Vocational Guidance for Job Applicants in France

Coralie Perez and Elsa Personnaz
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Elsa Personnaz: CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

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Abstract: In France, "Pôle Emploi" is the central operator for services aimed at job applicants. It applies career guidance which in practice results in a review on employability and making a selection among the unemployed for an appropriate plan of action. Professionals lose out in terms of specialisation; they intervene within this framework to coach the unemployed and mobilise rather vague skills. Moreover, this de-specialisation is coupled up with a sort of standardisation and bureaucratic multi-tasking of job functions and positions. Consultants find themselves at the heart of a contradiction inherent to job guidance such as it is practised, which consists in associating thinking about vocational plans with a quick return to employment.

Keywords: activation; guidance; job applicants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in S. Kraatz et B.-J. Ertelt (dir.). Professionalisation of Career Guidance in Europe, Dvgt Verlag, pp.317-335, 2011

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