Whatever your plan, an information gathering stage is always necessary to choose, decide and act.

For a study or career plan, this means finding out about the:

• The Higher education system and teaching methods
• Where studies can lead to professionally
• Work placements as part of a course of study 
• Business sectors,  Professions, departments,
• Companies and recruitment

You can also plan to Go abroad for a period of study, a work placement or to find a job.
The service provides you with a specialist document collection on the themes of higher education, professions, companies and business sectors.
This collection is permanently updated and includes documents of diverse origins - publications obtained from publishing houses, press articles, professional federation handbooks or educational catalogues for example.
It also includes electronic resources, in particular a selection of websites. See the online catalogue.
The SCUIO offers:

• Guided tours with an introduction to the INFO-DOC database and the document collection.
• Themed training workshops:

. Discover the professions and business sectors that lead on from a discipline studied at UPS. .  Find out about the employment market, business sectors and company departments. . Find information on companies.

• Training sessions on topic databases:

. Kompass - Business directory
. Atlas of basic training in France - Qualifications, educational establishments.
. CIDJ and CRIJ - Infosheet on studies, professions and student life in general.
. INFO-DOC database - Exploration of the SCUIO document collection.

Students who are interested may sign up online or at the SCUIO reception desk.
Teaching staff who wish to accompany their students may contact Anais Ayité by email accueilinformation.scuio@cict.fr  or by telephone on +33 (0)5 61 55 73 79