by ROHIT
http://www.abg.asso.fr/offre_rechercher.php?nature=1&mz=1&lg=en
About ABG:
Founded in 1980, the Association Bernard Gregory promotes the value of training through research to the non-academic world and helps the entry of young PhDs from any discipline into business.
Mission
The mission of the ABG is to promote the placement of PhDs into companies through:
The mission of the ABG is to promote the placement of PhDs into companies through:
- information, professionalisation initiatives and individual support programmes for job seekers,
- promoting training through research within the business world,
- matching the skills of new and recent PhDs to job offers in companies.
Initiatives
The actions of the ABG are complentary to research institutions' and doctoral schools'. They include:
The actions of the ABG are complentary to research institutions' and doctoral schools'. They include:
- Continuous information for PhD students, new and recent PhDs and postdocs on the job market and opportunities for professional contact, through a website that receives 400,000 visits per month, 'Docteurs&Co' quarterly newsletter, around a hundred interventions at PhD student forums and a European guide 'From PhD to Employment' (170,000 copies downloaded in 2004) available in French and in English.
- Professionalisation initiatives: Doctoriales and the 'Adding value to skills – a new chapter in the thesis' programme (170 PhD students involved in 2004).
- A network of 300 correspondents who provide individual support to new PhDs in structuring their career plans, in writing a CV aimed at the non-academic sector, and who follow them through to recruitment.
- An online CVs database validated by ABG correspondents (1,000 CVs) and a database of company job offers (750 in 2004).
- Coordinating a network of companies and partner research organizations: offering arenas (web and press) to communicate their initiatives and their actions in support of jobs for new and recent PhDs; organizing regular meetings of the Business Club that deal with new and recent PhDs and with companies.
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