The phenomenon of “differers”, these graduates from major schools who radically change path

2023-11-04 06:57:46

“Those around me had a lot of trouble accepting it. Sometimes I still wonder if I made the right choice. But in the end, I am very happy,” confides Jean-Antoine Cech, 23 years old. This former student of Emlyon, a management school, became a chef in Paris. He was more destined for management positions, not so much to be behind the stove. Like him, an increasingly large proportion of young people from major schools (engineering, business, political studies institutes) are turning away, as soon as they graduate, from the professions for which they were preparing.