When personal failure turns into entrepreneurial success
It was after two failures at the TOEFL in 2010 that Charles-Eliott Debourdeau put his finger on a problem: no preparation is offered to candidates to maximize their chances of success. This unfavorable result prevents him from integrating a prestigious Master in London. The idea then came to him to create the organism that he lacked. After three years of development, GlobalExam is opening up to individuals, with one objective: to train and train them before the TOEIC, TOEFL IBT and HSK exams.
Success did not take long to arrive and GlobalExam accelerated its deployment thanks to numerous partnerships with higher education schools.
The platform feeds its catalog with other preparations and creates its first portal for professionals in 2016. Still in the ascending phase, GlobalExam is exported internationally in 2018. Today, the platform covers 37 exams in 5 languages and offers more than 50 specialized courses by trades and industries.
The startup is now established in 80 countries and has 1.5 million users.
GlobalExam: the startup that is reinventing language training
GlobalExam
Passing a language certification: a not so simple ambition
Even today, a large number of students encounter the same problem as that encountered by Charles-Eliott Debourdeau almost 10 years ago: it is difficult to pass an international language certification alone.
Benefiting from personalized support, tailor-made training or even taking mock exams are all elements that put the candidate in a more comfortable and active position in his preparation.
GlobalExam thus wants to be the first pure player to fill these gaps.
In five years, he has supported more than 1,500 companies, training organizations and higher education schools in the development of the language skills of their learners.
To do this, the web platform is based on three very distinct axes:
- Language learning on a daily basis: learners have a considerable need to be supported in a tangible way and to have access to training that is truly adapted to their needs.
Learning online can be complex as long as they have access to simple formatted videos.
GlobalExam works with teachers to provide courses that are truly adapted to beginners and promote memory anchoring.
- Training to be more comfortable in their professional environment: professionals who use English often lack fluency because they do not always have a very good command of the English specific to their profession or sector of activity.
GlobalExam allows them to gain confidence with personalized training, which is really useful in everyone's professional daily life.
- Language proficiency for certification: GlobalExam has remained faithful to its initial leitmotif by offering tailor-made preparations for 37 essential linguistic certifications.
GlobalExam leverages technology to develop tools that put user experience at their center, and collaborates with no less than 500 educational experts to provide quality training.
Personalization and achieving goals above all
GlobalExam is based on an objective-based approach. Since everyone does not have the same experience, the same language skills, the idea is to present learning courses that are the most in line with everyone's ambitions. Before the training, GlobalExam submits to its learner an evaluation test in order to have a first idea of his level, his needs and his short and medium term objectives. Once the assessment has been made, the candidate benefits from a course adapted to his profile accessible via an intuitive e-learning platform, and can also access individual or group virtual classes.
In addition to its courses for students and individuals, GlobalExam has designed a new offer especially for companies.
They often see training as a convenience, a necessary step that is sorely lacking in magic.
However, many studies have shown that being confident and fulfilling in your work often requires mastering a foreign language.
GlobalExam aspires to reinvent language training and to make it a real lever of differentiation in business.
Because gaining internal confidence necessarily has an impact on customers.
GlobalExam works for the success of this virtuous circle.
