Elodie Céline Gibault: Freelancers on assignment in banks: Work experiences and career paths of experts

This thesis focuses on the freelance work of experts on assignment for banks, within organizations heavily impacted by digital transformation. Increasingly digitized, the banking sector is facing a renewal of professions and skills, with a corollary need for expertise and recourse to freelance tech professionals. Referred to as "self-employed workers," these freelance professionals are defined by their expertise and professional skills "offered" in a specific market, that of services to businesses and banks. This highly dynamic field of activity allows many experts, particularly in the IT sector, to become self-employed. This thesis explores the ecosystem that supports and organizes the activity of these professionals, the conditions of their entry into expert careers, and the experience of this form of employment within the specific context of Bank M. We will show how freelance trajectories are socially situated. From a professional and biographical point of view, they are the result of individual actors, qualified experts, who choose independence in a given state of the labor market.

Keywords: Banking, career, digital, freelance, expert, self-employed worker, trajectory