The expression “to work easily in a team” personal values and attitudes, such as openmindedness, flexibility and external skills for interacting within the work. Some employers asserted that teamwork was a problem for a large number of young professionals. This statement seems to be confirmed by the results obtained in the survey: in spite of the fact that 96 % of them declare that they learnt this skill, three people declared that teamwork was not developed enough at school. This probably can be explained by the fact that teamwork is approached through from various angles and at various levels. Consequently, it would be interesting to examine in detail how teamwork or work in groups is taught within schools and how it can be applied in professional contexts (collective creations, adaptation within a company, etc.). Lack of knowledge of the requirements of an itinerant lifestyle was also raised. Students as well as employers mentioned it as a field where lack of relevant skills can be a problem during collaboration. The next issue is administration and management. The schools’ dilemma has already been mentioned: whether students should be taught to manage and organise their work or not. Looking at the former students’ feedback, the answer is a clear “Yes”. These skills are generally poor and nearly half of the respondents mentioned them in the open question. The definitions of the skills that the young professionals feel they are lacking are sometimes too general, but in other cases, where the students have learned some general skills, they specified more precise requirements. This is the case for administration and paperwork for instance: young professionals expressed a wish to learn more about international tax laws.
Promotion material is a common issue for both the sector and the young professionals. Employers mentioned that they constantly use promotion tools and they also insisted on the importance of informal channels as communication tools for casting and for their selection of shows. However, young professionals stated that they would have been very happy to have a better understanding of the market when graduating. The most significant open feedback focuses on this field. Consequently, the majority of the young professionals underline the lack of possibilities during their studies for building professional networks, which highlights that the role of structured but informal networks identi- fied by the employer is of capital importance in the sector. In the field of direct promotion techniques, many young professionals would have liked to have had better skills and knowledge especially in digital video and website creation in order to create their own promotional material. However, the participants who had access to this type of training did not find it very useful in general. Thus, a careful approach to introducing this type of course into the curricula is crucial: the specific course must serve the actual needs of students. When the employers were asked to rank selection criteria, creativity scored the highest. From the survey of young professionals, creativity was the skill with the highest rate of acquisition. This suggests a harmony between schools and the broader sector about the primordial importance of this skill.
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