A team story

Anaïs Reymondon, Company and Career Relations Manager

What is your job? What is the objective of your job?

As Manager of the Corporate and Career Relations Department at the ICD Business School Paris, I am at the heart of a close relationship between companies, teaching staff and students. 
I coordinate a team of 3 people whose mission is to guarantee the reputation of the school in the professional and institutional world, to support young people in the construction of their professional project throughout their training and to promote the employability of graduates. 

How did you get into this profession?

I am a business school graduate with international experience in Africa, Asia and the United States. I started my career as Communication and Development Manager for a group of schools. I took a short entrepreneurial interlude by joining the launch of a publishing house in Literature and Human Sciences and then of a consulting firm in Digital Strategy.

I was missing the teeming world of schools and decided to join the IGS Group, whose values I shared.

What is your daily activity? What is a typical day?

The activity of the corporate relations team is very varied with several dimensions :

• educational, through monitoring changes in professions and skills, coaching students in their search for internships, internships and jobs, organising events (company forums, job conferences, Professional Advisory Boards), co-constructing case studies/challenges with partners and teacher-researchers and organising company visits

• commercial, to develop new collaborations, to offer specific training services and to find funding from companies to strengthen our systems and keep training costs accessible to the greatest number

• relational, since it is at the crossroads of interactions between professionals and students and in collaboration with the pedagogy to invent immersive devices but also in regular interaction with the alumni network and its association ICD Alumni.

What do you prefer/like?

I feel I have a golden job, varied, full of challenges and rich in meaning.
My main objective is to connect and create value.
I like the human size of the ICD Business School, which allows us to remain close to our students, its multicultural diversity and its constant flow of ideas and projects.

Who are your contacts? 

My contacts are the HR departments of companies (campus managers / school relations managers, recruitment and training managers), internship and work-study tutors (sales or marketing managers), students and alumni, the teaching staff, the ICD Business School teams (management, pedagogy, admissions) and the IGS Group (my counterparts from the other schools, key account managers, etc.)

Why do you like working in the student environment?

Working in the student environment requires you to constantly question your own certainties and working methods, to be open and curious, to stay in tune with the evolution of society and the realities of tomorrow's world. This is very dynamic.

Do you have an anecdote or a missing memory?

I remember my first day at the ICD 15 years ago, which started with a meeting to organise the Business Day for sales and marketing functions. I was greeted by the big smile of Marie-Laurence Dutartre, at the time my counterpart from a competing school partnering the event. We worked very well together, even though we were competitors, for several years. 

Marie-Laurence joined the ICD team last year.I am very happy to work with her and Sabine Franquet on a daily basis.

We form a close-knit, complementary and committed team.