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After a very short experience at the Revue Fiduciaire, a fiduciary magazine, unsatisfied, she was recruited at the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Vieillesse on the difficult project at work. “That was real”. This mission seems to me to be one of Elodie’s many experiences, the one that really fascinated her. “I had responsibilities and the atmosphere was excellent”. On this experience, she seemed to have found her way. An alchemy between project management and a sense of what it did. I then imagined, listening to her, that this experience had continued for a few years anyway, at least for more than three years. Indeed, her missions were broad and exciting for a profile as open as hers. Setting up a Tough Prevention Account system, deploying it in the network of regional old-age funds and understanding all of its businesses, their development, the laws associated with them, useful training, etc. are all challenges that Elodie took care to describe to me. I admit I learned a lot.

But she still changed after a year and a half… “It was clear that I was going all the way, I was not saving myself”. Elodie gave everything and I sometimes think that time passed before her. In fact, another reason beyond having mastered her position motivated her departure: the restructuring of the department. “I didn’t like this restructuring. I didn’t fit in”.

And here’s our Elodie now consulting for a new company in the Défense region of Paris. “Being hired as a consultant in a company without having gone to business school was a confirmation for me”. The result: a new social status rewarding her studies, and a much higher salary. “I approached my spouse’s social level and that made me happy for a while. But I quickly remembered that the priority for me wasn’t there”.

This did not last…. Because of her husband’s transfer after a year, Elodie had to head south. She then took the time to reflect on her “fighter’s journey”. From all these experiences, she drew a major lesson: “do today’s companies know how to recruit to meet the challenges of our society?”. After all, she had to face very different situations in her journey, situations that her profile had not prepared her for. She had succeeded in doing so, however, thanks in particular to the open-mindedness of some of the companies that recruited her. In Elodie’s eyes, this is not what happens to a good number of profiles which, if they don’t correspond to a certain format, will be rejected by the company…. It was only one step away from setting up a start-up that had to deal with this problem.