Ten government proposals for a national training plan

Driven by a desire to focus more on young people, while promoting digital professions and the attractiveness of the sector, Syntec Numérique reveals its ten proposals to the Government, to develop “an ambitious national training plan for digital professions and jobs”.

As part of the promotion of the Contrat d’étude prospective (CEP) for the digital sector, which highlighted the creation of over 36,000 net jobs by 2018, and the ongoing debate on the reform of vocational training and apprenticeships, Syntec Numérique is putting forward its proposals to the government for a national training plan, while insisting on the strengthening and simplification of work-study schemes (apprenticeships and professionalization).

“France must respond to the European Commission’s grand coalition for IT employment, which identifies a need for 900,000 jobs to be filled by 2015 in Europe. We need to give young people, jobseekers, senior citizens and school dropouts the opportunity to fill these jobs, which will play a key role in the next phase of the digital revolution: the era of industrial digital technology”, emphasizes Guy Mamou-Mani, President of Syntec Numérique.

In its February 2013 roadmap, the Government had asked Syntec Numérique to initiate this forward-looking study (CEP) on skills and recruitment needs in the digital sector, which was carried out with the social partners and the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Vocational Training and Social Dialogue.

For Syntec Numérique, the training plan resulting from these observations must meet several challenges:

• Innovate in training for and through digital technology, to accelerate the spread of digital skills from an early age.
• Give young people the opportunity to take up the jobs that will drive the digital industrial age, by graduating with the qualifications they need to enter the workforce straight from higher education.
• Adapting vocational training provision to the needs of a growing sector that is constantly evolving technologically, while at the same time creating net jobs over a long period, in companies that are “doing” digital and those that are taking advantage of it to expand or transform.
• Rethink our system of training, skills acquisition and certification, to make the labor market more fluid by matching training provision to the needs of the economy.

The plan proposed by Syntec Numérique covers every situation or stage of life:

• initial training: from kindergarten to high school
• training leading to a degree from bac +2 to doctorate
• remedial training for dropouts
• vocational training for working people
• vocational training for job seekers.

“Digital technology is for people from all walks of life. It is essential to find concrete solutions. That’s why we’re proposing a national training plan, with the aim of developing new talent and creating the ‘digital generation’ of tomorrow!” concludes Guy Mamou-Mani, President of Syntec Numérique.