Salut Youtube!
Today I want to talk to you about my biggest life hack to date
which changed my life forever which was coming to study in France in
English for free. That just sounded really scammy and no this is not a scam
don't worry I will not be asking for your credit card details
So in this video I wanted to share all the juicy details of how I came to study in France
for free and how I also earned an income on the side as I did so so that you can
do exactly the same!
So let me take you all the way back to 2013 when I was googling away trying to
find jobs here in Europe and what I was noticing is that a lot of the
entry-level roles were asking for a master's degree which I didn't have at
the time, I had studied for only four years not the five that are required to
achieve a master's degree.
In new zealand all you need is a bachelor's degree
because basically it's just seen as your ticket to get into a company but
everyone kind of knows that the academic world doesn't really translate to the
real world and the working world and so it's kind of good enough - it proves
that you can learn, it proves that you've got a good work ethic, and the rest is going
to be determined on your eagerness to learn, your hunger to do well and a
positive attitude.
A master's degree is totally unnecessary to get into the job
market unless you do medicine or pharmacy or something like that
But the more research I did, the more I realized that it was becoming the norm for
students in Europe to go straight from their bachelor's onto their master's
degrees to be able to enter the working world
So anyway it got me thinking
that I could still get to Europe but I just have to study first
It was going to be a great way to meet new people, a great way to build a network and start
getting those sort of more professional contacts for when I'm starting to job
hunt and of course as a non EU citizen it's a really easy way to get a visa to
get into Europe.
So I'm in HR (Human Resources) and so I started googling
International Human Resources master's programs
Europe in English and basically in the top few results came my program which
was based in Paris which is the international human resources master's
program at CIFFOP which is a private school within the Sorbonne / Panthéon Assas
University Network and I remember looking at the website and being like
what is this?!
1: Study international human resources in English in Paris
2: Work part-time while studying with a big international company
3: You will have zero tuition fees and
4: You will earn a monthly salary while
you're working for the company part-time even while you're at school studying
like what's the catch? Am I gonna have to work for the
company for 10 years after finishing my studies? Am I going to form part of an
international student human trafficking cult?
But it turns out that this is
actually a relatively common thing on offer here in France
So basically France has this thing called the Apprentissage or Alternance
system or Apprenticeship system I guess in English and what it means is that you
can do your year of study so whether that is your third year of your
bachelor's degree or the first year of your masters or the second year of your
masters - whatever - and you can do it in a way that allows you to study part-time and work
part-time. So I had a 12-month master's program because I had already studied
for four years beforehand and what that meant concretely is that I spent the
first 10 weeks at school studying learning the content and sitting exams
and then I would be in the company for work for two weeks and then back at
school for one week work for two weeks back at school for one week etc and then
you finish up basically doing your last sort of four to six months full-time
with the company and during this time you write your master's thesis and it's
a professional master's thesis for the company so it's based on the real world
and a real practical case study in your work environment
And there are many many
schools and universities in France offering this kind of apprenticeship way
of studying. So not only is it an amazing way to get professional experience of
course and start to build your network on that side but it also allows you to
directly apply what you're learning in theory in your courses straight away
into the real world
And of course there are some of these more financial benefits
So firstly the company pays your school fees or
whatever remains of them after the government has subsidized them
For me personally my school fees were around 10 000 euros and I didn't have to
see a single euro of that I didn't have to pay anything upfront it was
completely taken care of by my company
Secondly the company will pay you a
monthly salary for those full 12 months of study even when you're at school so
even though I was at school for the first ten weeks I was earning a monthly
salary that enabled me to pay all of my living costs here in France
The amount you get will depend on things like your level of studies and your age but there
are legal minimums so for example if you're in at least your third year of
studies and you're 21 years old or older you are entitled to around 1154 euros
per month and that's in 2017 and that works out to
be around 78 percent of the minimum wage but there are plenty of companies
as well especially the bigger ones that will pay you at least a hundred percent
of the minimum wage
I personally was earning the minimum wage while I was
studying which worked out to be around 1,500 euros per month at the time so
even though you live a relatively frugal lifestyle you can still pay for
everything you need to your rent your food your bills etc completely independently
Another huge advantage to the system is that you are considered
like a legal employee which means that you get the same benefits as other
employees in France so this means for example you get the same annual leave
benefits and in France annual leave is five weeks paid per year
And because you're
considered like an employee you also get other advantages for example your
company pays for 50% of your transport per month and they subsidize your
lunches that you eat every day
So you may be thinking like I
was why would companies offer such a sweet deal to students in the Apprentissage
system? And it turns out that they kind of have to because if you're a
private company earning over a certain threshold you are obliged by law to have
a certain number or quota of positions within your company to offer to these
students to support the French education system
Thank You French Government!
Secondly it's not perhaps as expensive as it seems upfront because they get a
lot of tax breaks and refunds from the things that they pay for for us
including our tuition fees so it's not that bad compared to what you see on
paper and if you think about it they're still actually getting really cheap
labor because they're paying these people minimum wage and they're kind of
profiles who have been studying for five years now, they've usually got one to two
years of internship experiences behind them on average and they're doing the
equivalent often of kind of entry-level jobs even if that's not really meant to
be the case.
So that's it the only thing to keep in mind aside from finding a
study program that offers this Apprentissage system is making sure that it's offered
in the language that you understand so I personally search for a program in
English but of course they offer the programs in French as well so if you're
speaking French, lucky you, and the other thing to keep in mind is that you do
need to be 26 years old or less to benefit from the system and if you are
older than 26 there are other options, so there are paid internships, there are
professional contracts and I won't go into the details in this video but there
are sort of other options out there as well so it's still super interesting
I'll never forget that moment when I saw the email in my inbox saying 'Welcome to the
International Human Resources Master - Congratulations!' I just saw that subject
line and I flipped out I started jumping on the bed, I was trembling
it was hard to explain, but when you're from little New Zealand which is so so
far away from what seems the rest of the world and you're from a family that's
never really travelled...To think that I was moving to Paris to study just blew
my mind that was probably one of the happiest days of my life
So anyway guys
that was my little secret to studying in France or in Paris for free in English
Basically you're looking for a program that's offered in English and has an
Apprentissage component or an apprenticeship offer that goes alongside it
Of course you can always find normal study programs as well the universities
in France are usually pretty cheap 400 to 600 euros I think on average for
their tuition fees but I think that the Apprentissage system is pretty special
and just so win-win all around and so convenient that I would 10 out of 10 recommend
So that's all for this week guys, thank you for watching!
I hope that
was useful for some of you Internauts out there!
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a video on what it's really like to study in France in a lot more detail
than this, but until then - à bientôt!
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