The Skills Investment Plan, which aims to train one million young people and one million low-skilled job seekers in digital professions through 10,000 training courses, was officially launched on April 5.

Over the past 10 years, the demand for digital technology professionals has grown by 4% per year. However, recruitment difficulties remain: 80,000 jobs remain unfilled due to a lack of suitable profiles in the fields of hardware maintenance, operations and security, web development, and many other fields that have been transformed by the digitalization of our economy.

10,000 training courses in digital professions will therefore be deployed to accelerate the access of young people and job seekers to professions in the digital sector, which has strong recruitment needs.

More than 80,000 jobs to be filled in digital professions in 2018

The2018 edition of the Workforce Needs Survey (BMO) estimates that there are 75,000 job openings for jobs directly related to IT. More than half of the recruitment intentions (42,650) are forengineering and management positionsin IT research and R&D: an increase of more than 27% in one year. The Île de France region accounts for 57% of the positions to be filled.

The study estimates that 21,000 IT technicians will be hired for user services and research and development and 9,000 IT employees and operators.

The study also identifies nearly 9,000 vacancies in three related fields, which have a strong digital dimension: telecommunications, communication professions (assistants and communication executives) and documentation.

Companies that are considering recruiting IT and digital professionals expect to encounter difficulties in finding this type of profile.

Hiring difficulties for these occupations increased between 2017 and 2018, with the exception of IT engineers and managers, for whom the level of difficulties remains at a high level (62.0% in 2018, 62.8% in 2017)

Employers' expectations in terms of digital skills are not limited to the Digital industry. For example, 13% of employers cite "lack of office and/or computer skills" as the reason for difficulties in recruiting in 2017. In this way, 36,000 recruitment projects were identified for " Office and related secretaries ". In the shared prospective vision of jobs and skills in the digital sector, France Stratégie, with the support of Cereq (Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications) had identified thirty-six occupations, structured into nine families, to overcome the difficulties associated with the current nomenclatures of public statistics.

Grande Ecole Du Numérique: 5,000 digital training courses by 2019

A budget of nearly 37 million euros has been allocated to this third call for certification, as part of the skills investment plan managed by the Ministry of Labor.

The Grande Ecole du Numérique aims, as part of the 2018 call for accreditation, to welcome among its learners:

• 80% of people trained to baccalaureate level or below are looking for work
• 30% minimum of women
• 30% of training courses located in priority neighbourhoods of the City policy

Launched in 2015 by the Government, the Grande Ecole du Numérique is a network of more than 400 training courses in digital professions, with courses ranging from 3 months to 32 months, often focused on programming, but dedicated for some to project management or marketing. "60% of the courses are new and cover the entire country," says Samia Ghozlane, director of the GEN, who has announced that 20% of the graduates are women. Those under 26 years of age who are far from employment represent 31% of the classes, as opposed to the 50% initially hoped for.

Faced with the variety of titles, GEN has embarked on a repository of professions and skills that should be published internally by September 2018. By the end of the first half of the year, a state of play should reveal which courses are booming and which ones would have gone out of business.

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