The UTC Careers Centre
UTC has established a Career Center for all its students in order to optimize the conditions of their transition into employment and to build a strong foundation for a sustainable career aligned with their values and those of the institution.
You will become the professional you choose to be.
The Careers Observatory
UTC has a Careers Observatory the role of which is to measure and monitor the professional integration of all its graduates.
A survey is conducted annually among graduates during the three years following graduation.
Data on professional status, employment, salary, job search time and general employment conditions are collected, processed and relayed to the various programme heads for consideration and integration into their development advice.
The data is also disseminated to students and graduates.
Professional integration
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Information and guidance to support career projection
Identify your target profession
UTC students benefit from numerous interactions with working professionals: career-focused lectures, technical conferences, in-class talks, career fairs, etc.
These interactions enable students to gain insight into the professions accessible after graduation and to identify the one(s) that best match their aspirations.
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Understanding careers in research
UTC has its own doctoral school. It regularly organizes information sessions on pursuing doctoral studies, on research careers, and offers opportunities to interact with PhD candidates, as well as events throughout the year such as the Research Nights, in collaboration with UTC’s eight research laboratories.
Regardless of the programme studied at UTC, internships/placements play a central role in acquiring new knowledge & skills and putting it into practice.
Students benefit from numerous opportunities to network with recruiters throughout their studies.
The Comutec Fair
More than 100 recruiters come to Compiègne specifically to meet and exchange with UTC students.
To join the Association and get closer to recruiters and the realities of the engineering sector, click here.
The Career and professional integration Service
- A tailor-made programme designed to learn about internship/placement opportunities aligned with your studies.
- A forum dedicated entirely to internships/placements every year in March.
- More than 40 career lectures per year during which major recruiters come to present their activities and internship opportunities.
- A career tool just for you on Jobteaser, with tools to help you write your resume, prepare for interviews, exclusive information and privileged access to the semester-long career programme. A dedicated and secure space to store all your career documents.
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Students also benefit from individual and personalized support in their search for internships.
A specific platform for the dissemination of pedagogically validated internship/placement offers brings together all the internship offers available to students.
The UTC Engineering programme
UTC students are encouraged to complete four internships/placements during their studies.
- Four- to five-week basic non-executive work internship
- Four- to five-week intercultural internship/placement abroad
- Six-month engineering assistant internship at the beginning of the fourth year
- Six-month final project internship at the end of the programme.
These internships provide real immersion in the workplace, with students gradually taking on increasing responsibility as they progress toward becoming engineers.
UTC students are supported in their search by teaching staff and UTC’s internship/placement department.
A Moodle space is dedicated to internship/placement searches and provides access to various resources such as the internship/placement guide, useful contacts, general advice and more.
Master's degree programme
Students are encouraged to complete a six-month internship at the end of their studies: a real immersion in a company or laboratory to test and validate their knowledge & skills.
Individual and personalized support is provided by the Master's degree programme team and the student program manager. A specific platform for the dissemination of validated internship offers in education brings together all the internship offers available to students.
Professional Bachelor's degree programme
Students are encouraged to complete a six-month internship at the end of their studies: a true immersion in a company to test and validate their knowledge & skills.
Individualized support is provided by the programme’s Director. A specific platform for posting approved teaching internships/placements brings together all of the internship opportunities available to students.
UTC has an internal platform for posting approved teaching apprenticeship placements.
In addition, UTC systematically provides preparation and support for finding placements.
- CV formatting ;
- Structuring the search for and follow-up of applications ;
- Preparation for interviews ;
- 100% Apprenticeship Forum every year in May, both remotely and face-to-face ;
- Connecting and exchanging with potential recruiters ;
- Follow-up on applications.
A specific platform for posting approved teaching assignments brings together all the opportunities available to future apprentices.
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Further studies
Program directors are available to students who wish to pursue further studies to discuss their plans and support them in preparing their applications. In addition, each year at Comutec, a business school and a management school are present to answer students’ questions.
Each student’s proposed study plan is reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Pursuing doctoral studies
UTC has its own doctoral school. It regularly organizes information sessions on pursuing a PhD, on research careers, and offers opportunities to interact with PhD candidates, as well as events throughout the year such as the Research Nights, in collaboration with UTC’s eight research laboratories.
The UTC student curriculum includes numerous interactions with companies and encourages students to experiment with an engineering and professional attitude through multiple projects.
- Long internships/placements
Real-life experience of what is expected of an engineer, manager, or a PhD in the performance of their duties.
In the engineering programme, students will complete between 12 and 14 months of internships/placements in external companies.
- Educational projects
Group work on a subject assigned by a company, supervised by a UTC lecturer-cum-research scientist. During this project, exchanges with the company and its representatives are very beneficial to students and allow them to develop in a professional setting.
- Student society involvement
Extracurricular involvement is strongly encouraged at UTC, which has nearly 120 student societies. Structured involvement in a society (as a board member, in finance, logistics, management, etc.) puts future graduates in the position expected of an engineer or professional.
- Exchanges with professionals
At UTC-Compiegne, students have the opportunity to interact with professionals throughout their studies (manpower management, human relations (HR) lectures, career lectures, CV Days, recruitment fairs, classroom presentations, etc.). These exchanges help students improve on their professional attitude.
- Group information on expectations and professional attitude
Each semester, recruitment professionals lead HR lectures to inform students, give them advice, and enable them to keep up with developments in effective approaches used by recruiters and companies.
The Career and Professional Integration Service offers a comprehensive program each semester.
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Starting or taking over a business is one of the possible paths to professional fulfilment for UTC students and graduates (-see below)
Students benefit from comprehensive and extensive support, from raising awareness of entrepreneurship to hosting their start-up in a business incubator.
They can benefit from student-entrepreneur or apprentice-entrepreneur status, which gives them access to the tools, support, and facilities they need to optimize their idea or project for creating a start-up or business.
Pôle entrepreneuriat
UTC supports and monitors the professional integration and job placement of all its graduates for up to three years after graduation. They are then monitored by the UTC Alumni association.
The career observatory provides students and future graduates with key data on the professional integration of previous graduating classes to help them position themselves in the job market. (Cf. Link to the career observatory above).
All of the UTC Career Program's initiatives are open to young graduates (Comutec Forum, Career Lectures, Mentoring Program, HR lectures, technical conferences, etc.).
In addition to these initiatives, specific graduate programs are offered each year.
- 100% First Job Forum;
- Inter-UT (with UBM ‑Belfort-Montbéliard, UTT-Troyes, Recruitment Forum;
- Networking evenings organized by the UTC Alumni Association;
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The Career and Professional Integration Service also provides individual support in finding employment for young graduates who need it.
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