You are less happy at work and you realize that you are perhaps no longer in your place? Are you thinking about doing something else, more in line with your values? Are you wondering about the risks and opportunities of changing jobs in this complicated period? The skills assessment, which can be financed through your CPF, could well be an answer to your questions…
Today, when employees and managers seek training to take stock or reorient themselves, it is the skills assessment which comes in number one, ahead of certifications for medical secretary, interior decorator, childcare assistant and English courses. Surprising phenomenon, it is especially in regions that it is the most used.
Need to take stock?
According to the Caisse des dépôts, which steers the Personal training account (CPF), 85,000 requests for skills assessment funding were validated in 2021, and at least 100,000 requests skills assessments could be validated this year.
Does your job still make sense? Do you feel fulfilled and happy to wake up every morning to go to work?
If this is not really the case, is that you may have arrived at the end of a cycle? Or that you realized that you were no longer in your place. You are now considering doing something else, a future more in tune with your personality and with your values!
Your aspirations for the future have certainly evolved and it is probably time to consider a career change.
To do this, give yourself some time to reflect on your professional situation. You will thus find new sources of motivation. And even if this deep desire for professional retraining often resembles an obstacle course, the experience is worth the detour and often begins with… a skills assessment.
A skills assessment, what is it for?
The skills assessment is a device relating to continuing vocational training which consists of analyzing your professional and personal skillsskills and motivations in order to define a realistic and achievable professional project and, if necessary, identify a training project.
It is therefore useful at any time in a career:
- Retraining
- Beginning of training
- Evolution
- Focus
To better listen to you, get to know you and also to better manage your career!
Because the skills assessment is the first stage of the conversion phase. It allows you to take maximum height and update all links between your past, your present and your professional future.
It brings unity to your career, gives it meaning and value while integrating the reality of the world of work. It’s a voluntary approach which only works if you really want to accelerate your professional development.
There are multiple reasons (all legitimate) to engage in a skills assessment:
- Take stock of your professional situation at a specific time.
- Analyze your personal and professional skills and abilities.
- Find the resources to bounce back if you’re going through a tough time.
- Identify your potential and your transferable skills.
- Assess your ability to move into new areas.
- Review your strengths as bargaining tools for a job or career advancement.
- Take the time to reflect to check that your project is in line with your aspirations and your motivations.
- Make a new professional start (reorientation, job change, business creation, etc.).
What are the stages of the skills assessment
A skills assessment always takes place in three phases :
- The preliminary phase corresponds to the implementation of the balance sheet. It includes an interview in which you must express your objectives, needs and the context of your request. It is at this time that the method that will be used to carry out the assessment is defined.
- The investigation phase is the most important, because it is where the work of elaboration, research and choice will be made. It can include 6 to 7 sessions, divided into two parts: “Getting to know yourself better and being informed” and “Building your project”
- The closing phase allows you to define your action plan and identify the means favoring the realization of your project.
Each of these phases is punctuated by interviews, work sessions and personal reflection. The duration of the skills assessment is 24 hours (including 8 hours of personal reflection), generally spread over 6 to 12 weeks.
A detailed summary is given to you at the end and a follow-up interview is offered to you within six months of the assessment.
Is the skills assessment for you?
Asking questions about your professional development is already a first clue. If at the moment or for some time you are in one of these situations:
- You no longer recognize yourself in your job and you want to change it to be in accordance with your values or your family constraints
- You want to give meaning to what you do without having a specific project
- You have a project in mind but you need to check if it’s the right choice
- You don’t know where to start and you had a hard time getting started
- You plan to change region and you need to build a suitable project with the local job market
- You are coming out of a burnout and you need to rebuild yourself after this difficult period and are considering a new project
- You are faced with a critical situation in your company, you want to anticipate this breach of contract and be able to project yourself on another project
- You are bored in your current job, you want to boost your career
- You plan to become self-employed but you want to have all the cards in hand to get started safely
So there is a good chance that this is the right time to start a support process.
How to finance your skills assessment?
As a device of professional formation continuesthe cost of a skills assessment (on average 1600 euros for 24 hours of support) can be covered by your CPF or OPCOs.
Funding by Pôle emploi is accessible to job seekers, whether or not they receive allowances under the return to work assistance (ARE) or assistance for the creation or takeover of a job. a company (ACRE). Thus, they benefit from theindividual training aid (AIF) in addition to another partial funding scheme or on the entire skills assessment. All you have to do is contact your Pôle emploi adviser.
Financing by the company is a possibility offered to entrepreneurs who have chosen to create a commercial company of which they are employee assimilated managerss, like the SASU. Indeed, the status of assimilated employee opens the same rights as those of an employee of a “classic” company, except the right to unemployment. You can thus finance your professional training under your company’s training plan via the OPCO on which you depend.
