Business Knowledge

The purpose of this module is to provide some tools for integrating into a company. It is organized as follows:

Lectures / Lab Sessions

• Franc-Christophe BAURENS (CIRAD) – Safety Rules (Greenhouse-Laboratory)
• Ludovic MARIN (UM-Staps) – Postures at Work: CM and Heavy Lifting (Practical Training in the Gym)     

Company visits. Company visits are divided into two parts.

• Mock Hiring Exercise. Fifteen days before the visit, students receive a job offer from the company. Students have one week to respond (resume and cover letter). On the day of the visit, a member of the company’s recruitment team conducts a debriefing on the resumes and cover letters.
• Tour of the facilities.

The companies visited are:

• Bayer (Nîmes). An example of a seed company. From variety development to seed distribution.
• Staphyt (Marsillargues). An example of a plant research company. Description of the trial process from start to finish. Discussion of the roles of research technician and research manager.
• CTIFL (Balladran). Example of a technical center. Description of the technical center’s activities and a tour of the experiments being conducted in the greenhouses.
• CIRAD (Montpellier). Tour of the greenhouses and descriptions of the experiments being conducted there.

Good to know:

• Understand the “seed” and “plant protection” sectors, as well as research and experimental centers in France and in tropical countries
• Understand the different departments within a company.
• Have a basic understanding of workplace safety (posture, labels, etc.)

Expertise

• a resume, a cover letter, and a job interview

Hourly volumes*:

            CM: 3

            TD: 7.5

            Lot: 16

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Students in this module will be required to submit a portfolio that includes: a job search, a resume and cover letter, a career plan, a skills assessment, a questionnaire on soft skills, and a description of the internship topic.

An individual interview is conducted with the program director to discuss the student’s career plans and review the various components of the application.