Combating discrimination in recruitment

We were pleased to welcome Mr. Benjamin Maurice, General Delegate for Employment and Vocational Training and Anne Rubinstein, Interministerial Delegate for the Prevention and Fight Against Poverty, at the offices of the association La Cravate Solidaire Paris.  On this occasion, we also presented La Cravate Solidaire Mobile, a mobile clothing closet that travels through priority neighborhoods under the city’s urban policy and rural areas. The network comprises 32 mobile clothing closets and 8 converted vehicles across 15 employment regions. A significant milestone that recognizes our efforts to help people return to work: Today, 60% of the people we support achieve a positive outcome, with 70% entering employment and 30% enrolling in vocational training.

In 2024, La Cravate Solidaire won the Accessibility Call for Projects launched by the Agence du Service Civique. Over 2024 and 2025, the La Cravate Solidaire network has taken a new step forward by stepping up support for its teams. The aim? To make Civic Service ever more accessible and inclusive. The results of this Call for Projects speak for themselves: 📈 + 37% of volunteers welcomed, i.e. 162 young people committed across the country. 🤝 Inclusion at the heart of the project: 48% of La Cravate volunteers are young people far removed from socio-economic opportunities. But that's not all... tutors have undergone specialized training, and we've also focused on network well-being and bonding through our visio-volunteers and calls. What's next? We're keeping up the momentum! Our main mission: to continue opening up Civic Service to everyone.

🎥✨ Very happy to share this beautiful report broadcast by France Télévisions, which showcases the commitment of La Cravate Solidaire all over France. In this video, we discover what makes our network so strong: committed volunteers, determined candidates, beautiful dressings, and above all great encounters over a coffee, which are experienced every day in our workshops! 👉 Through our associations, we act in the service of a clear mission: "With La Cravate Solidaire, let's build a world of work that resembles us and brings us together. " A big thank you to Fraternité Générale for this spotlight and to all those, volunteers, partners, teams, who bring this solidarity to life on a daily basis. 💼🤝 Let's continue to open doors, restore confidence and build an ever more inclusive working environment!

Mentoring involves a volunteer mentor supporting a candidate in his or her job search over a period of 6 weeks to 6 months. Each year, this scheme helps hundreds of people find their way into employment by giving them advice on how to master the codes of the professional world, and how to regain their self-confidence! 💪 In 2024, 100 mentors were coached with 68% positive outcomes, and 81% found mentoring useful or decisive in accessing their professional project.

Dear difteur-ses, 📣 Great news: La Cravate Solidaire is setting up in Toulouse! 🎉 After several months of feasibility study to assess the needs of the territory, we are happy to announce the creation of a new La Cravate Solidaire association in Toulouse! 🚀 🔍 But before we can accompany, the team needs you!" It's looking for: 🏠 A premises to welcome our future candidate.es and volunteers. 🤝 Committed volunteers to bring this solidarity adventure to life right from the start. ✨ You are in Toulouse and would like to help? 👉 You know of an available space? 👉 You would like to join the adventure as a volunteer? 👉 You would like to donate clothing or equipment? 📩 Contact us : [email protected] A big thank you to you!

Dear difteurs, We had a hard time getting over it! 🤩 Ten years later, we celebrated the social innovation and solidarity boosted by La France s'Engage. The evening was an opportunity for us to look back at the road travelled by La Cravate Solidaire... a road we could never have traced without the support of this visionary program. In 10 years and thanks to La France s'Engage, we can: ✔️ Be present in 14 cities in France, ✔️ Mobilize more than 2,000 passionate and committed volunteers, ✔️ Accompany 14,000 candidates each year towards a return to employment! Today, La Cravate Solidaire is asserting itself as a key player in the last mile of the return to employment, providing jobseekers with much more than a professional outfit: renewed confidence, concrete tools and human accompaniment to get them through the final stretch to success. 💼✨ For the occasion, the entire LCS family was gathered, representing the strength of the network in an inspiring atmosphere to celebrate this collective adventure and salute the immense impact of La France s'engage. A huge thank you to François Hollande, President of the Foundation, to Damien Baldin, Enora Hamon, and to all the La France s'Engage teams for their unwavering vision, support and commitment. 🙏 Finally, well done to all the winners of this decade, especially those who, like us, work for inclusion and solidarity. Together, we continue to transform lives and build a more just and caring society. A big thank you to you, dear difors, for your invaluable support and difts ✨

La Cravate Solidaire works for an inclusive world of work, accompanying candidates towards employment and raising recruiters' awareness of discrimination. It boosts candidates' self-esteem by donating professional outfits and by transmitting corporate codes. Every day, its teams raise awareness and train recruiters directly in companies to eliminate prejudice and change professional practices.   We carried out an impact study in 2023 on a panel of 700 volunteers from the association.  As a matter of fact, La Cravate Solidaire aims to act as much with candidates as with recruiters:  ⅔ of our volunteers raise awareness of hiring discrimination among those around them40% live outside metropolitan areas, ensuring genuine coverage of the French territory50% of the association's volunteers discover volunteering with our association67% of volunteers are active compared with 30% in France, according to INSEE.   ACTING POSITIVELY WITH OUR VOLUNTEERS    80% of HR coaches consider that they have improved their knowledge of the audiences they support53% consider that they have discovered new professions and sectors of activity90% of volunteers consider that the association's training is necessary to support the audiences  MAKING MENTALITIES EVOLVE    73% of the association's volunteers feel they have changed the way they look at the people they support43% feel they have become more aware of discrimination in hiring 47% of our volunteers buy more second-hand and 65% have limited their consumption 65% feel more concerned by the impact of textile overconsumption  A big thank you to all of you for your help!

Dear Captains,  This month we inaugurated our La Cravate Solidaire premises in Marseille, rue Bernard Dubois. The perfect opportunity to bring together teams, volunteers, partners and administrators around inspiring talks and activities linked to the journey of a candidate followed by La Cravate. We wanted to thank you for helping us take this step thanks to your contribution and enabling us to accompany ever more beneficiaries throughout France. Since 2022, the Marseille association represents: 700 people coached on our Coup de Pouce Workshops with 65% positive exit at three months and 78% feel better prepared for interviews;5 tons of clothing collected;about fifty actions undertaken. As a reminder, today there are 14 local associations present all over France, providing plenty of opportunity for rich interactions and great exchanges! And many thanks to La Cravate Solidaire Marseille for this beautiful inauguration!; 

A brief update on our workshops since the start of the year:  Since the start of the year we have welcomed over 4,500 candidates to our Coup de Pouce Workshops across France. Of these candidates, more than half are women, 46% are under 26 and a quarter live in priority neighborhoods.  Our beneficiaries are among the most vulnerable in terms of access to employment, which is why we offer specific workshops such as Coup de Pouce au féminin aimed at women, or mobile workshops to reach out to QPVs. Thank you, dear Captains, for helping to support these candidates, and we'll keep you up to date with our developments in future posts!

Good news! All our candidates are called back after three months following their time at Atelier Coup de Pouce, during which they receive a warm welcome, image coaching accompanied by the gift of a professional outfit, human resources coaching and a professional photo. This call enables us to ensure their follow-up and offer them additional support if needed, such as mentoring, distance coaching, socio-aesthetic workshops... This month, we congratulate Grace, Tony Elodie and Océane who are among those who have been successful in their job search in our Troyes and Pau associations. 65% of our Ateliers Coup de Pouce candidates find a job, training or work-study program within 3 months.  A big thank you to our volunteers who come in to pass on great advice to our candidates with their professional, always benevolent eye!  And of course thanks to our Captains who make these great stories possible thanks to their contributions!