2023-12-19 18:07:38
Published on Dec 19 2023 at 7:07 p.m.
Entries in training for the unemployed have increased significantly since 2017, particularly for the least qualified among them. But certification training – better able to lead to employment – has benefited them little. And training organizations have not modernized their teaching practices.
This is the mixed assessment that emerges from the fourth evaluation report, published this Tuesday, of the skills investment plan (PIC), the nearly 15 billion euros system launched at the start of the first five-year term. of Emmanuel Macron for five years.
Quantitative objectives achieved
From a quantitative point of view, the PIC achieved its objectives given the flow of money on the table. Training funded by the regions increased from 363,300 to 441,700 between 2017 and 2022. Those from national programs, the other major component of the plan, experienced an even more marked increase (21,000 to 183,000). And once more, the report highlights a fairly significant under-consumption of credits.
As for the qualitative objectives, the copy is clearly less good even if we will have to wait for the fifth, and final, report in a year to have an evaluation of the return to employment rates. In the meantime, the zoom in on the adaptation of training to the skills sought by companies does not fail to raise questions, regarding, here once more, one of the cardinal objectives of the PIC (since reinforced by the Castex plan of September 2021 on professions in tension).
To do this, it is still necessary to identify these needs as best as possible before purchasing training. “Many regions have invested in the development of IT solutions […] more systematically and on a large scale,” the report highlights. The ace ! To date, none of these tools is really operational, due to the difficulty in articulating short and long term needs.
A Kafkaesque competition
This laudable effort came up once morest the complexity of professional training, already highlighted with the 2nd edition of the report. It results in a Kafkaesque competition between systems implemented by the regions, Pôle emploi and professional branches, via their skills operators. As a result, the number of training courses leading to professions identified as in shortage remains lower in 2022 than in 2019: 382,600 compared to 431,000! Their share in the total has decreased, and the decline concerns all regions.
Training can act on the lack of skills to occupy a given profession and thus benefit an unemployed person with an insufficient or inadequate level of qualifications, recalls the scientific committee responsible for the evaluation. It cannot, however, remedy the problems of attractiveness, low salaries and difficult working hours.
As in a vicious circle, when the two combine, training organizations hesitate to open sessions which do not attract trainees. Example in the Grand Est, where new technical platforms preparing for the welding profession had to close for lack of candidates.
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