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A society of knowledge fuel its vitality and its development

In the end of 2008, each can feel to the way that we live in a time hinge. Former equilibria are full reconfiguration, the global financial crisis and its consequences are accelerating. In the next ten years, our country, as the world around him, there will be profound transformations.

In an increasingly competitive global economy, we need "knowledge society". A society of knowledge fuel its vitality and its development. A society in which human represents the first capital for companies. A society in which the control of actions and business practices must reinforce knowledge and knowledge on the nature of things.

The company requires that all is performance to return to the world of globalization. This means in particular qualitative requirements for employment. At the same time, the current demographic turnaround has consequences in all sectors of the society and gives rise to significant quantitative needs.

Students trained at the University are a tremendous potential to win on these three issues. It announced that the financial crisis will have important effects on employment in France. Even though even the more black scenario is normal, it will well ensure the replacement of the massive departures in retirement. The risk is that the current crisis produces a double blindness. Students are more considering employment as a way to escape an increasingly feared unemployment. And companies think, in a resurgence of tension in their favour on the labour market, revise downward their conditions of employment, especially for new hires. This double blindness may lead to a multiplication of desirable casting errors for the employee or the company.

To be and remain competitive, businesses must find the right skills, keeping the new recruited, to make it attractive and successful intergenerational management. For students, build his professional life requires knowing and knowledge value, to know the world of work and have the weapons to carry out his route.

The performance will come from the meeting between these requirements, the meeting between students and companies, a change of the deal for students-business link. Times are suitable for this bet. The professional becoming today is the first concern of the students (barometer students-Department of higher education, February 2008) and their families. Universities are engaged in policies to move closer to the world of work and to prepare further the employability of students. They are open to the pedagogy of alternation and professionalization. The new mission employability by the universities Act and the establishment in each University to aid offices to professional insertion, plan Campus, the possibility of creating a University Foundation, open in the matter of opportunities should not hesitate to seize.

It's to go further, to support and strengthen the rapprochement ongoing movements, because the world of work and that of studies remains isolated from the other. The meeting remains to be done for the vast majority of students. The Manu, created with the support of large companies and the Ministry of employment, agency wants to help tens of thousands of students to insert itself onto the labour market. Students were not expected to have the talent to take in hand, standing in many areas. He must now give them the opportunity to also deploy to build their professional future.