300 days before Paris-2024, the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games organized a recruitment session on Tuesday at the Cité du cinéma in Saint-Denis. The event’s partner companies have more than 16,000 positions to fill.
Fabien Dessaigne – Today at 08:00
In the heart of the future Olympic village, 10,000 candidates presented themselves on Tuesday September 26 in the main hall of the Cité du cinéma in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. In an impressive hubbub, thousands of CVs were exchanged between job seekers and recruiters from the 50 partner companies of Paris-2024.
An opportunity “that will only present itself once in a lifetime”
This day was a golden opportunity to land a mission linked to a “global sporting event that will only occur once in a lifetime”, notes Smail Khaldi. At 53, this former construction worker wants to use the Olympics as a springboard to bounce back into a new field.
“At my age, my old job was becoming physically hard. This is why I now want to work in logistics or transport. And being a participant in the Paris-2024 Games would be a great starting point for my professional reconversion,” explains this sports enthusiast.
As for this young woman looking for work, the Paris Olympics are an opportunity to return to active life. Photo EBRA/Fabien Dessaigne
Like him, many unemployed people came with the intention of playing a role in the Olympics next summer. If, on the surface, the offers are attractive, in reality, positions entirely and directly dedicated to the Games are rare or are sometimes precarious.
“We are recruiting 200 people in the electricity sector. All the offers are obviously not dedicated to the Olympics, but a small part, such as those of project manager, are for Paris 2024,” explains Elvia Gomez, recruitment manager at Enedis.
However, this does not slow down the most motivated. “I’m a former basketball player, so it’s true that it would be a dream to be a hostess in a stadium. It would be a bit like my Olympics! But my main objective remains to find a job,” says this woman who lost her previous job following a long illness.
The fear of being “cleared” after the Olympics
In private security, a sector under tension, the priority is stability. “I have been working in this industry for 20 years and I know very well how things are going to be. The recruiters promise you a permanent contract and when the Olympics are over, they will let us go,” says Abdel, somewhat annoyed.
For his part, the president of Cojo, Tony Estanguet, is much more optimistic: “Certainly, the needs will increase temporarily for next summer, but regardless of the Games, there is a deficit of 20,000 people per year in this sector. By being recruited for Paris-2024, it will be additional experience to bring to bear for future opportunities and we have, upstream, worked to ensure that as many positions as possible are sustainable over time.”
In total, of the 181,000 jobs needed to organize the 2024 Olympics when the flame goes out, 2,000 will have been recruited on this “speed dating” day alone on Tuesday.
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