SEVERINE DOUARD
Director of Career, Trainings & Business Services
CAREER, TRAININGS & BUSINESS SERVICES DEPARTMENT
2022 witnessed the creation of the Career, Trainings & Business Services Department, whose activity was marked by defining of common objectives, developing the training and service offer, as well as collective work.
240
The number of apprenticeship students that will be welcomed on Audencia’s new campus in Paris, in 2023.
How would you assess 2022?
The Career, Trainings & Enterprise Services Division was created in April 2022. Indeed, recent months have witnessed reorganisation leading to the convergence of teams within the Career, Trainings & Enterprise Services Division. In the end, the CTESD teams have been drawn together from 5 former departments and divisions.
Consequently, in 2022, it has been very important to support the teams and their managers with handling these changes, getting to know each other and setting a common course. The colleagues in the CTESD have swung into action, made the efforts to discover each team’s activities and maintained their engagement to successfully continue their day-to-day work in such a context.
I would particularly like to thank them for this as it is a real strength for the upcoming challenges that await us in the coming months.
What is your vision for 2023?
Within the scope of its missions, the CTBSD works for the benefit of learners (whether students, professionals or apprentices) and businesses.
We provide a variety of services: supporting each student, apprentice (on all programmes) and each graduate from Audencia in making their career objectives a success in France and abroad; developing relations with businesses in France and abroad in order to increase professional opportunities on the international scene but also domestically for our learners (through internships, apprenticeships and jobs); providing working professionals with the opportunity to develop their skills throughout their career; proposing to companies to become partners of the school and benefit from the most comprehensive offer possible, integrating the resources and potential of Audencia.
2023 must enable us to consolidate our organisation, concretise and affirm our missions and services in partnership with our stakeholders, companies and learners/graduates, as well as measuring their satisfaction with regard to our services.
What are your goals for the completion of the strategic plan, within the scope of the ECOS plan?
Via ECOS 2025, our strategic plan, Audencia is especially ambitious and wishes to reach new levels in its development for a stronger impact.
The mobilisation of the CTBS Department is especially strong with regard to making it possible to collectively reach all the objectives set, in France as well as abroad: development of apprenticeships to promote social diversity and different paths of study, development of our career support services for our learners / Alumni / employees, development of new ongoing education training offers for managers and executive directors, including skills hybridisation and teaching method hybridisation, as well as development of relations with domestic and international businesses concerning recruitment, training of employees and their involvement in the school’s life.
What are your CSR commitments?
CSR is a priority for all those to whom we reach out: learners, students, employees and, naturally, businesses. This is why CSR is embodied in all the actions of our division on a daily basis. Indeed, we contribute to social openness and inclusion through our apprenticeship programmes and we support the development of knowledge about ecological and societal transition via our offers proposed by the Gaïa school for employees and apprentices.
Our wish is also to support students with their professional skills, but also and above all, their behavioural and societal skills. Our job is to train them in order to have an impact on society in the present and the future.
HÉLÈNE FERCHAUD
Head of the Business Unit Executive Education
AGNÈS BOISSIERE
Head of the Career & Corporate relations center
Doing everything possible to provide adequate solutions to the needs of companies
“As part of our activities, we encourage our teams to create relationships. Indeed, they have a strong relational aspect in their daily work with our corporate customers and partners. Interdepartmental networking is therefore a real added value.
We capitalise on the know-how of our teams and on companies already convinced by Audencia. The Career & Corporate relations center’s offer is integrated into our portfolio of open programmes, the training courses in our catalogue. We are gradually offering services to companies. This is part of our 2023 development plan. Each team has its own strengths and we are combining them to provide solutions to companies’ needs. In parallel, in order to strengthen the team, with the support of Séverine, we organise events to punctuate the activity of collective work and moments of sharing. In January, we worked on our customer orientation. This is the beginning of a collaboration that we are supporting to go further together.”
