With the health crisis, some young people wanted to change their horizons.

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  • One year after the entry into force of confinement, decreed on March 17, 2020 to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic,

    20 Minutes

    looks

     back on the consequences of restrictive measures on the younger generations.

  • Our #MoiJeune

    20 Minutes

    - OpinionWay

    barometer

    is particularly interested in the educational and professional career of 18-30 year olds over the past year.

  • This crisis has upset the choice of studies for nearly one in two students (45%).

    And a quarter of 23-30 year olds plan to change their professional orientation.

Containment, deconfinement, curfew, distance education, the shaken French economy ... For a year, young people have seen their benchmarks blurred, their projects questioned and the world evolving in a direction that is still uncertain.

In this context, the health crisis is felt on their choice of course for students, but also on the beginnings of working life for young graduates.

This is what our barometer #MoiJeune

20 Minutes

- OpinionWay * shows.

Reorientation, shorter or longer studies ...

The coronavirus first had an impact on students: this crisis indeed affected the choice of a course for nearly one in two students (45%).

Some people decide to reorient themselves, to shorten their studies, to extend them, to postpone a stay abroad, to opt for a continuation of different studies… This is easily explained by Sylvie Amici, president of the APsyEN (Association of psychologists and psychology in national education): "When he is in high school, a student's orientation project is above all guided by the representations he has of a profession, its desirability. social and if it corresponds to his personality.

But the students take more account of the conditions of professional integration ”.

Many sectors having been shut down for a year, and others having experienced a drastic drop in activity, the perception of jobs that recruit has necessarily changed.

“This pushes some students enrolled in generalist licenses to change direction, to move towards more professional degrees, such as a BTS or BUT (ex-DUT),” Sylvie Amici analyzes.

Another reason may also push them to change their course, according to Marie Vilquin, operational manager of Smen'up, a career guidance platform for high school and college students: “Before the Covid-19 crisis, many students reoriented themselves after their first year in higher education.

The health crisis seems to be accelerating the movement, because some have felt lost with the online courses at the university, which they have difficulty in following, and prefer to opt for training where they will be more supervised ”.

A quarter of them plan to change their professional orientation

Students are not the only ones to branch off.

Because for young people who have finished their studies and are looking for a first job, or for those who have already embarked on the professional world, the horizon has also changed.

Still according to our #MoiJeune

20 Minutes

- OpinionWay

barometer

, a quarter of them plan to change professional orientation, therefore profession or sector, due to the Covid-19 crisis (20% of 23-27 year olds and 26% of 28-30 year olds).

Among them, about a third want to do so because the sector they were targeting no longer offers enough opportunities (43% among the 23-27 year olds concerned and 30% among the 28-30 year olds concerned), and half because that they want to do a job that makes more sense.

Figures which can be explained in part by the desire to ensure their backs: “Young graduates anticipate the risk of being made redundant in certain sectors.

They prefer to reorient themselves rather than endure the situation, ”Sylvie Amici analyzes.

"The health crisis has also highlighted certain professions linked to health, digital technology, e-commerce, which appear to young people as offering more professional opportunities", also observes Marie Vilquin.

The values ​​of a generation

This desire to change career path is also explained by the difficult conditions for these young people to start working life, according to Sylvie Amici: “A job is not just a job, but a collective.

For a young graduate, starting his career teleworking most of the time is very difficult.

Because it does not allow us to integrate in the same way, to better support the tasks that we do not like to do at work thanks to the advice of colleagues.

Teleworking dilutes the meaning of employment by cutting social ties, ”she said.

A search for meaning in the work that refers to the values ​​of this generation, as Marie Vilquin underlines: “More responsible consumption, the fight against inequalities, the consideration of climate issues are issues that interest this class more than ever. of age.

Hence his desire to find a job where everyone can have a positive impact on the world ”.

* Study #MoiJeune 20 Minutes - OpinionWay conducted online from March 5 to 6 with a representative sample of 710 young people aged 18 to 30 (quota method).

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