We organise seminars and sessions/workshops to facilitate and strengthen the expatriate employees' adaptation when arriving in France.
This process involves a mixture of presentations, exchanges, questions, simulations and feedback. For the Welcome Seminar and the workshops, it is important that both members of the couple participate.
Who are the seminars and sessions for?
- your foreign employees of all nationalities,
- their spouses
- French nationals returning home after a long (more than 3 years) period abroad
One or two-day seminar to discuss each person's specific situation
and to present French culture so that participants have the keys
for better cultural integration. Up to 12 people.
OBJECTIVES
- To introduce employees and their partners to French culture and provide them with everything they need to successfully integrate.
- Reduce the negative effects that expatriation or returning home can have on employees, their spouses and the rest of their family.
TOPICS COVERED
- French culture in an international environment
- Healthcare in France
- French Educational System
- Personal and Family Impacts of Being Expatriates/Impatriates
- Daily life
- Understanding French Taxes
- Tourism and how to discover your surroundings
- The cultural shock of returning home (exclusively for French people returning to France)
- Other topics are possible on request
2-hour fun, social meetings are conducted each month following the arrival of the employee. They focus on specific topics frequently encountered by expatriates. These sessions are organised following the end of the seminar. Up to 8 people.
The topics covered include:
- “Paris is a Dream, Why Do I Cry?”
Discussion about the experience of the 1st month, problem resolution, reducing tensions, explaining cultural misunderstandings. - “My Daily Life Experience”
Exchange on each person's experience after 2 months, looking at their neighbourhood, school, French administration etc. - “Time to Enjoy Your New Life”
3rd meeting, with an update on personal and family development. Long-term support for life in France. - “French Taste at Home”.
Last meeting of the term. We welcome the entire group so that they can enjoy a French-style dinner with an interesting cultural and culinary explanation
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Working in France
In addition to the Welcome Seminar, we offer an event that lasts half a day for employees'
spouses who would like to return to work:
- How to define your project / your search for work
- Which organisations to support you
- Making a CV/cover letter “à la française”
- Using social networks when looking for a job
- Presenting and selling yourself during a recruitment interview in France.
We also propose services to support French returnees who have travelled abroad
for many months/years and then experience "cultural shock" on their return.
This is a subject we are used to dealing with, both with students and professionals.
You have been living abroad with your spouse and children for a few years and you have just found out that you have to return to France. You are divided between the pleasure of going back to your roots, your family, and your friends, and the anguish of what awaits you in a country that you left so long ago. You have been back there on holiday but you went there just to enjoy yourself and not to live...
You are concerned about returning because you are fully aware of the changes that have taken place in France during your absence. These changes affect many different aspects of life. They include economic, political, societal, and cultural developments not to mention the constantly changing administrative rules. Are you still known to the French administration or will you have to go through the whole rigmarole as if you were a foreigner ?
