Integration into the civil service and the corporate world

This book looks at professional integration into the civil service and private enterprise in Burkina Faso through the job search methods used by young graduates. To positively influence public employment policies, this book shows that graduates prefer formal job search methods (market procedures and competitive examinations), as well as the networking channel. Thus, 31.10% of graduate jobseekers use networking as a job prospecting method. Graduates also use recruitment channels to enter the banking and insurance sector (35.20%), the retail sector (34.40%), the mining and quarrying sector (20.20%) and the civil service (10.20%). In addition, using a multinomial Logit model, the study found that as the level of education increased, individuals tended to use all recruitment channels simultaneously to find employment in the civil service, banking and insurance, mining and trade.