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RELATIONS WITH SCHOOLS AND PARTNERSHIPS
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■ Discovering professions
• As part of “DP3” option (Discovering Professions in 3 rd year - the year in
which students choose their orientation in France), a programme implemented
by the National Ministry for Education in France to enable students to discover
different professions, the Accor HR department invited Parisian 3 rd year
students to spend a day at the ibis Paris Bercy. The objective: present the
hotel and restaurant professions, and promote them through on the job
experience. The students were divided into sub-groups and accompanied by
the heads of department and experienced the organisation in the hotel through
5 workshops: kitchen, restaurant, reception, rooms and technical services. This
kind of operation is implemented in many countries.
• Accor has put together a catalogue in partnership with ONISEP
(National Organisation for Information on Education and Professions)
for the secondary school students. This partnership corresponds to
educational teams’ demands for better adapted teaching resources
and a better understanding of the business community. In this
catalogue, based on the Accor Group’s organisation, the two main
activities, hotels and services, are presented: their dynamics, their
prospects and their jobs. The large range of professions, the Group’s
international dimension, the impacts of the changes in customer
behaviour and sustainable development are just some of the
elements presented to introduce these activities to students.
With this partnership, Accor is participating in a teaching effort for
youngsters, while sensitising them to the hotel and restaurant industry and
the professions available in the Group. To facilitate this work, the catalogue is
in two parts: presentation of the company and its evolutions with the points of
view of experts, employee testimonials and reports, and learning activities
including one in English, thus bringing students to the heart of these topics.