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# **Initial training: your talents of tomorrow are already in our schools.**
**Business & management, sales, tech & AI, multi-specialist: a network of higher education schools present throughout France, accessible through initial training or work-study, from BTS to Master's level, offering state diplomas and RNCP certifications.**
[**Meet our schools**](https://www.actualgroup.com/entreprises/contact)
**+32 000 entreprises font déjà confiance à Actual**
## **You are looking for "work-ready" young people. But they actually need to be trained that way.**
Every year, the same paradox: thousands of graduates enter the market, and you still struggle to recruit. Because a degree doesn't say much about what really matters to you: the ability to do, to integrate, to learn quickly.
The cause is well known: too many training courses remain far from reality, years of theory, little hands-on experience, classes selected based on academic records rather than potential.
We have tackled the problem at its roots: a network of schools that train through practice, with active professional instructors, real projects, and work-study as the gold standard. The result directly benefits you: young people who arrive at your company already knowing how to work and whom you can meet long before recruitment.
[Contact us](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entrerprises/contact)
**BTS → Master's**
all levels, from Bac+2 to Bac+5
**RNCP**
recognized certifications, in both initial training and work-study
**Throughout France**
campuses in mainland France and overseas territories & remote options
**1990**
our schools have been training for over 30 years
**Sound familiar?**
## **Four situations where our schools become your talent pool.**
[Contact us](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entreprises/contact)
**Secure work-study**
### **I want reliable work-study students, not gambles.**
Students selected based on motivation, coached for the workplace, and supported throughout their contract: work-study with our schools reduces the luck factor, on both sides.
**Business & management**
### **My sales & service roles are constantly recruiting**
Sales, management, marketing, HR, banking, real estate: every year, our schools train thousands of students in service sector professions close to your local employment areas.
**Tech & AI**
### **Tech & AI profiles don't exist on the market**
Developers trained 100% through projects, who understand what they code and use AI as a tool, not a shortcut. The most sought-after skill on the market, trained at the source.
**Industry partnership**
### **I want to build my next generation with a school, not just cherry-pick from it.**
Real-life cases, company projects, lectures by your experts, exclusive recruitment: a school partnership transforms your employer brand into a concrete presence among tomorrow's talent.
## **One network, 5 schools, all your jobs of tomorrow**
[**ESUP • Business & Management**
Since 1990, over 2,000 students trained every year, from BTS to Master's level, across 7 campuses (including overseas). Sales, management, marketing, HR, banking, real estate: service roles trained in human-sized classes, through initial training or work-study, with over 1,500 partner companies.](https://esup.fr) [**Holberton School • Tech & AI**
Born in Silicon Valley, accessible without academic prerequisites: a 100% project-based pedagogy that trains developers, AI, big data, and cybersecurity experts from RNCP 5 to RNCP 7. Professionals who truly understand what they do, and whom AI makes faster, not more dependent.](https://www.holbertonschool.fr/) [**iconoClass · Intensive Sales**
Learning the sales profession by living it: a short, intensive format open to all profiles, whether 18 or 43 years old, changing careers or retraining. Work-ready sales professionals, trained by pros, selected based on motivation.](https://www.iconoclass.eu/) [**Open campus · Multi-specialist**
Eight specialized schools in one ecosystem: 98% active professional instructors, immersive pedagogy (real-life cases, business games, flipped classroom), and double-skill profiles. The ones all recruiters are looking for.](https://reseau-opencampus.com/) [**Qwally · Remote CFA**
Work-study accessible everywhere, including to people with disabilities: a remote CFA, backed by the network's physical locations, with personalized support all the way to employment.](https://www.qwally.fr/)
## **Different schools, the same conviction: a profession is learned by living it**
### **Practice first**
Real projects, role-playing, work-study, corporate immersion: our students do, and learn by doing.
### **Instructors who actually do the job**
Active professionals, consultants, executives: you can only teach well what you still practice.
### **Potential over academic record.**
Several of our schools recruit without academic prerequisites, focusing instead on motivation and potential. This is our group conviction applied to education, and a talent pool that others overlook.
### **Employment as the destination.**
Coaching, partner companies, and the group's entire network. Internships, work-study, assignments, recruitment: our students don't just graduate, they leave employable.
### **Host a work-study student or an intern.**
The simplest gateway: a student, a tutor, a contract, and often, a future hire in the making.
### **Submit your real-life cases.**
Company projects, business games, challenges: your business challenges become educational projects, and you get to watch talent in action.
### **Recruit graduates.**
Classes trained in hands-on practice, available every year for your roles and local areas.
### **Build an industry partnership**
Lectures by your experts, co-designed pathways for your professions, priority recruitment: your next generation is trained with you before working for you.
**FAQ**
## **The questions you ask. And our frank answers.**
This is the design criterion for all our schools: project-based learning, active professional instructors, and massive work-study programs. And it can be measured: the integration and success rates of each school are public, updated, and available for consultation. Judge for yourself on the facts, not the brochure.
Yes, all of them: state diplomas (BTS, DCG) validated by ministries, or certified qualifications registered with the RNCP from level 5 to level 7. State recognition, for you as well as for the student, is non-negotiable.
Schools coach their students right up to the signing, and if you [**recruit work-study students in volume**](https://www.actualgroup.com/entreprises/besoins/recruter-en-alternance/), our outsourcing solution takes care of the complete management: sourcing, contracts, OPCO, onboarding. The school trains, the group orchestrates, you welcome.
## A new generation of talent that is no longer a gamble.
### **A talent pool built years in advance**
You meet your future talent during their training. Recruitment becomes a confirmation, not a discovery.
### **Young people who already know how to work**
Trained through practice, mentored by professionals: onboarding is measured in days, not months.
### **A single group, from school to employment**
Initial training, managed work-study, recruitment, student temping: the complete, seamless pathway. This is the advantage that only an employment group can offer.
## **Is your need slightly different?**
Outsourcing the recruitment and administrative management of your work-study students: that is our 'Recruiting on a work-study basis' offer. Training your teams in place: that is professional training.
[Recruiting on a work-study basis](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/companies/needs/recruter-en-alternance) [Professional training](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/companies/needs/formation-professionnelle)
## Your future talents are 20 years old today. You might as well get to know them now.
**In our schools, the connection begins long before recruitment.**
We believe that a job is learned by living it, and that potential matters more than academic records. That is why our schools recruit profiles that others dismiss, train them through practice, and lead them to employment. For you, this changes everything: the next generation is no longer something you just adapt to, it is prepared with you, with us, starting now.
[Contact us](https://www.actualgroup.com/en/entreprises/contact)
**Let's talk about your needs**
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