Welcome to chapter 7, “Career integration”.

The “Professional integration” chapter offers modules designed to help you discover strategies and techniques that can help you in your professional integration process. Knowing how to write an attractive CV, a cover letter that highlights your academic background and work experience, or being able to identify your skills in order to define your professional project are basic skills that you need to know and master.

In this chapter, you will first discover the fundamentals of a successful job application, to better align your experience with your professional aspirations. Writing a relevant CV or cover letter can attract the attention of a potential recruiter interested in your profile.

In a second step, you can deepen your knowledge of the job market and build an effective strategy for professional integration, considering the specificities of your professional sector, as well as certain aspects of the open or hidden market.

General objective of the chapter:

• Perfecting your job application for a successful integration into the job market

• Writing an attractive CV
• Writing a persuasive cover letter
• Managing your e-reputation
• Preparing for a recruitment interview
• A successful recruitment interview
• Defining a realistic career plan
• Identifying your core competencies
• Exploring the job market
• Measuring a business sector and its open market
• Analysing the hidden market
• Implementing an effective internship or job search strategy
• The advantages of a study training program
• Understanding the main organizational configurations
• Creating your presentation portfolio
• Successful professional integration
• Defining the different types and nature of employment contracts
• Understanding the general clauses of your employment contract
• Understanding specific and illegal clauses in your employment contract
• Differentiations between types of professional organization

Part A: The fundamentals of applying

➥ Module 1: Writing an attractive CV
➥ Module 2: The cover letter
➥ Module 3: Managing your e-reputation
➥ Module 4: Preparing for a recruitment interview
➥ Module 5: Successful recruitment interviews
➥ Module 6: Work-study training at the University of Poitiers

Part B: Perfecting your internship or job application

➥ Module 7: Defining your career plan
➥ Module 8: Identifying key skills
➥ Module 9: Understanding the organization of the labor market
➥ Module 10: Exploring a business sector and its open market
➥ Module 11: Analyzing the hidden market
➥ Module 12: Adopting an efficient strategy for professional integration
➥ Module 13: Analyzing an insertion survey

Part C: Company organizational structures

➥ Module 14: Organizational configuration principles
➥ Module 15: Creating a presentation portfolio
➥ Module 16: Successful professional integration
➥ Module 17: Types and nature of professional contracts
➥ Module 18: Understanding the general clauses of your employment contract
➥ Module 19: Understanding specific and illegal clauses in your employment contract
➥ Module 20: Different types of professional organization