At the start of 2024, 67% of workers say they are ” enough “ Or “very confident” in their professional future, compared to 75% in 2020, indicates the fifth annual Barometer of training and employment from Center Inffo (public service association under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor), published Thursday March 28 and carried out in partnership with the the CSA research institute, among 1,618 people aged 18 and over, representative of the active population.
“The darker news – the war in Ukraine and the Middle East, the deteriorating economic situation – is probably weighing on the morale of the French”, comment Pascale Romenteau and Julie Gaillot, respectively general director of Center Inffo and director of the Society division of CSA. But their daily news is the transformation of professions: 42% consider that their profession is evolving very quickly (44%, slowly and 14% believe that nothing is changing).
In response, they retrain or consider changing jobs. But the survey does not say whether they are moving because everything is changing around them or because they are having trouble coping with the changes in their current position.
Training, a necessity
Of the total respondents, 21% of workers are preparing a career change. This figure has remained stable since 2021. Retraining after Covid-19 has not increased, even though the media enthusiasm for this phenomenon may have suggested the opposite.
The aspiration for new professional horizons is growing, but it is reflected in changes of company rather than profession: 53% of workers are thinking about it, including 37% in the next two years, compared to 49% and 33% respectively. since 2021. Which could challenge HR managers engaged in the war for talent.
Training therefore appears to be a necessity for 83% to 90% of the workers surveyed, particularly seniors and “bac + 5”, in the context of changes in the world of work to preserve their employability… However, 63% of workers consider the training as restrictive in their busy schedule. And 32% judge, for their part, that it is useless, because it is too rarely put into practice.
Who are these skeptics? “Rather young and/or poorly qualified workers. Being less well informed, they are less demanding of training, even though these profiles need it the most”estimate Pascale Romenteau and Julie Gaillot.
Aspiration for autonomy
If 52% of respondents feel well informed about continuing education, 48% think the opposite, and this divide cuts across the level of education and professional integration: thus, 55% of CSP+, who are generally the most qualified, feel well informed, but only 37% of the unemployed.
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