-> In first and second years, students work on knowing their own personality. At the end of the second year, they do a personality test, used by recruiters and directors of human resources, for a better understanding of their profile with regards to the four cerebral “preferences”: reasoning, organisation, creation and relations.

-> In the third year, students work on their choice of specialisation. EDC has set up “Carrefours des metiers” – Professions Crossroads – in order to inform students about different professions and openings from the school’s four specialisations: Entrepreneurial Management, Marketing Management, Finance and International Management. Professionals from these sectors and recent graduates come to the school to present their sector of activity, their professions and the evolution of their career.

-> In the fourth and fifth years, emphasis is on the choice of profession and the type of company. A management coach has been recruited by EDC to help students finalize their professional project and make it work.

Naturally, all through the school programme, students are taught how to write strong covering letters and powerful CVs, and coached for recruitment interviews in French, English and their second chosen language.

Each year, thanks to its network of former students and its privileged relations with business partners, EDC receives more than 2700 internship offers.

These offers can be found on the school’s intranet site and are updated daily.

The “School-Businesses Relations” department organises regular “Encounters and Recruitments” between students and companies looking for interns and recent graduates.

AT the same time, throughout the university year, the staff of the “School-Businesses Relations” department meet with students for individual interviews to advise them and help them find internships that correspond to their professional project.

Throughout the school programme, a coach helps students right until their first job. 

At EDC, one in five students sets up their own company either while at the school or within five years of graduating.  

To develop this specificity that makes EDC rank at the top for business schools in terms of creation of businesses, 40 former students, including Alain Dominique Perrin, Executive Director of Compagnie Financière Richemont, Michel Trollé, Founder of Century 21 and Patrick Allaire, CEO of Gestal, decided to launch a million euro fund called EDC Capital. The objective: help students and graduates who hope to create or take over a business. 

This initiative which is unique in France is able to help finance around five to ten projects a year. It includes a complete program of support and assistance, including an incubator, mentoring by a company director, and advice by multidiscipline experts.

In parallel, the business nursery for EDC student start-ups is designed to help students starting up businesses by offering them a logistics platform and advice by specialists both from within and outside the school.

In 2008, eleven companies were set up.

Didier Rosenberg,

Graduate EDC 2000.

“Nine years ago and straight out of EDC school, I created Datawords, a communications agency specialising in international linguistic services, with three associates. Today, I am the Managing Director. We are present in 5 continents with nearly 100 collaborators and in 2008 we reached a turnover of 12 million euros.

EDC was excellent training. From the beginning of the school programme, we were coached on how to make contact with the world of business, notably through internships and business assignments, while at the same time we received high-quality theoretical knowledge. The entrepreneurial atmosphere that reigns at EDC helped me to quickly demystify the complexity of setting up a business and to make the “great leap”. The presence and involvement of such great business leaders as Alain Dominique Perrin, Robert Louis Dreyfus and Jean Todt contributed a lot to our motivation as well as often presenting us with models. Finally and for me the most important thing, EDC continues to offer serious assistance to its students even after they have finished their studies. In my case, it was thanks to EDC that we got our first client, and when you know the difficulty that that can represent for a new business without references, you don’t forget it.”