IAE Paris Sorbonne

Each year, the IAE Paris Sorbonne trains hundreds of students in management and management professions. His degrees are renowned for their academic excellence, but a major challenge remained: how to prepare students for a professional world where human skills matter as much as technical skills?
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‍After several years marked by educational changes (including distance learning), students sometimes showed weaknesses in communication, adaptability or collaboration. Recruiters, for their part, expressed their demand more and more clearly: beyond knowledge, it's soft skills that make the difference.
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The challenge for the IAE was therefore twofold:
* objectifying soft skills students with a reliable tool,
* adapt its pedagogical support based on these results, to strengthen the employability and confidence of its graduates.

The IAE Paris Sorbonne chose Rising Up because our approach met precisely this need.

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Three elements were decisive:
1. A proven scientific method : a test based on 5 years of research in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence, designed in collaboration with international research laboratories.
2. A unique repository : 25 soft skills identified as the most strategic for success in the world of work, structured and linked to the concrete expectations of employers.
3. A simple and engaging platform : a 100% online experience that is intuitive for students, fluid for teaching teams, without technical or logistical complexity.

In summary, Rising Up brought a turnkey solution : measure, understand and value soft skills in a rigorous but accessible way.

The implementation was done quickly. After initial framing with the teaching team, the students received their access to online soft skills test.
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With just a few clicks, they could start their assessment directly from their computer or smartphone.
* On the student side : the experience was clear and motivating. The digital, short (1 hour) and personalized format encouraged a strong commitment from the start.
* On the teacher side : all monitoring was centralized on the platform. They could visualize participation rates, track progress, and access early results without adding to their workload.
* Technical side : no obstacles or integration problems. The test works in SaaS, with the possibility of SSO, which simplified access and avoided any IT difficulties.

The test made it possible to obtain a accurate and usable photography transversal promotional skills.

The individual reports gave each student a clear vision of:
* his strengths, to be highlighted in your applications (CV, cover letters, interviews),
* his areas of progress, identified in a constructive manner and accompanied by practical recommendations,
* the correspondence between his current skills and his professional goals.

At the collective level, the teachers were able to analyze:
* general promotion trends (common strengths, recurring shortcomings),
* the most critical soft skills to be strengthened,
* the differences between market expectations and the average level observed.

This double reading (individual and collective) allowed the IAE toadjust its educational content and to support students in a more targeted manner.

For the students, the contribution was immediate. In one hour they got a clear, visual and personalized report on their behavioral skills. Concretely, this allowed them to:
* Get to know each other better : understand their natural strengths and areas of progress.
* Gain confidence : knowing that they already have valuable skills.
* Improving their employability : identify the soft skills that are in demand in their sector and learn how to promote them.
* Preparing for interviews : have concrete examples and objective scores to support their responses to recruiters.

Some even used the report directly to enrich their resumes and applications, strengthening their differentiation in a competitive market.

For the IAE, this project represented a major advance in the valorization of your diploma.
* Teachers now have clear dashboards, which allow them to monitor the progress of promotions and identify common needs.
* The school can demonstrate to its business partners that its students are trained and evaluated on skills aligned with the realities of the labor market.
* The integration of Rising Up strengthened the credibility and attractiveness of the IAE with future students, by showing that it is innovating in the field of behavioral skills.

In summary, the soft skills test has become a strategic lever to link the academic framework to the business references.

We had taken the time to research and assess the best solution for the needs of the students and ours. We wanted a solution that guaranteed the quality of the experience and the precision of the results. In addition, the goals and vision of Rising Up seemed to us to be very much in line with those of our university, guaranteeing excellence to enable them to develop an exceptional career.

Also, we understood that Rising was focusing a lot on the development of their product and was continuing to develop the tool. It was really important for us. We felt that with Rising Up, the platform would always be improved.

The rising up team was also very flexible and adapted to all our constraints, for this we think we have made the best choice of company to allow us to innovate in our educational practices.