To investigate individual trajectories is to get to grips with career trajectories and initial and continuing training pathways. Céreq analyses all these trajectories and pathways and their evolution, in a context in which there tends to be greater permeability between employment and education/training and between initial and continuing education/training. Céreq bases its studies on field observations, interviews and statistical surveys. Among the last named, the Générations surveys (a national programme that tracks the early years of the working lives of young people with all levels of education and training) and the Defis surveys (on continuing training for employees) provide insights into these trajectories in all their complexity and over their entire duration.
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Three years into their working lives, the young people of the 2017 cohort of leavers from education and training saw the early stages of their careers thrown into confusion. Questioned several months afterwards, one third of them stated that the crisis had led them to rethink their career plans. Was it really a decisive factor in this desire for change? How had lockdown changed these young…
High-school students from priority neighbourhoods face specific difficulties in obtaining the bac and going on to higher education. Above and beyond the effects linked to their social background, does the fact of living in a priority neighbourhood have its own impact on their post-bac trajectories and their education-to-work transition? Céreq and the Agence nationale de…
Uno de cada ocho jóvenes de la generación 2010 obtuvo un nuevo diploma en los cinco años siguientes al fin de su formación inicial. Las formas de estos retornos precoces al camino de los diplomas son muy variadas, al igual…

When Education has finished
The book presents the detailed results of the large-scale national survey carried out in the spring of 2016 among young people who left education in 2013. Over the past twenty years, the Céreq has conducted a series of triennial surveys, with a representative sample of all young people leaving the education system in a given year. The main objective of these Generation surveys is to…
What became of the 369,000 young people who left higher education in 2010, with or without a degree? In order to answer that question, Céreq has analysed the first three years of the working lives of the 2010 cohort of leavers, who were surveyed again in 2013. A portrait of an age cohort, professional socialisation while at university, a detailed overview of the conditions…
Young people who left higher education in 2007 have found it more difficult to find employment as a result of the economic crisis, as the 2010 survey of 2007 cohort of HE leavers shows. However, although unemployment has increased, job quality has, on average, been maintained.Moreover, while vocational bachelor's degrees are proving successful, the other vocational qualifications do not all…