After 2021 which ended with a very successful opening from Christmas to New Year's Day, Parc Astérix is using its annual closing period to prepare for the 2022 season. A process that necessarily involves a recruitment campaign of more than 1,000 seasonal workers, which has just started.
A career forum will be held on Saturday January 22 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Hôtel de la Cité suspendue in Parc Astérix.
"All of the Park's teams will be there to present the different professions, along with employees who can explain their function precisely", underlines the management.
Catering and hotel trades are particularly sought after at Parc Astérix.
Starting with motivation and commitment, notions that have sometimes been forgotten since the start of the pandemic, especially in the restaurant and hotel sectors, where Parc Astérix, like other leisure parks, has a big hit. needs.
"We are having difficulty finding candidates for vacant positions," said Guy Vassel, deputy director of Parc Astérix, at the launch of the Peur sur le Parc season last October.
The restoration teams are not complete.
We are faced with people who do not come to work without an explanation or who give up altogether along the way.
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Minority cases but likely to complicate the task of Gallic recruiters, who base themselves above all on the way of being candidates, without any age criteria, more than on their professional experience.
"Hence the interest in putting them in contact with Park employees who can describe any difficulties to them," insists management.
And all seasonal workers benefit from training, which covers issues such as schedules, working conditions and customer relations.
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More than 80 different professions are represented at Parc Astérix.
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Parc Astérix can also count on the expertise and experience of Pôle emploi to carry out its campaign to hire seasonal workers.
"Every year, we organize sessions in our agencies where Asterix recruiters come to present their jobs," explains Vincent Coutourides, director of the Pôle emploi agency in Saint-Maximin.
We are preparing job seekers in advance from the start of the year with a view to the recruitment campaign.
And last year, we also set up a webinar with the Park that brought together 570 people.
Asterix is more than 80 jobs and continuous recruitment with the summer, All Saints and Christmas seasons.
Usually 50% of those who worked there apply again the following year.
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Dancers, storekeepers, salespeople, technicians, carpenters ...
In detail, the park is looking for staff for all the hotel and catering trades, but also administrative and reception staff, operators of attractions, additional artists for shows and entertainment, dancers, storekeepers, salespeople and store managers. For most of these seasonal positions, the base salary corresponds to the minimum wage, 10.57 euros per hour on January 1, 2022, or 1,603 euros gross on the basis of work lasting 35 hours.
For several years, work-study positions have been open to young people in training, mainly for the hotel and restaurant sectors, for example with a partnership with Infa de Gouvieux, a training institute specializing in these fields.
Asterix is also looking for permanent employees to reinforce the site's 230 full-time employees.
There are currently vacancies for maintenance technician, event sales assistant, maintenance mechanic, electrician or carpenter.
For all of these recruitments, you can already
apply via the dedicated site
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