Already one full year…

Yann Couvreur’s cake to celebrate our first year! ©TD

And, yes, we are blowing the candles of the first year of Talent Developer!
A first year full of challenges and pitfalls… but full of beautiful encounters and some surprises too! What more can be said than what millions of lines and billions of words in the world have already said about this last year? You really had to be crazy to launch your activity, in connection with the hotel and restaurant industry, in the middle of Covid… Well yes, but the team of wonderwomen from Talent Developer, made up of Estrella Maillet and Philippine Freiman, were able to take up the challenge! So Happy first birthday Talent Developer… and to many others!

Being present on all fronts to reach students and give them a unique experience!

Talent Developer is continuing its deployment in France and abroad to make its placement offer known to trainees and apprentices, with its customised service. The team has grown and now welcomes Lior, a business apprentice, who dreams of developing new markets in Israel, Japan and the USA… a godsend for the company, which hopes to continue to introduce Parisian hotels and gastronomy to students and graduates from around the world.
This autumn, Talent Developer has continued to multiply its partnerships with training centers in France and abroad. To the schools in Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico, other countries in Central and Latin America, and also Switzerland have now been added!
Estrella and Philippine dream of going to all the schools to present Talent Developer’s services and participate in Career Fairs, but this year, “we will only travel to Switzerland, and for the other countries, we will be present but remotely” comments Estrella. The duo has also launched a new coaching offer for young graduates and is offering a discount until the end of the month! Let’s hear it…

Convincing schools before reaching students

In France, “finding training centers is much more complicated than abroad”, Lior confides. After a month’s experience, she has already noticed that there are two worlds: France and the others! The outsourcing of the placement service (complete or partial) is very difficult to put in place… no doubt because of the lack of knowledge of the offer but also because of the innovative nature of the service that the Talent Developer team proposes. As a matter of fact, Estrella remembers, when she was a hotel manager, the group’s management asked her to outsource the cleaning service. “I was at war with the company at the time”, she confides. “I didn’t know how this type of company worked and keeping the service in-house seemed ideal to me in order to have all the cards in my hand and to control all the stages”, however, as Jean de la Fontaine said so well, “Each to his own and the cows will be well looked after”, calling on a company specialising in its field of activity often proves to be a solution that is advantageous to everyone!
Today, no one questions the advantages of this type of service or company.
Operations Director Philippine comments: “We met a management program manager who was very involved with her students and was delighted to meet us and was quick to pass on our details to her students who were still searching”, but this is a drop in the ocean compared to all the automatic negative responses.
The aim of Talent Developer is therefore to show that their services are not intended to endanger the training centre’s employee but rather to support him or her in order to provide the best possible service to the students and enable them to access a network and a field of competence to which they would not otherwise have access. Few education professionals understand this, however…
“A school cannot have a network in fashion, travel agencies, cars, real estate and insurance… it is not possible,” Estrella explains.
The schools place students in the offers they receive, without taking into account the field in which the candidates will actually want to work.
In fact, the same program manager admitted to us that they even place students in funeral parlours… not very sexy for a first professional experience, even if they are certain that they will never be short of work!
What if these schools had a privileged partner specialising in each sector of activity?
Talent Developer is a privileged partner in the hospitality and gastronomy sector, in all departments: operational or support.
The student will be accompanied in a personalised way so that the bet is win-win!