I’ve always been an EDHEC Resource.

While I was still studying at EDHEC, in January 2018, I co-founded the EDHEC association Inspiring Women, which combats gender inequality and encourages our female students to target exceptional careers in sectors where women are sometimes under-represented. I was also nominated EDHEC Ambassador to promote its Grande Ecole programme at SAGE (trade fair for Grandes Ecoles) and the fair organised by L’Etudiant. Since graduating, I have continued to be closely involved in the network. During the Covid crisis, it was very difficult for students to find pre-masters internships, so I recruited some via the EDHEC Career Centre for my training centre IJSchool, which specialises in office skills and foreign languages. And beginning in 2024, I will have the huge pleasure of being one of the jury panel members for the entrance exam to the EDHEC Grande Ecole programme to select this wonderful school’s future students. 

Finally, I always respond warmly to any requests I receive from associations. I will continue to invest in the network of graduates because I feel a particular sense of attachment to EDHEC. After leaving secondary school, I tried several courses but it was only upon arriving at EDHEC that I finally felt I had found my place and my path. 

EDHEC has always enabled me to seize wonderful professional opportunities, both upon graduation, when I received two offers of permanent positions in the middle of the Covid pandemic as others were struggling to find work, and in the world of entrepreneurship, where I didn’t need to oversell myself to acquire new contracts. I would very much love to create an “Alumni” version of the EDHEC association Inspiring Women, which I set up in Lille, and become more familiar with the entrepreneurs at EDHEC. But, generally speaking, I will always play an active role with EDHEC students and the graduate network.

Inès JAZAERLI (EDHEC Master 2020)