You are less happy at work and do you realize that you may not be in your place? Do you think about doing something else, more related to your values? Do you wonder about the risks and opportunities to change jobs during this complicated period? The skills assessment, financially through your CPF, may well be an answer to your questions …
Today, when employees and executives are looking for training to take stock or reorient, it is the skills assessment Who arrives in number one, in front of the certifications of medical secretary, interior decorator, childcare assistant and English lessons. Amazing phenomenon, it is especially in regions that it is the most used.
Need to take stock?
According to the Caisse des Dépôts which pilots the Personal training account (CPF), 85,000 requests for funding for skills assessments were validated in 2021, and at least 100,000 requests competence assessments could be validated this year.
Does your job always make sense? Do you feel fulfilled and happy to get up Every morning to go to work?
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If this is not really the case, it may be that you may have reached the end of a cycle? Or that you realized that you were no longer in your place. You are now thinking about doing otherwise, 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 think of a professional reorientation.
To do this, give yourself a time to reflect to take stock of your professional situation. You will find New sources of motivation. And even if this deep desire for professional retraining is often like a obstacle course, experience is worth the detour and often begins with … a skills assessment.
A skills assessment, what is it for?
The skills assessment is a system relating to continuing vocational training which consists in analyzing Your professional and personal skillsAptitudes and motivations in order to define a realistic and achievable professional project and, if necessary, identify a training project.
He is therefore useful at any time in a career:
- Retraining
- Start of training
- Evolution
- Focus
To better listen to you, to know you and also to better manage your career!
Because the skills assessment is the first step of the conversion phase. It allows you to take up maximum height and Update all links Between your past, your present and your professional future.
It brings unity to your journey, gives it meaning and value while integrating the reality of the world of work. It is a voluntary approach Who 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 skills.
- Find the resources to bounce back if you are going through a difficult period.
- Identify your transferable potentials and skills.
- Evaluate your ability to evolve in new areas.
- Review your assets as negotiation instruments for a job or career development.
- Take the time to reflect to verify that your project is online with your aspirations and motivations.
- Take a new professional start (reorientation, change of position, business creation, etc.).
What are the steps in the skills assessment
A skills assessment always takes place in Three phases ::
- The preliminary phase corresponds to the implementation of the balance sheet. It has an interview in which you must express your objectives, needs and the context of your request. It is then defined the method that will be used to carry out the balance sheet.
- The investigation phase is the most important, because this is where the work of development, research and choice will be made. It can include 6 to 7 sessions, divided into two parts: “get to know each other better and learn” and “build your project”
- The conclusion phase Allows you to define your action plan and lists the means promoting the realization of your project.
Each of these phases is punctuated by interviews, work sessions and personal reflection. The duration of the competence assessment is 24 hours (including 8 hours of personal reflection), generally distributed over 6 to 12 weeks.
A Detailed synthesis You are given at the end and a follow -up interview is offered to you within six months of the balance sheet.
Is the skills assessment for you?
Asking questions about your professional development is already a first index. If at the moment or for some time you have been in one of these situations:
- You no longer recognize yourself in your job and you want to change it to agree with your family values or 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 this is the right choice
- You don’t know where to start and you have to get started
- You plan to change the region and you need to build a suitable project with the local job market
- You get out of a burnout and you need to rebuild yourself after this difficult period and consider a new project
- You are faced with a critical situation in your business, you want to anticipate this breach of contract and be able to project yourself on another project
- You are bored in your current work, you want to give your career a boost
- You plan to put yourself on your own but you want to have all the cards in hand to get started safe
So there is a good chance that it is the right time to undertake a support process.
How to finance your skills assessment?
As a device of continuing vocational trainingthe cost of a skills assessment (on average 1,600 euros for 24 hours of support) can be supported by Your CPF Or the OPCO.
Funding by Pôle Emploi is accessible to job seekers, whether or not they receive benefits for return to employment (ARE) or aid for the creation or resumption of a company (ACRE). Thus, they benefit from theIndividual training assistance (AIF) In addition to another partial financing system or on the entire skills assessment. Just contact your Pôle Emploi advisor.
Funding by the company is a possibility offered to entrepreneurs who have chosen to create a commercial company from which they are Employee assimilated managerss, like SASU. Indeed, the status of employee assimilated opens the same rights as those of a “classic” company employee, except the right to unemployment. We can thus finance his professional training for the training plan of his company via the OPCO on which we depend.
