More than 980,000 training courses were taken via the CPF last year. This is almost twice as many as a year earlier (517,000 trainings).
According to the DARES (Direction de l'Animation de la Recherche, des Études et des Statistiques) of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Integration, this sharp increase in training taken can be explained by the opening at the end of November 2019 of the "direct purchase pathway" (PAD), via the My Training Account website and application, which allows people to mobilize their rights without an intermediary to purchase training.
The training courses taken on computers (10.3% of the total) rank fourth, after training for driving licenses (25.9%), languages (17%) and those relating to the development of orientation, integration or reintegration skills (15.2%).
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The share of IT training in total training entries has increased since 2016, from 6.3% to 10.3% in 2020. The number of TOSA training entries has nearly tripled in five years, from 15,643 in 2016 to 44,823 in 2020.
TOSA and PCIE certifications among the most popular courses
The number of PCIE (European Computer Driving Licence) training entries has more than doubled, over the same period: from 7,655 in 2016 to 18,281 in 2020.
The is a certification of computer skills (office automation software, digital skills or DTP, CAD, DAO software) which is aimed at any individual, employee, student, job seeker, military in retraining, wishing to improve his employability by certifying his level of mastery in the use of these tools, whatever the field of professional activity.
The ICDL certification assesses digital competencies (transversal competencies) and is therefore not limited to a specific field or sub-field, but covers all areas of professional activity. The repository is administered by a group of experts from the ECDL Foundation. It takes into account the evolution of knowledge and also of software.
- In France, according to , 75% of jobs require basic digital skills.
France Strategysurveyed in 2020 by Pôle Emploi lack of office and/or computer skills".More than half of the working population uses a computer every day.survey
- In 2020, 13% of employers seeking to recruit for skills that are becoming more important in the recruitment criteria following the health crisis mention mastery of digital tools and the ability to work remotely. 12.6% stated that they had rejected candidates because of their "
- In 2017, according to the Digital Barometer, 66% of employed workers (salaried or non-salaried) used a computer at their workplace (only 53% in 2013).
- According to a 2017 CEREQ survey of 6,741 employees, the less connected employees are, the less likely they are to access digital training.
- If they were 18 again and had the opportunity to go back to an initial university course, 64% of the employees surveyed would choose a university course related to digital technology.
