"We never forget that we belong to a community. therefore, we maintain an active relationship with educational institutions to promote the entry of students into the workplace and to develop opportunities for partnerships between the corporate and academic worlds.
School relations are at the core of our recruitment and integration policy for new graduates. We strive to introduce students to the diversity of our business through various activities including forums, teaching partnerships, training, job offers, etc."
Rocio Mendez Aleman
Recruitment & Mobility, Corporate Executive Director
Forums: meeting our future co-workers
You want to know more about bioMérieux. You’re wondering about the company’s career paths. You would like to learn about the geographic and professional mobility that we offer.
Come see us at one of the student forums that we participate in. We attend them on a regular basis to meet students and to maintain visible relationships with institutions for higher education.
We will introduce you to our company and the career options bioMérieux can provide. Following are some of the themes most frequently covered:
- our business’ scope,
- our business environment,
- our recruitment procedure (internships or jobs),
- entry-level positions,
- possibilities for career development.
We also get an opportunity to highlight our unique corporate identity: both family-owned and global. Discussions with our managers at the forums are open and lively.
Partnerships: a long-term commitment
As a corporate citizen, bioMérieux is committed to integrating new graduates into the workforce. We play a role in the communities surrounding our sites by supporting local schools.
The partnerships that we establish may be varied but all share a long-term investment in both the schools and their students.
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Partnership between INSA Lyon and bioMérieux: an obvious choice
31,000 INSA engineers throughout the world
About 1,000 graduates each year
“The relationship between INSA Lyon (France) and bioMérieux goes back a long way and Dr. Charles Mérieux was at the origin of the Biosciences Department when the school was founded in 1957. Since that time, the department has trained over 1,200 engineers who work in a wide range of scientific fields. Twenty-some engineers from the Biosciences Department alone work at bioMérieux today and three to four students from the department participate every year in internships lasting from 6 to 18 months.
The Biochemistry Association (ABIL – Association of Biochemists and Biocomputer Specialists of INSA Lyon) initiated a partnership between the 2011 graduating class and bioMérieux. Signed at the end of 2008, it covers the cost of integration weekends and university exchange programs and provides job interview simulations and exploratory visits of the company.
bioMérieux thus benefits from a privileged access to our students who, aware of the field of healthcare and companies’ expectations, are given internship and job opportunities. The experience shared by bioMérieux employees get our students’ careers off to a great start.”
Philippe Lejeune, head of the INSA BioSciences Department
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bioMérieux internships: real job experience
By opening our doors every year to hundreds of interns throughout the world, we are upholding one of our guiding Principles: ”We belong to a community”. Interns acquire significant professional experience. They work on well-defined projects, in which they are given responsibilities and hands-on experience.
Since the internship is often the student’s first contact with a recruitment process, we treat these applicants as if we were recruiting them for a job. The interns are also part of a talent pool that we tap into when recruiting for a new position.
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Audrey Convers, 23 years old, is working on a Master 2 degree, "Management and Human Resources Development" at the Institut de Gestion Sociale of Lyon (France). She is doing a 14-month work-study internship at the company’s headquarters in Marcy l’Etoile (France).
“I was recruited as a Human Resources assistant in the Recruitment and HR Development department. My role is mainly very hands-on, helping my manager with her recruitment responsibilities. It ranges from interview scheduling to explaining the outcome to applicants. I am also responsible for communicating information to the organizations and partners that we work with (employment agencies, executive search agencies, schools, …) and for contributing to the department’s various projects.
My integration into the company was simple because I rapidly met my colleagues who had all been informed of my arrival. Thanks to this year of training, I now have a deep professional network. I also have a better understanding of the impact that HR has on the company’s global strategy.”
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