For Calyon, academic institutions are places to share experiences and discover young talent. Through meetings and discussions at your school we take the opportunity to give you a real insight into our business lines.
 

To help you in choosing your career path, we participate in forums at business schools, engineering schools and top universities in France and other countries. We also take part in practical learning initiatives, allowing you to discover the practical side of our activities. All events in which we participate provide a chance for you to talk with our operational staff, learn about our internships, VIE offers and work-study contracts, and give us your CV.

When we approach students, they are often struck by the quality of the contact that is established. It becomes a topic of conversation. Not surprisingly therefore, for the last two years, Crédit Agricole Group has ranked as one of the best-regarded companies among students at leading universities (Universum-Le Monde).

 

To build our attractiveness and visibility with recent graduates and foster closer relationships with schools, Crédit Agricole Group has created a new initiative – School Captains.
 

School Captains are alumni of the institutions with which they link, serving as true company ambassadors to students and academic administrators at their former schools. They participate in practical learning programs and introduce young people to our Group through various initiatives. Supported by a group of fellow alumni, they form a Core Team.
 

This venture was launched in 2007, and has met with a very warm welcome. Several hundred of our employees, representing various Group business lines and subsidiaries, have volunteered to become the special contact with students at their old schools. We are shortly to deploy the venture internationally.

 

 

To build our attraThrough internships, the VIE (Volontariat International en Entreprise) program and work-study contracts, Calyon facilitates choosing a professional career path and developing skills.
These solutions form a part of our quality pre-recruitment effort. They ensure smooth integration into the company and provide a chance to learn both life and business skills.
 

Some of our business lines are more active than others in the area of internships, VIE and work-study contracts. They include capital markets, the investment bank, IT, the Risk department, and the Regional Sales and Finance departments.
 

Through internships, VIE and work-study contracts, our priority is to offer you diverse tasks with real responsibilities. You become a part of a real business venture. In exchange, we commit, through your internship supervisor, to provide you with personalized help in your career. Finally, the congenial work atmosphere and humanistic values of our teams help us to succeed in this relationship.
 

Our volunteer-based approach to working with young people can be summed up in the following annual figures: 

 

The Global Management Challenge is an international strategy and management simulation tournament. It was created almost 30 years ago, and now draws almost 50,000 students, managers and administrators of top business and technical schools and universities.
 

The Global Management Challenge’s relevance and firm grounding in reality illustrate our determination to build, together with students, a true partnership based the relish of challenge, team spirit, complementary knowledge and experience. Each team faces the reality of the business world in a multicultural environment, where it pursues the goal of maximizing the value of its company’s stock.
 

For the sixth year in a row, Crédit Agricole Group is a partner with the tournament’s French team. In 2007-2008, it sponsored students from 21 schools and universities. Calyon directly coached seven teams.