Blog of Marie-Claire Carrere-Gee

Last Saturday, the Council of district proceeded to the election of a new mayor.

In accordance with the commitments which I had undertaken in front of the voters here less than one year by leading the list of union of the right-hand side and the center, I naturally presented my candidature at the time of this poll. It was indeed legitimate and necessary that the municipal opposition is present at the time of this important moment for our district.

A strong, welded, constructive and dynamic opposition, representing the interests and the aspirations of the inhabitants of 14th. An opposition which incarnates a hope for the future.

Pierre Castagnou, with the memory of which we paid homage, symbolized this so particular character of the municipal election. Its personal equation, its engagement with the service of the inhabitants of 14th, his simple and cordial contact had a decisive role in the results of the last legislative and municipal elections. Pierre Castagnou had the popular legitimacy of those which conduct the campaigns and go on the ground to the meeting of the inhabitants.

With designation, by the authorities of the PS, of Pascal Cherki like future mayor of 14th, exchange in our district gives it. With a personal legitimacy, acquired at the price of a keen work and long time, a choice purely in favour succeeds indeed, a purely internal choice with the PS, well far from the daily newspaper of our district.

The designation of Pascal Cherki, a man with the left of the left of the socialist party, reflects perhaps well the new ones and fragile balances within a PS torn by the Congress of Rheims. But to in no case the taking into account of the aspirations of the inhabitants of 14th.

(article published in the daily newspaper the Platform, on February 26, 2009)

For much of young people, the difficulties of professional insertion find their origin in a missed orientation. An orientation which sufficiently did not take account of their aspirations, their competences and concrete professional outlets of the followed studies.

It is to fight against this immense waste human, social and economic that the Council of Orientation for the Employment, which gathers managements and labor and, beyond, all the actors of the job market, decided to seize the question of the school and professional orientation. And to make specific proposals to finish some with an orientation too often undergone, chopper, by the failure. An orientation which rather worsens the social inequalities and geographical than it does not compensate them. An orientation which can carry out in the wall by the absence of outlets.

Between the illusion of a perfect adequacy of the system of formation with the structure of employment, and the current dead end where too many young people are locked up, it is possible to build a service who opens prospects with all the young people, and not only with those which succeed at the school or which live in a home environment or geographical favorable. Prospects for studies or training; professional prospects, by taking care that the courses proposed lead truly to an employment; prospects which can finally respect the aspirations of each one.

For that, the State must give itself the means of returning the offer of more transparent formation for all. It appears essential to us that each pupil receives, before engaging in a die, accurate informations and reliable on becoming to it former students. How much have an long-term employment? How much galèrent by connecting precarious employment? How much are with unemployment? And that to be able to choose in all full knowledge of the facts. In addition, the offer of formation must be made more readable for the students and the companies which recruit: it is necessary to translate to the maximum the diplomas into terms of competences, and to gather under the same label of the formations to which the contents are very close.

The offer of formation must as be made more reactive as today with the evolutions of employment. We propose the installation of an alarm procedure for all the formations whose rates of success and rates of professional insertion of the graduates are not satisfactory. And that so that the State and the areas draw some, if necessary, all consequences to constantly improve the offer of formation and to make so that it remains relevant. As the choices as regards initial training tend to register the young people in a quasi irreversible way in a given trajectory, we want to also arrange more footbridges between the dies of formation and to allow more return tickets between formation and employment.


Then, it is necessary to give oneself the means of making the surer choices more open and courses. More opened choices, while registering with the timetable of the pupils, the Fifth to Final, the one day equivalent per quarter of discovered activities, trades and formations. By also instituting a help with mobility, by building more boarding schools and by developing the offer of transport, to finish some with these situations as absurd as unjust where the young people resulting from modest milieus see their choices constrained by an offer of local formation which necessarily does not correspond to their aspirations, of a solution of transport and an accessible lodging. To make safe the choices of orientation of the young people, the high-school pupils who wish it must see themselves proposing anonymous aptitude tests to evaluate their chances of success in a die. And each student must be able to profit, in first year of licence, of a module of construction of the personal project and professional (discovery of an economic sector, of a trade, methodology of drafting of CV and covering letters, preparation with the talks of recruiting). Lastly, for each last year of course, it will be necessary to make compulsory an in-company training, in an administration or an association, and to develop modules of teaching in alternation.

In its proposals, the Council of Orientation for Employment also wanted to reaffirm that it is difficult to make orientation without careers advisers. The psychological careers advisers are approximately 3500, for more than 5 million pupils in the second degree, that is to say a ratio of approximately 1500 pupils per professional. It is insufficient, it is necessary to start again recruitment. And to diversify the pallet of competences, by extending it to other profiles that of psychologist, with for example of the economists, the pedagogues or the professionals having experience of the company. And because, if you forgive this bad pun, it is currently the orientation system itself which is disorientated, we propose that structures of coordination gather, at the regional level, the many actors of the orientation who act today too often within a dispersed framework. We also wish to support the emergence of places of reception of the general public clearly identified by a national label, gathering these various actors of the orientation and insertion, on the model of the cities of the trades. We wish finally that is installation a telephone platform of information and orientation, public and free.

None of these proposals is with it only revolutionary and yet, if all are implemented, it will be a revolution: a revolution in the service rendered to the young people and to their families, a revolution in the manner of apprehending the bonds between education system and work world, a revolution, in the long term, for the employment of the young people in our country.


Marie-Claire CARRERE-GEE
President of the Council of Orientation for Employment


The Council of Orientation for Employment is an authority independent of social dialogue and expertise which gathers all the actors of the job market: all representative trade-union confederations, employers, representatives of all the administrations and public services in charge of employment as well as territorial collectivities, economists, DRH, and experts.