledge about the principles of rules recruitment in the labour market.
This paper underlines the university context, the specific university services, the dedicated human organization and their realizations, and try to test the effects of the Science insert program on their “culture of better matching” and consequently on their behavior when leaving the university nest.
The paper offers a panorama for strengths and weaknesses of the Science insert coaching program.