Companies are more willing to sponsor everything and anything

N ' fear not! "Without take for John Paul II, Bernard Ramanantsoa, Executive Director of CET, would be tempted to send the same message as the successor of saint Peter at the WYD to his very young flock. Useless elsewhere too pounding the thing, because the 374 "happy few" arrived mid-September on the vast and verdant campus in Jouy-en-Josas seem not particularly worried about the economic crisis that so many other young people, less well armed. "We will graduate in four years." In the meantime, there is hope that the recovery will be at the Rendez-vous! "And then, in any event, we are fortunate to have this label CET", observes Aymeric Grange, nineteen years, major of the new promo 2009-2013.

All his classmates are more or less on the same wavelength, although the crisis is well present in the minds. "HEC is not a cut microcosm of the outside world", said Marguerite Cazeneuve, allowed 2ndyear and Chair since April of the Office of students (BDE), the hub of student life. "We all among friends and family of people who have experienced professional difficulties, and all the daily newspapers are available in the morning on campus."The economic slowdown is felt more concrete in associative life, in which most students are involved.

"Companies are more willing to sponsor everything and anything." The competition is tough between schools, and associations of a given school. "It took scramble to find the sponsor of the new promo", says the President of the BDE, not just proud to be able to convince society SEB untie his purse. Get an interview with a Manager and persuade him, despite unfavourable conditions, to hand the bag is for all CET budding a major exercise, at least also valued as an A or a B to a test of international taxation. The atmosphere on the campus has therefore changed since members of the Medef debated here in early September, coaching the bonus or the redesign of capitalism.

Light cold blow

'New kids' concerns are more immediate: register or not to join the examination end 1styear to win the double diploma CET-Sciences po file a record in an attempt to, at the risk of closing other doors, to spend a semester at Wharton (Philadelphia), Keio University (Tokyo) or Freie (Berlin), three universities most prestigious with HEC has a program international trade and a little bit more long term, that of this famous year of caesura between the Assistant 1reet a long-term internship a humanitarian mission a tour of the world Seen, these very good students are privileged that the crisis does not frighten. While the HEC arrived at the end of curriculum in 2008 were well known a cold call, especially if they had opted for the major "finance", the most popular of all, that which drains every year the cream of the crop.

In the heart of the economic-financial maelstrom which may disrupt the world economy since the crisis of the "subprime" in 2007, banks suddenly closed the valves, as they had done seven years ago after the twenties of the network economy. Young graduates to stay a little longer than usual on the box "course". As their elders, some have suffered an accident of course which was sometimes forced to redirect to the Council or the "real economy". Between March and July, Alain Nebout, dealing with over a decade of the alumni association career pole, found a slight increase ( 15) of the number of individual interviews that it grants each year to any member of the diaspora.

Royal Road

But the small tsunami that of some Association feared for September is not occurred, the flow of requests with a normal course. At the same school, the major "finance", if it has registered a very slight edge to a decline in the number of applicants, has not lost its prestige or its status as Royal way. And the myth of the banker of affairs and defeating the "deals" and host a huge bonus is always also perennial in an entire class of students. Jacques Olivier, who directs the master funds and teaches this discipline students to program high school (those from the prépas), is not too much chickweed for its students. "After the bursting of the bubble, 2002 and 2003 had been very bad years in the bank-finance sector. But 2004 was the best of the Decade. All those who arrived on the job market this year had only the choice.

Remains that this optimism is not to the taste of all his colleagues. Thus the sociologist Andreu Solé, a course entitled "Ethics and enterprise", regrets some form of eternal return: "really has the feeling that, now that the purge appears to be finished or nearly, it again is"business as usual"." It is extremely worrying.