Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) accompanies its students through a course dedicated to developing their employability during their curriculum. In this context, GEM assigns to Virginie GRAZIANI the task to organise an interactive workshop dedicated to understanding and experimenting the practice of the Assessment Center in order to prepare the french and the international students.

The practice of the Assessment Center to prepare the futur 

The career pole of GEM organized a training workshop, interactive, designed and animated by Apostrof in order to sensitize its students to the practice of the Assessment Center. Indeed, most of the Management school curriculum are likely to realize an Assessment Center during their career. In the current delicate context of Covid, the intervention took place online but the students still got access to role play duos, as well as other fun stimulation exercices that are essential in order to experiment the procedure and its concerns.

“The workshop allowed our students to experiment multiples different role plays and train themself. The ones that participated particularly appreciated this role play and found it very useful. This workshop is a good opportunity and experience for our students to discover the Assessment Center!

With an overall satisfaction rate of 4.2/5 in 2022, 80% of respondents specified that they would recommend your workshop! This is very positive.”

Sabrina ROECKENS, International Career Advisor, GEM

GEM students perform multiple Assessment Centers

Testimonials from the 2023 workshops

“It was amazing! It’s an interesting workshop to test our skills.”

“Very engaging and encouraging. I liked the tests and role play to understand our own behavior during critical situations a lot”

“It was a truly enriching workshop. We had lot of fun. Virginie and Emily gave a lot of feedback”

“It was a good and fun session, it’s nice to see ourselves in situation and how we would react!”

“A very interesting meeting. The Assessment Centre presentation was clear. It was a good and nice experience!”

Testimonials from the 2022 workshops

“It was an amazing experience to get an insight into how to prepare for an Assessment Centre. The advice I got at the workshop was invaluable. I had no idea what an assessment centre was and how it was conducted. This workshop gave me an insight into the origin of assessment centres and how they are conducted today. The activities offered were both fun and informative. I had the opportunity to learn a lot from this workshop.”
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“The simulations are very interesting. It’s a great workshop! I was able to take on different professional roles. It shows us how role-playing works. The session is a great experience for dealing with business matters, like in my future job!”
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“I really enjoyed learning about the evaluation criteria. I also appreciated the feedback from Virginie. It is interesting to have feedback on our own evaluation by a professional. Especially as she also gave us tips on how to handle certain moments differently. The workshop was an excellent evaluation session. I had a great time. I met new people and got to know myself better through students from different communities, which also helped me understand the perspective of different countries”.
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“It was a fun and very rewarding workshop. It helped me to understand what I need to do in a negotiation. This experience highlighted some flaws when I was facing multiple negotiation objectives. I discovered some criteria to evaluate the performance of others. I wish I had known more about this! It is always interesting and useful to know more about how to evaluate others”.
Guanjie LIU ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“The session was rich and fun! I enjoyed the case study role play.”
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Testimonials from the 2021 workshops

“It was a very engaging and interactive experience. Highlighting the right behavior of a manager!!”
Mehdi BOUSSIF ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Overall it was a good experience, but I guess it would be better if there was less participants in the debate .”
Mazen CHAHINE ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“I learned a lot of things about myself”
Rebecca ROGER ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Useful, interesting and challenging”
Gabriele GANZERLA ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“I had fun and it was very interesting knowing what is going on from the side of the recruiter. Having tested the role plays and getting feedback was very nice and for sure useful for future.”
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“Two roles game with 2 people for the first and 11 for the second one. Very instructive and very useful to see how it is in real life”
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“Really interesting experience, I learned a lot how to behaviour during the assessment and how to organise it”
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GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management

Based in Grenobe, the city of innovation, Grenoble Ecole de Management capitalised the triptych of performance form Grenoble : technologies, science and economy. Since its creation back in 1984, the school has distinguished herself by integrating in its informations a visionary concept : the Management of Technology and Innovation (MTI).

This positioning highly locally anchored has conferred GEM to become in 30 years a national champion in management training, with close to 8000 students, 12 training sites worldwide, 2500 foreign students and prestigious partners like MIT, Columbia as well as Cambridge.

Accredited by major international labels like ESQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, GEM is part of the 20 best business European schools according to Financial Times.

Its mission is to accompany the companies performances by providing skills, knowledge as well as talents that are adapted to actual and futur economical concerns. Three major values animate the institution : excellence, entrepreneurship and engagement. 

Thus, Grenoble Ecole de Management is an entrepreneur school, turned to innovation, to the services of compagnies that formes and qualifies students that are capable of fulfilling the compagnies’s needs and particularly to adapt themself to competitive environment and technologies that are in constant evolution. 

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Explore how an individual will perform in the future : Discover our Assessment Center based on simulation of a professional environment.

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