Job opportunities

Paris 2024 pledges to boost employment and equal opportunities

Paris 2024 and its partners have pledged to set an example and raise the bar, thereby creating a legacy that will be passed down to all other sporting events held in France as well as future editions of the Games. This ambition is reflected in our social charter, which sets out 16 core commitments. Signed by all unions and employer representatives, it compels us to put social considerations at the heart of everything we do. Paris 2024, Solideo (the company tasked with delivering the Olympic facilities), businesses, local and regional authorities and social partners are all focused on getting people onto promising career paths, safeguarding quality jobs and promoting favourable working conditions. This new approach entails working hand in hand with other stakeholders and forms the foundation for how we wish to organise the Games.

Once a quarter, a Steering Committee comes together to ensure our commitments are being upheld and brought to life.

As the first Olympics in history to achieve gender parity on the field of play, we want to ensure gender equality remains a central feature of all major sporting events going forward. Paris 2024 intends to become the first body organising the Games to receive the new state-awarded level playing field label; the label sets a new benchmark for all future sporting events to achieve gender parity at every level, from volunteers to executives and from the first organisation meeting to the final medal ceremony.

Paris 2024: Taking action to boost the job market and training opportunities

Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games can act as a catalyst to drive momentum in the domestic economy and job market, creating over 150,000 jobs across three major industries that were all heavily hit by the pandemic. The Games offer a powerful springboard for many sectors, as well as for the people already working in those professions and those looking to take the baton from them. In close collaboration with our partners, recruitment organisations, training organisations and reintegration bodies, we want to ensure all these jobs and careers are open to anyone who wishes to take their chance, especially those who are most in need. We are all pursuing the same objective to leverage the Games to make the event a turning point for all those involved and help people consolidate their experience, no matter how many years they have behind them.

To ensure the Games benefit people in long-term unemployment, we need to anticipate and prepare for all the opportunities the event creates. This is exactly the approach Paris 2024 has been taking since 2019, working in tandem with skills bodies, economic sectors, and public unemployment organisations.We took a groundbreaking approach to assess the long-term needs for jobs and skills to guarantee safe, professional, and stable jobs for the people involved.

Mapping jobs, opportunities and training courses

Back in 2019, Paris 2024 tasked Amnyos and the Centre de Droit et d’Economie du Sport with drawing up the first-ever exhaustive list of jobs, opportunities and training courses generated by a major sporting event. The study identified nearly 150,000 job opportunities, which now appear in the Paris 2024 Games job map drawn up for the skills and employment development plan for major sporting and cultural events. The map covers the struggling sectors that the Games and high-growth sectors will stimulate. It presents a genuine toolbox for recruitment, reintegration, and vocational training organisations.

EMPLOIS 2024: A platform collating all Games-related job offers

EMPLOIS 2024 is supported by the French unemployment agency Pôle emploi and all Paris 2024 partners. The platform was established to connect businesses with candidates to fill the many opportunities created by Paris 2024. Designed as a one-stop shop, the platform also provides jobseekers with any training materials they may require.

Enabling middle school and high school children to start their careers with the Games

In 2024, an entire generation will enter the job market! To help them find fulfilling careers, the Greater Paris region launched an operation in 2019 called “1,000 work experience positions at the Olympic and Paralympic Games” to enable 15-year-olds to gain insight into Games-related careers. Between now and 2024, a further 1,000 students from the Lycée Marcel-Cachin, a sixth-form college in Saint Ouen, will receive training in the careers involved in organising the Games.

Harnessing the Games as a springboard to employment and professional reintegration

We want to connect with anyone who feels the Games are not for them and help their talent and skills blossom. Alongside its partners, Paris 2024 supports local jobs and offers everyone opportunities to get into training or find a job that is both stable and well-suited to their aspirations.

• The Greater Paris region deployed more than 11,000 places for in-person and online training courses as part of the Regional investment agreement to help people acquire new skills and learn English (QIOZ platform).
• For the past three years, Paris City Council has pursued the action plan EnJeux emplois, which has offered certified training programmes to around 1,000 people.
• Solideo adopted a charter to promote local employment and community development, which included a clause stipulating 10% of jobs should be reserved for professional reintegration.
• In 2019, the Plaine Commune combined authority and the Paris City Council developed “2024: We’re all champions!” to offer long-term support to people who have been out of work for a significant time.
• The members of the 100% inclusion consortium are also in the starting blocks, ready to share the Games with the entire community in Seine-Saint-Denis at the heart of the Olympic Village and the events. Working to reintegrate people into the active population, the non-profit APART is enabling young people in the Seine-Saint-Denis area to connect with local businesses. The Pass’Sport pour l’Emploi non-profit set up by chef Thierry Marx and 1992 European judo champion Benoît Campargue helps young people who have dropped out of education to get back on track by harnessing sport to find a job and a career.

Supporting girls to succeed in priority neighbourhoods

After winning the first round of Impact 2024 (an international call for projects), the “Demain avec Elles” project operated by the non-profit Sport dans la Ville has been involved in helping young people from priority neighbourhoods in Paris into the world of work. The “Demain avec Elles” project harnesses sport to tap into the potential of girls and help them become the leaders of tomorrow. Sport dans la Ville joined forces with the French Basketball Federation (FFBB) and the French Handball Federation (FFHandball) to pursue three objectives: get girls into sport, create connections between young people in sports clubs and the federal movement and make it easier for women and girls to take on positions of responsibility in the worlds of sport and work.