ESCE

An interface between students and companies, the Corporate Relations Department serves two purposes:

• Support students in their search for internships and in their professional decisions
• Develop relations with and communication to businesses and monitor changes in business sectors and skills

The Corporate Relations Department is constantly in contact with the professional world as it tries to provide students ongoing, effective assistance.

The Professional Project and the Passport of Competences

Definition of the Professional Project

The project which is set up in ESCE seeks to prepare students for their future employment right from the beginning of their studies.
The project is followed throughout the program of studies by the progressive building of information (research, internships, team-work, meetings, exchanges), of reflection and of anticipation.

Students are expected to plan their career path as well as their international experience according to their wishes but also in function of the employment market and forecasts. The aim is to achieve the necessary competences in order to become truly employable internationally.

In down-to-earth terms, the project concerns the selection of internships, export missions and options of further study. It is then put into operation in seeking employment. The student must present he project and discuss it with a jury of professionals.

For the students, preparing the professional project means:
- becoming an actor for their own future
- creating a real network
- discovering themselves
- anticipating instead of suffering the employment market
- building their own competitive advantage
- acquiring a methodology that can be followed throughout the career

Definition of the Passport of Competences

The Passport of Competences is the inventory of everything that has been acquired in the professional project.

Students will bring together their professional and personal experience, tastes and values in terms of:

- their knowledge: everything they have learnt
- their skills and know-how: the competences they have acquired
- behaviour: the distinguishing features of their personality and character
- their professional motivations, taking into account:
  o their strengths (total knowledge of a foreign language, good relational skills, etc.)
  o their weaknesses (theoretical compared to practical experience, need for improved technological skills, etc.)
  o their constraints (financial difficulties, geographical mobility, health restrictions, etc.)
  o the values they adhere to (self-expression, stability, social prestige, financial motivations, etc.)
- their personal strategy to attain these motivations
- their target career or sector of activity