APPRENTICESHIP – LAST YEAR, MORE THAN A MILLION FRENCH PEOPLE TOOK PART IN A TRAINING COURSE THANKS TO A PERSONAL TRAINING ACCOUNT (CPF), EITHER TO MAKE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE OR TO ACQUIRE NEW SKILLS. MODERN LANGUAGES COME OUT ON TOP.
More than 38 million working people – employees, civil servants, self-employed workers and jobseekers – are holders, sometimes without even knowing it, of a personal training account (CPF), supported by Caisse des Dépôts (CDD). With an average cost of 1,280 euros, users can access training courses throughout their working life, without having to go through their employer. The platform ‘s offering is extensive, with some 320,000 training courses. Among the most popular is modern language learning (48.6%), with the BULATS Linguaskill exam at the end of the course. Next comes IT (14.18%), closely followed by transport (12.64%), which leads to the B driving license.
The most popular training courses in France in 2020 on CPF. – Caisse des Dépôts Agnès Seguin, a sales assistant, is one of those who take English language lessons for one hour a week at a cost of 1,750 euros. “I have a job that may require me to speak or write in English. Negotiating in French is stressful enough. So, in English, I really need to be at ease,” she confides in the report at the top of this article. It’s not always easy, but she has seven months to reach her goal.
After nine months of unemployment, Lætitia Girard has set herself the goal of setting up her own business, but first she needs to master some basic carpentry skills: “In concrete terms, this training should enable me to design furniture according to people’s desires, and therefore to offer made-to-measure furniture”, she explains.
Finally, training as a coach to support employees in their career choices is also proving increasingly popular. Professor Garance Yverneau has observed this with a growing number of participants since the beginning of the epidemic. ” Right from the first lock-down, we had a 50% increase in the volume of requests from people wishing to retrain or needing to retrain, as they were directly impacted by the coronavirus crisis,” she sums up in front of the TF1 cameras.
The CPF system has been a hit since the first lock-down
Despite a sudden, but one-off, drop in registrations in March 2020 due to the first confinement, demand has never been so high. They picked up sharply in April 2020, and have been rising ever since, even reaching an all-time high between October 2020 and January 2021, with peaks of over 10,000 weekly requests.
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