Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35

What Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35 does

Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35 is a French nonprofit association (Association Loi 1901, SIRET 411.872.666.000.10, Code APE 9499Z) founded in 1997 that delivers free, proximity-based employment assistance to residents and employers across five communes in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany: Chantepie, Corps-Nuds, Nouvoitou, Saint-Armel, and Vern-sur-Seiche. The organization operates as a two-sided local labor-market intermediary, providing individualized counseling to job seekers — including CV preparation, interview simulations, training-project support, and professional reorientation — and assisting local employers (small businesses and individual employers) with recruitment needs, from job-offer posting and dissemination to direct candidate matching. It also offers CESU (Chèque Emploi Service Universel) administrative support for individual employers and runs a calendar of community events (forums, job dating sessions, company visits, and "cafés conseils") to facilitate direct employer-job seeker encounters.

The association has no proprietary technology platform. Service delivery is fundamentally in-person and human-counselor-driven, anchored by six employees including two Conseillères en Insertion Professionnelle (one site lead in Vern-sur-Seiche, one site lead in Chantepie, plus one rotating counselor). The organization operates from two physical sites: its registered headquarters at 37 rue de Châteaubriant in Vern-sur-Seiche, and a secondary site at 101 A Avenue André Bonnin in Chantepie. A basic website (paesudest-35.fr) publishes job offers, hosts a digital-access workspace for job seekers, and provides intake forms for employer job postings and company visit requests; dissemination is also carried out via social networks and partner employment-training organizations.

Its business model is that of a publicly subsidized municipal service rather than a revenue-generating enterprise. All services are provided free of charge to both job seekers and employers, and the entire operating budget is funded by subsidies from the five member communes. Governance is exercised by a 24-member Board of Administration (Conseil d'Administration) composed of elected officials from the member communes, partners, and volunteers, with the President being the Mayor of Corps-Nuds and Vice-Presidents being the Mayors of the other four communes. The organization competes not on commercial differentiation but on its institutional anchoring, its 27-year accumulation of local employer and job-seeker relationships, and its role as a trusted neutral intermediary within a defined geographic territory.

Name

Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35

Legal name

Point Accueil Emploi Sud Est 35

Website

https://paesudest-35.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35 is a French nonprofit association founded in 1997 that delivers free, in-person employment support services — including job search assistance, CV and interview coaching, and employer matching — to job seekers and local employers across five communes in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Vern-sur-Seiche

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Communal Subsidies: Association subsidized by 5 communes (Chantepie, Corps-Nuds, Nouvoitou, Saint-Armel, and Vern-sur-Seiche). This is the primary source of funding as an intercommunal association loi 1901.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35 is a nonprofit intercommunal association that provides free, in-person employment assistance services to residents and local employers of five communes in Brittany, France. Its core offering includes individualized job search support for candidates (CV preparation, interview simulation, training and reorientation guidance) and recruitment matching services for local employers, complemented by CESU administrative assistance for private employers, a free digital access space, and regular community employment events.

Product overview

Point Accueil Emploi Sud-Est 35 operates as a single integrated service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering consists of employment assistance services for both job seekers (individualized support, job search, training guidance) and employers (recruitment support, job posting services). Additional services include a free digital access space, CESU assistance for private employers, and local employment events (forums, job dating, company visits) that connect the two user groups. All services are provided free of charge to residents of the five supported communes: Chantepie, Corps-Nuds, Nouvoitou, Saint-Armel, and Vern-sur-Seiche.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Job Seeker Support Services Individualized, free-of-charge employment support services for job seekers residing in the five communes, including local job offer proposals, employer introductions, CV preparation, mock interviews, and training project guidance from conception to execution.
• Employer Recruitment Support Free recruitment support for local employers in the five communes, covering needs definition, job offer posting on website and social networks, direct candidate matching, organization of company visits, and participation in employment events.
• CESU Administrative Assistance Free administrative support for individual employers (Particuliers Employeurs) with CESU (Chèque Emploi Service Universel) procedures, including CESU account creation and employee declaration assistance.
• Employment Events Program Regular local employment events organized by the association, including Forum emploi/formation (employment and training fairs), job dating sessions, company visits, and cafés conseils (informal advice sessions), designed to facilitate direct encounters between job seekers and local employers.
• Digital Access Space Free-access digital space available at PAE sites for job seekers to conduct employment-related procedures and online job searches, including internet access for Pôle Emploi procedures.

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Employment and Training PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner organizations in employment and training sector that receive job offers from the Point Accueil Emploi for wider dissemination to job seekers in their networks.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Randstad France: Randstad is one of the largest global staffing firms with a strong French presence providing temporary work, permanent placement, and HR services. It is comparable to PAE Sud Est 35 in offering employer-job seeker intermediation, though as a commercial, large-scale operator rather than a community non-profit.
• Manpower France: Manpower is a major global staffing and recruitment firm operating in France with extensive temporary and permanent placement services. It is comparable as a provider of employment matching between job seekers and local employers, though it operates commercially and at national scale rather than as a non-profit localized service.
• France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi): France Travail is the French national public employment agency providing job search assistance, unemployment registration, and employer matching nationwide. It is comparable as the dominant public-sector player in employment services that PAE Sud Est 35 complements at the hyperlocal level with a more personalized, no-time-limit, free model.

Direct peers

• Maisons de l'Emploi: Maisons de l'Emploi are local public structures coordinating employment, training, and economic development actors within a territory. They overlap directly with PAE Sud Est 35 in mission — local proximity employment services, employer-job seeker intermediation, and partnership-based delivery — though typically at a larger intercommunal scale.
• Cap Emploi: Cap Emploi is a national network of specialized associations supporting employment of people with disabilities through vocational guidance, training, and employer matching. It is comparable to PAE Sud Est 35 as a French public-funded association model delivering vocational insertion and employer-job seeker matching at a local level.
• Missions Locales: Missions Locales are non-profit associations providing free, localized employment and insertion support primarily to young people (16-25) across France. They share the same operating logic as PAE Sud Est 35 — proximity-based, individualized counseling, employer matching, public funding — and are the most structurally comparable French peer for community employment insertion services.
• PLIE (Plans Locaux pour l'Insertion et l'Emploi): PLIE are local integrated plans for employment and insertion, coordinating public and associative actors to support people far from employment. They are highly comparable to PAE Sud Est 35 in function (vocational insertion, individualized pathways, employer linkage) and funding logic (public subsidies, multi-commune governance).

Others

• Réseau Cocagne: Réseau Cocagne is a French federation of insertion-by-economic-activity organizations using gardening and food activities as vectors for vocational reinsertion. It is comparable thematically as a French non-profit model delivering professional insertion through localized, multi-stakeholder programs funded by public authorities, though in a different sector.

Emerging players

• APEC (Association Pour l'Emploi des Cadres): APEC is the French association managing employment services for executives and managerial profiles. It is comparable as a non-profit, public-interest employment service organization, though its focus is on a specific higher-skill segment and operates nationally.

Regional players

• ADMR (Aide à Domicile en Milieu Rural): ADMR is a French federation of local non-profit associations delivering proximity services (including CESU-eligible personal services) in rural and peri-urban communes. It is comparable as a similarly structured federation of hyperlocal non-profits operating under French loi 1901 with commune-level governance, though its core mission is personal services rather than employment insertion.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/point-accueil-emploi-sud-est-35

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

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