LoadingLoadingLoadingLoadingYouth unemployment in the Maghreb is not solved by another unassessed course. This paper traces 280 ALU graduates and near-graduates in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia into first roles and family enterprises. Private exporters and digital firms used verified transcripts. Public contests sometimes still assumed a paper file from a local faculty. French-Arabic bilingual portfolios helped in Morocco and Tunisia more than English-only CVs. Arab Leadership University should maintain Maghreb-specific careers notes and stop implying that a digital award automatically enters every concours. Research that tells the truth is more useful to a 24-year-old in Casablanca than a global employment statistic.