In a fast-changing global context impacted by major societal shift (climate, digital, demographic) and turmoil (pandemics, international political instability), economies are transforming, skills required on the labour market are evolving and profess...

An event as unprecedented as it was unexpected, the health crisis interfered with employees’ plans for career change. How did they come to terms with this situation? In particular, what happened to blue-collar workers, or more broadly the least skill...

CEP (Career development advice), which was introduced in France in 2014 in line with the recommendations of the Council of the European Union Resolution of 21 November 2008 on Lifelong Guidance, is designed to guarantee personalised support for all w...

Tracking the 2010 cohort of leavers: preliminary results after 7 years   How have the French young people who left the education system in 2010 at all levels and with or without qualifications higher than the lower secondary certificate fared...

The book presents the detailed results of the large-scale national survey carried out in the spring of 2016 among young people who left education in 2013. Over the past twenty years, the Céreq has conducted a series of triennial surveys, with a repr...

The French national plan against early school leaving, which was launched at the start of the school year in 2014, is intended, among other things, to strengthen collaboration between education professionals in order to make headway in preventing the...

Occupations and skills observatories produce tools that can be used by industries, firms and employees. The various actors in vocational training regard them as playing an important role. This being so, their position is in need of strengthening; mor...

The number of jobs provided by the metalworking industries are bound to decrease during the next few years in France. This sector will nevertheless be faced with workforce replacement problems because large numbers of employees are due to retire shor...