740 000 job-seekers benefit from the plan of priority training launched in 2016, which is expected to double by the end of the year to reach a million. But it is still too early to draw up a balance sheet of their return to employment.
the success of the training at the unemployed, does not disappoint. 89,1% of job seekers who have completed training are “satisfied” or “very satisfied”, according to a survey by Ipsos for the Pôle emploi (1) published on 20th October. Rates comparable to those job seekers out of training in 2014 (87,6%) and 2013 (89,4%). 88% of them also indicate that this training enabled them to develop their skills on their profession and/or to train for a new profession.
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“This is the best response that the actors can bring to those who are tempted to consider the plan to 500,000 as a statistical manipulation,” said the minister of Labour, Myriam El Khomri, which received Thursday morning of the beneficiaries, and their advisors, Pole emploi, in the company of Jean Bassères, director of the operator, and Gérard Cherpion, the association of Regions of France.
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Launched in the beginning of the year by François Hollande, the plan to 500,000 is expected to be doubled by 2016 to reach a million training courses for job seekers in 2016.The training proposed priority target job seekers less qualified, without condition of age, aimed at a rapid return to employment.
740 000 job-seekers trained
According to an assessment carried out by Pôle emploi, in mid-October, there were “be 740,000 entries, or entries-in-training” in 2016, for an average duration of three months. In detail, the 450,000 job seekers are being trained or have completed, 209.000 are registered to an entry by the end of the year, 48.000 benefit from support to business creation and 33.000 signed a professional contract.
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Recalling that “the vocational training does not always go to those who need it most”, Myriam El Khomri said that the plan is targeted at the unemployed, low-skilled, long-term, the seniors and the young. Young people (under 26 years) and older workers (over 45 years) accounted for, respectively, 25.4% and 24.2% of the beneficiaries. As for the “long-term unemployed and/or job seekers with little or no skilled”, their share is high to 41.8%.
In 2015, 43% of the unemployed were “long-term”, according to Insee. More than half of them (56%) were non-high school graduates.
“to Form useful,”
Only here. This extensive training plan is denounced by the opposition as a way to reverse the artificially the unemployment curve. Job-seekers-in-training are not considered unemployed, because they are not immediately available for work. “The goal is not to train to train, is to train useful,” said the minister.
(1) Survey carried out in August with 15.370 respondents out of training last July.
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The unemployed trained-have they found employment? “It is still too early to measure, these studies were carried out six months after they leave training,” says Pôle emploi. A balance sheet specific should be published before the end of the year.
(1) Survey carried out in August with 15.370 respondents out of training last July.