Working in Europe

Working in Rhone Alpes

• Employment by sector of activity in our region

• The French economy is organised into key sectors,

Main developing key sectors

• namely the chemical, biopharmaceutical, automobile, agro-food, aeronautical and spatial industries.

• More recently, the priority has been given to the sector of sustainable development

• Some other high-growth sectors are personal services,

• and the interactive leisure market.

Key figures

Key sectors in Rhone Alpes

• • The country ranks fourth in services

• third in agriculture

• It is the leading producer and exporter of farm products in Europe.

The key sectors

• Agriculture

• Forests

• Energy

• Industry

• Service sector

• Foreign trade

Industry• Leading industrial sectors in France

•   Construction and civil engineering

• Workforce: 1,597,000

•   Agrifood

•   Chemicals

• Workforce: 231,400.

• . •   Fashion and luxury goods

• This sector includes haute couture, jewellery, luxury leather goods, perfumes, cosmetics and fine glassware.

• Workforce: 150 000.

Key sectors• Pharmaceuticals

•   Automotive industry

•   Materials processing (steel, aluminium, glass, plastics, rubber)

•   Telecommunications and information and communication technology

•   Aerospace

• Research and development

• Transport

•   Road network

•   Rail network

•   Merchant fleet Financial services and banking

• Insurance

• Tourism•

Service sector

The interviews

1st partThe conditions in which we

made the interviews

The way we found information

• Most of the interviews were realized on the workplace :

• - in farms near our houses as we live in rural areas,

• - in our local factories (important industrial fabric in Rhone Alpes),

• - in local shops, hospitals, townhalls ..;

Selection of the workers

• Most of the people interviewed were :

• - members of our family • - friends of us ,• - our parents ‘ colleagues,

When were they interviewed ?

• Most of them were interviewed during their working hours or home after work .

The Difficulties to obtain the interviews

• Making sentences with the notes

• No particular difficulties, people were pleased to talk about their job

Did people accept easily to talk about their job ?

• The persons interviews talked easily about :

- The nature of their job,- The working conditions,- The diplomas and experience - The hardness of their work,- Their lack of diplomas,- Their likes and dislikes in the job,

The difficulties we had to cope with

• The people interviewed were not eager to talk about :

• - their salary, people don’t like to talk about it in France,

Their bad conditions of work because they feared to get bad remarks from their boss.

General impression

• People were pleased to be asked for an interview and they gave us many advice :

- to get a good job you need to have diplomas,

-,

• Do you agree ???

• a good job means a good salary

- learning foreign languages could be useful in your job