Professional integration which is a powerful lever for the autonomy of young people is becoming increasingly difficult because of unemployment. The latter is explained by the economic crisis, job insecurity or the segmentation of labour among others. The recent and painful "Arab spring" came as a supplement to signify ill being of a young population in lack of pointers to their employability. We thought appropriate to consider the threshold of the need for social esteem in the Cameroonian context, where statistics show a high rate of unemployment. We are particularly interested in job-seekers registered with the National Employment Fund of Douala-Bali. This study has as focus the level of agreement they have with regard to the choice of a strategy to facilitate their integration into the labour market in Cameroon in general and Douala in particular. A sample of 120 subjects was obtained from the criterion of detention, at least, of the 'Baccalauréat' which is the first academic degree. A questionnaire developed by us on the basis of the inventory of self-esteem of Bouvard et al. (2003) has been administered. A scale has been developed to assess self-esteem in social situations. The results obtained following an analysis of the correlations of the different variables show on one hand that job seekers need a strong self-esteem in a situation of quest for insertion. In addition, the more the need for esteem varies, the more the strategy differs from those formal to those so-called informal.