Guidance and student success

Because the right guidance is the key to success, the USMB has developed a wide range of resources to help all its students choose the right academics, the right paceacademics traditionalacademics or sandwich courses) and the right environment. The SUIO-IP is at your side to guide and support you in your orientation and professional integration.

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The University Diploma - My New Project

This scheme is aimed at students in L1 or BUT1 who don't feel at home in their initial academics and would like to reorient themselves towards an academics more suited to their needs.

It's a supervised, professionalizing program. 

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  • Helping you build a new personal and professional project,
  • Reinforce fundamental skills (French, English, digital, methodology),
  • Develop autonomy, interpersonal skills and cross-disciplinary competencies,
  • Facilitate integration into a new academics or professional life.
  • Group workshops and individual interviews to build a concrete project,
  • Enhanced practical skills (communication, digital tools, languages),
  • Practical experience through internships, job surveys and immersions in targeted training courses,
  • Personalized support, right through to Parcoursup.

personalized support

The guidance counsellors in the career guidance and integration service are there to help you build your plans ( academics courses, reorientation, personal and professional projects) as soon as you arrive at university.

Confidential one-to-one interviews are available on all 3 campuses (remote on request). Our career advisors will guide and support you as you build your academic and professional project. They'll help you define your goals and a strategy for achieving them.

An interview with a guidance counsellor will give you the best chance of succeeding in your career! 

  • Find out about existing training courses
  • Discover the jobs that suit you
  • Get to know your interests, skills and personality
  • Define a project for further study
  • Defining a reorientation project

reorienting

You're taking your first steps at university and trying your hand at an academics course. You find that your chosen academics or study format doesn't suit you.

Think of a career change as a new beginning! It's an opportunity to take a step back. It can be a rich learning experience that can help you get to know yourself better and open you up to new perspectives.

  1. What do I like/dislike about my current academics ?
  2. Where do my difficulties come from?
  3. Do I have a professional project or an idea for a project?
  4. What are my strengths?
  5. What framework do I need to succeed?
  6. Who can I talk to about my project?
  7. What can I do right away to prepare for my reorientation?

 

To meet with our guidance counselors, you need to make an appointment. You can choose between face-to-face, distance or telephone sessions.

You can contact us by mail service.orientation@univ-smb.fr or by phone: 04 79 75 94 83

When a face-to-face appointment is scheduled, here are the different locations where you will be welcomed on each campus:

Annecy-le-Vieux campus 

Building 3B, ferme du Bray annex (behind the BU)

Bourget du Lac Campus

Building 10, first floor (below BU)

Jacob-Bellecombette Campus 

Building 20 EVE

Student success coaches

You are in 1era, 2th or 3rdrd Are you experiencing difficulties in your studies (organization, orientation, well-being at university...)?

Come and meet the Accompagnateurs à la Réussite Étudiante (ARE) on your campus to set up customized support !

Throughindividual interviews andworkshops workshopsour team support on issues such as methodology of university work (MTU), theintegration and discovery of the student profession.

To meet the student success advisor for your field of study, please make an appointment by e-mail or telephone via this list.

You can also contact them at

  • Via your course director
  • By e-mail, to the Réussite étudiante address
  • In the offices of the orientation service, building 10 on the Le Bourget campus 

customized workshops

To give you every chance of succeeding in your university project, the career guidance and placement service organizes themed workshops specially designed for you, whatever your field of study, throughout the year.

Don't hesitate to consult the Campus Calendar to find the one that's right for you!

Accessible to all students whatever your field of studyBOOST workshops, organized remotelygive you the keys to get your bearings easily and help you throughout the year.

To discover the workshop themes, consult the Campus Agenda !

You don't like your current course of study and would like to change direction, but don't know what or how? Take part in one of our orientation and reorientation workshops!

Take this opportunity to learn more about how the parcousup and MonMaster platforms work.

Each workshop is limited to 20 people, to guarantee quality exchanges with the speaker.

  • Improve concentration,
  • Perfect your organization for revision,
  • Improve your speaking skills,
  • Improve note-taking,
  • Stress management, etc.

A host of workshops await you to boost your student success!

promote success

The Fondation université Savoie Mont Blanc supports your projects and your career paths to enhance your success.

Excellence awards for athletes, doctors, artists and citizens.
These awards recognize exceptional effort, excellence, ambition and quality of achievement by students. One winner per category receives a prize of €1,500.

Mobility support

Student mobility is a unique experience that opens up academic, cultural and professional horizons. Yet for some students, financial constraints can represent a major obstacle to this opportunity.

This is why, in collaboration with the social services, the Foundation supports students in precarious situations in their academic success. It finances all costs associated with student mobility as part of their studies.

Application forms can be downloaded from the Fondation USMB websitebetween December and March each year .

Useful resources

What jobs are accessible with a university degree? Which sectors recruit these young graduates? Which jobs? With what status? And for what salary?

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