This is a direct consequence of the health crisis: the number of job seekers without any activity jumped 7.6% last year in Brittany (+ 6% in Finistère). In the country of Brest, the Facebook group “Job offers Brest and surroundings” created in January 2020 has become an essential place to look for work. We find there each week dozens of job advertisements in all fields.
When Bérengère arrived in Brest last October to follow her husband, a naval officer, she had the reflex to go on the social network to find advertisements. “I came across this page, I looked, I sent my CV and a week later I was hired”, she says behind the counter of the tobacconist where she now works on a permanent contract. “This group is a very good thing, it’s really practical when you don’t know anyone, when you can’t register with Pôle Emploi yet …”
I don’t do the job of Pôle Emploi, I try to show solidarity
Compliments and thanks that go straight to the heart of Magali Menour, the creator of this private group (she manually validates each registration request). Former volunteer for eleven years at the Red Cross, and reservist in the army, it is the desire to help others that pushed her to embark on this adventure, from which she acknowledges drawing “personal satisfaction”.
In one year, this tram driver who resumed studies in parallel to become a manager, has become a fine connoisseur of the local labor market. Constantly on the lookout, she has built a network with employers and temp agencies who send her their offers. But the administrator does not just post advertisements: she also collects the CVs of her members, which she classifies methodically to forward them to recruiters. A real public service mission, carried out voluntarily in his spare time.
If she recognizes that the economic context is not favorable, Magali Merour is well placed to see that there are permanent job offers, especially “in industry, or in positions of plumber, welder … the craft industry is also a sector in great demand. When you want you can, frankly there is employment.”
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