Contrat d’Etudes Prospectives du secteur professionnel du Numérique: 36,000 job creations in 5 years
Syntec Numérique welcomes the finalization of the prospective study contract (CEP) carried out between February and June 2013 as part of a National Jobs and Skills Development Agreement (ADEC). This study analyzes the digital industry’s skills and recruitment needs up to 2018, and maps out the initial and continuing training on offer in the various digital fields.
Syntec Numérique’s position at the heart of the IT branch’s paritarianism enabled it to initiate this project in full consultation with the relevant social partners, technical consultancies, consulting engineering firms and the French Ministry of Labor, Employment and Vocational Training (DGEFP).
Ten professional sectors making up the core of the digital industry (Digital Services Companies, Software Publishers, Technology Consulting, Web, Video Games) or considered as related sectors (e-Commerce, Robotics, Home Automation, Satellite Services, Banking – Insurance), were analyzed. More than twenty companies, members of Syntec Numérique, took part in this work.
LeCEP hasidentified more than 36,000 new clean jobs inall these sectors over thenext five years, particularly in emerging technologies (Big Data, Cloud Computing, Embedded Systems), or in sectors subject to market or environmental changes (web and mobile development, Web Design, Community Manager).
” The CEP is a unique diagnostic tool that explores the employment prospects for all digital professions, including emerging ones. It is vital that the sector and the public authorities make the most of this tool, both to adapt training provision to skills needs, and to map out the career prospects of our employees, as well as those undergoing professional retraining. Digital technology creates jobs and can be a lever in the fight against unemployment, but we need to give ourselves the means to do so. On the basis of this CEP, Syntec Numérique will participate in the elaboration of an ambitious national policy for training and qualifications in the digital professions. Guy Mamou-Mani, President of Syntec Numérique.
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The study also suggests ways of developing the skills of current employees, whose jobs are set to change over the next few years.
In terms of initial and continuing training, the CEP reports that the overall quality of training on offer is very satisfactory, and keeps pace with the constant technological evolution of the digital sector.
However, it also points to the need to make digital professions more attractive to young people, in order to meet the strong recruitment needs of digital companies, and also identifies certain emerging professions where training opportunities still need to be developed (Big Data analyst, Cyber Security specialist, Business Analyst, Web Designer…).