Each admitted student to IKSEM is provided paid contractual employment for one year with a French company. The Centre de Formation par l’Apprentissage, CFA-AFIA, co-ordinates the relationship between the University, the companies and IKSEM students. As part of this, it assists students in finding employment. In order to get contractual employment, students might need a Temporary Work permit , depending of their country

• European Students

Students from the European Union (EU), the Swiss Confederation (SC) or the European Economic State (EEC: Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) do not need a Work Permit. As an exception however, citizens from Bulgaria and Romania still need a Temporary Work Permit. However, the process to obtain it is a simplified one. It will be carried out after arrival in France with the help of the University upon admission of the student in the IKSEM Masters. You don’t need to do anything before coming to Paris.

• Non European Students

Non European students must obtain a Temporary Work Permit after arrival in France on a student visa. The process is simplified for students having an admission in a Masters programme in the ‘apprentissage’ mode (e.g. IKSEM case). However, the constraint is that the student cannot be a ‘first-migrant’: he cannot enter France for the purpose of this training and must have been student in France before that.

In order to obtain the temporary work permit, the student will be guided by the IKSEM secretariat. The following documents are usually required:

• passport with a student’s visa,
• a certificate proving the admission in the IKSEM Masters programme (provided by the University),
• a copy of the “apprentissage” contract of the French employing Company.