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The International Journeyman Programme (IJP) was a project to recruit young people from the UK to work and study in France as part of a vocational education and training (VET) program in engineering organised by the French trade guild, Les Compagnons du Devoir (CdD). The aim was to use the French training system to produce flexible craftsmen of international standard. The project was unsuccessful and this paper highlights the role played in its failure by state institutions that were part of the recruitment process. The author examines the strategic relevance of a French VET model to a UK company, the CdD system of training, and the recruitment problems experienced by the IJP.