‪Qu’est-ce qu’une recherche « active » d’emploi ?‪. Expériences de chômeurs ayant obtenu un emploi

The job search is quite marginal within the analyses of the experience of unemployment. These one have mostly highlighted the extent and the variety of unemployment consequences on individual situations and everyday lives. However, as activation is becoming a pivotal part of the employment policies job search appears as a more central part of the unemployed experiences : They have to be active, so that job search can be considered as a work for the unemployed. Based on this hypothesis, we analyze the experiences of job search, narrated during in-depth interviews with unemployed people who have succeeded in obtaining a relatively sustainable job. We show that the unemployed people themselves frame job search on three directions : targeting, distancing and limitation. Such a framing means a self-control of job searching. This self-control represents a deviation from the active job seekers? model, but it is a major feature of job searches that lead to job.