Claire de Circourt, one course, several lifes...

Claire de Circourt is President and founder of De Circourt Associates, a company created upon her return from the United states where she lived and learned during fifteen years.

At eighteen years old, she decided to go to United States in order to learn English. She felt that England was too close and was attracted by the magnitude –in terms of size and international aura- of North America. She started her life there, in Shelby, North Carolina, where she taught French to the three children of a lovely family. From there, she moved on to Winston-Salem where she studied in the two main Universities there while getting ready to open her first business, a skin care Counseling Center. Soon, her university teachers, their friends and word-to-mouth recruits became her clients. Her reputation and her sales covered several States.

A phone call from New-York where the skin care company where she bought her products was established changed the course of her life. Impressed by her large orders, the sales Director invited her to come to New-York and tell how she managed to sell so much singlehandedly. She was then hired to travel all over the country selling franchises and sharing her sales techniques with would-be buyers.

Her main secret is work, work and work with, added to that, the love of her clients. With respect for their requests and real dedication, she never had to advertise; for she really wanted for her clientele to look the best possible! It is the same method that she applied when, tired of her nomadic life, she seeked a new challenge in New-York. Soon, she joined a real estate company whose owner, a former lawer, became her mentor in this new field. Renting furnished apartments to expatriates and transient Americans was a very interesting experience. Pretty soon, Claire de Circourt had contacted all of the french institutions, banks, and other french-owned businesses. Success followed.

When moving back to France, she bounced on the latter experience and, in 1987, she started De Circourt Associates, a company which vocation was to help people coming from the world over to find accomodations suited to their needs and particular budgets. In creating such specific business first, then adding twenty years of experience, Claire de Circourt is the undiscutable reference and leader in this market. De Circourt Associates's team is bi-lingual English, but also covers Spanish, Italian, German, Arabic, Laotian languages. Their dynamism, service-oriented personalities stay long into people's mind. More than 100 world-renowned companies have been patrons, half of them for two decades now.

Claire de Circourt says that it is her team and her clients who are her day-to-day motivation. Their talents and their dedication to their work encourage her to always seek better ways and the latest technologies to accomplish the company's mission, resulting in a open and confortable ambiance which is immediately perceived by the clients.

Working with a world-wide clientele is a gratifying challenge, permitting Claire de Circourt and her collaborators to constantly grow and renew themselves. It has been 20 years that De Circourt Associates practices globalisation.