15th Horizons Maroc Forum in Paris a Great Success
30 November 2010
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The 15th edition of the Horizons Maroc Forum, held Sunday at the Palais de la Bourse in Paris, was a great success thanks to the strong participation of Moroccan students from major French schools and universities who came to learn about career opportunities in their country.
About 2,500 students from all over France visited the booths of 39 Moroccan companies that answered the call of the Association of Moroccans of Grandes Ecoles (AMGE-Caravane), organizer of the event.
The lines in front of the stands of some large groups did not empty all day long. They had relocated their human resources department for the occasion, and the managers did not only receive CVs but made every effort to answer the various questions of the visitors. These questions differed depending on whether they were requests for employment, internships, or those related to career development compared to France.
Encouraged by the feedback from previous editions, some students did not hesitate to travel from distant French regions to attend. The organizers had planned buses serving major cities, including Lille, Lyon, Nancy and Toulouse.
Fatima-Ezzahra Bouayad, AMGE-Caravane's communications manager, welcomed the success of this edition in terms of both visitors and participating companies, "who have become our partners in organizing this event."
For many Moroccan groups, this event has become an essential meeting in their recruitment strategy, she said, expressing optimism that, as in previous editions, recruitments will be finalized after this first contact between companies and candidates.
"A student was even recruited on the spot, while others had long interviews with recruiters interested in their profiles," she noted.
The Forum's closing conference led to a contradictory exchange of views between two economists on the state of economic growth and its impact on social development in Morocco.
While Mr. Najib Akesbi, a member of the Economic Analysis Circle of the Abderrahim Bouabid Foundation, believes that GDP growth is still correlated with agricultural GDP growth, Mr. Younes Zrikem, President of the Foreign Trade Commission of the CGEM and ASMEX, points out that despite this correlation, the gap between the two rates is widening, which means that other growth drivers are taking over from the agricultural sector.
Both economists agree that the current growth rate is insufficient to allow the expected economic takeoff and the absorption of the job demand arriving on the labor market.
M. Zrikem called for balancing the trade balance through the development of export capacity, which has unfortunately not kept pace with the opportunities opened up by the free trade agreements concluded by the Kingdom.
He also stressed the need for modernization of agriculture and a territorial distribution of growth, taking advantage of the prospects of the regionalization project.
The Forum is part of the AMGE-Caravane's mission to encourage the return of Moroccan skills established abroad and to enable them to actively participate in the development of Morocco by creating platforms for exchange, meetings and reflection on the country's strategic development axes.
Published November 22, 2010
Posted online November 30, 2010
maroc-journal.com
About 2,500 students from all over France visited the booths of 39 Moroccan companies that answered the call of the Association of Moroccans of Grandes Ecoles (AMGE-Caravane), organizer of the event.
The lines in front of the stands of some large groups did not empty all day long. They had relocated their human resources department for the occasion, and the managers did not only receive CVs but made every effort to answer the various questions of the visitors. These questions differed depending on whether they were requests for employment, internships, or those related to career development compared to France.
Encouraged by the feedback from previous editions, some students did not hesitate to travel from distant French regions to attend. The organizers had planned buses serving major cities, including Lille, Lyon, Nancy and Toulouse.
Fatima-Ezzahra Bouayad, AMGE-Caravane's communications manager, welcomed the success of this edition in terms of both visitors and participating companies, "who have become our partners in organizing this event."
For many Moroccan groups, this event has become an essential meeting in their recruitment strategy, she said, expressing optimism that, as in previous editions, recruitments will be finalized after this first contact between companies and candidates.
"A student was even recruited on the spot, while others had long interviews with recruiters interested in their profiles," she noted.
The Forum's closing conference led to a contradictory exchange of views between two economists on the state of economic growth and its impact on social development in Morocco.
While Mr. Najib Akesbi, a member of the Economic Analysis Circle of the Abderrahim Bouabid Foundation, believes that GDP growth is still correlated with agricultural GDP growth, Mr. Younes Zrikem, President of the Foreign Trade Commission of the CGEM and ASMEX, points out that despite this correlation, the gap between the two rates is widening, which means that other growth drivers are taking over from the agricultural sector.
Both economists agree that the current growth rate is insufficient to allow the expected economic takeoff and the absorption of the job demand arriving on the labor market.
M. Zrikem called for balancing the trade balance through the development of export capacity, which has unfortunately not kept pace with the opportunities opened up by the free trade agreements concluded by the Kingdom.
He also stressed the need for modernization of agriculture and a territorial distribution of growth, taking advantage of the prospects of the regionalization project.
The Forum is part of the AMGE-Caravane's mission to encourage the return of Moroccan skills established abroad and to enable them to actively participate in the development of Morocco by creating platforms for exchange, meetings and reflection on the country's strategic development axes.
Published November 22, 2010
Posted online November 30, 2010
maroc-journal.com
