In Roubaix, an SME offers to publish on the Internet the resumes of job seekers, even associating a video. Presentation of this first experiment in France. Interviews with Belaïd HALLALI, commercial attaché looking for a job, and Hassan ERRACHIDI, manager of PIB Développement, designer of this paid service for companies wishing to access the database recording more than 6000 profiles.
The government requested a report submitted to the Minister of Labour on recruitment practices in order to moralize hiring in the face of the multiplication of tests based on various psychological and para-psychological techniques (graphology, morphopsychology, numerology, astrology). Interview with Gérard LYON-CAEN, author of the report: "I found that psychological characteristics were put before professional skills. There is a long-term danger to the health of the French economy. If you have pleasant people at the head of companies but below the required capacities, in the current economic war it is bad".
Last night at the Maison de la chimie in Paris, 700 pre-selected candidates participated in a "Job convention" meeting whose goal is the direct recruitment of candidates for jobs from a dozen companies present that evening. Interviews with Eric, a young graduate of HEC who finds this method interesting, and Jean-Luc N'GUYEN VAN MAI, Chief of Staff of Thomson CSF.
The Aubry Act will try to remedy the abuses noted regarding the use of graphology and astrology in recruitment. Interview with Jean-Paul GAUTHIER, president of the federation of professional graphologists.
Report devoted to grapho-psychologists, morpho-psychologists and graphologists at the origin of recruitment tests in companies. They explain what can be expected from these tests. Interviews with Jean MASSON, CEO of a recruitment firm, and Florence LIEVRE, grapho-psychologist.
Two male recruiters in a recruitment firm Stéphane TRIZNA er J.J. FOURGOUS analyze CV in support of the weaknesses and strengths of the candidates. As Stéphane TRIZNA says "the photo of a woman can represent a danger in a company". One of the recruiters shows a photo pinned to the resume, Harcourt type. He adds: "The very seductive salesmen will spend their time going to the secretary, which represents a cause of elimination of the CV." The CV of another woman is eliminated immediately because she specifies that she has a baby of 3 weeks.