Stéphane GAVRILOFF
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At the beginning of the 2000s I was made available by the ANPE to the Afpa of Paris with the idea of ​​contributing to the rapprochement of the two institutions in favor of employment. I am there to serve as a pilot facilitator of the Espace Ressources Emploi, a space devoted to accompanying trainees in training, in learning the techniques of job search.

I will make a first discovery there. We are then charged, Catherine, Isabelle and I to put in place the action called the Thursdays of the Afpa. An action aimed at better informing jobseekers about the training system.

The Afpa faces a major difficulty, the waiting time to enter training. The delays are too long, sometimes last several months and when the training begins a significant number of candidates have already found a job or another training. The training action is now in place but with an insufficient number of trainees, while new people who have recently joined the ANPE, who are potentially interested in training, have not yet been identified.

In a few months, we will set up a meeting that will attract each week, a hundred participants, this action will last several years while in the other 10 training centers the action will not achieve the same result and will be limited Often at the reception of small groups of job seekers or will be extinguished in a few months due to lack of participants.

I understood, but several years later, that the success of our approach was linked to his approach, constructivist. In our presentation, we provided numerous examples of success stories, real examples from our experience, useful and immediately usable information to optimize research, and we offered tools or accompanying services To those who needed it to reach employment and hiring.

We valued the training, especially alternating, as a way to quickly integrate into employment, we had an action of discovery trades providing discovery trades that constituted a sort of bridge between two worlds, separated by a ditch, Ie those who are looking for a job, who are hesitant and who can not find one, and companies looking for candidates.

I realize then that there is no general place of information in Paris or one addresses the questions that concern which bring answers in particular with a speech positive and optimistic but sincere because fed on realistic examples. Finally, in the introduction to the meeting, I repeat the following slogan: "Our information meeting should enable us to provide answers to all your questions."

In Paris there are forums for meetings or a few hundred job seekers can meet dozens of companies, there are local information meetings at the level of, for example, a local mission or an agency Of the ANPE, but the level of information that brings together information on employment, job search techniques, the labor market, vocational guidance and training does not exist. So much so that when we finished our meeting sometimes around 1 pm, after more than three hours without interruption, before 100 people, we then opened the two swinging doors wishing for a good continuation. At that moment, for many seconds, we had noticed several times that nobody got up to go out!

At the same time, my two Afpa colleagues and I were in charge of developing an OPCA funded discovery activity. The sequence of the two actions, Jeudis de l'Afpa (the information meeting) and the Discovery of the Trades program enabled us to accompany 300 jobseekers for a little more than a year towards training or 'employment. We proposed to Afpa's Directorate General that our program, which was multiplied in all the training centers, would have attracted attention, created and supplemented in a few days only training actions in all fields and Particularly in areas where there were recruitment difficulties.

I then left the Afpa to return to the ANPE in Blois, near Tours, my new residence where my spouse was hired. Of course, I continued to promote this perspective, in particular by means of an Internal Validation of my acquired experience, I insisted a little and then I felt that it was unpleasant and I therefore forgot this perspective. 10 years later I take the measure of another perspective, I then contact the continuing education department of the University of Tours which tells me, listening to my experience, that I can consider a full validation of a MASTER 2 I am no longer in a logic of professional progression, since my previous discovery, so I need several years to make up my mind. I begin a validation of the experience acquired during the year 2014-2015 to make known this second discovery. During my validation, in the course of my readings, particularly those concerning authors and researchers at the University of Tours, I will be able to put a name on this practice which stems from experience: the systemic approach to resolution Problems of hiring and professional reorientation.

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Stephane Gavriloff. Décembre 2016.