Employment: a “skills passport” to identify skills and diplomas

Identify qualifications, experience and skills. In a nutshell, this is the stated objective of the “orientation, training and skills passport”, the implementation of which was entrusted by the State to Caisse des Dépôts in 2018. Backed by the My training account, this digital passport, which was supposed to open in 2022, should finally see the light of day in the first half of 2023, according to the financial institution.

“The objective is to give workers some means of reflecting on their career path and their orientation, in order to refine their professional project”, explains Marion-Anne Macé, deputy director of vocational training at Caisse des Dépôts. This service is aimed at all active people from the age of 15 and will only be available to holders of a personal training account .

Highlight the acquired experience

It will allow both to identify the diplomas and certificates obtained, but also to generate a CV “with probative value”. “This will allow the asset to improve its employability and to export it to an employer or a professional development council if it needs help to orient itself and structure this CV”, advances Marion-Anne Macé. This device is intended to complement My training account, especially dedicated to the purchase of training.

While the validation of acquired experience (VAE) does not take off, this passport also aims to highlight the skills and know-how assimilated over the years. Acquired experience is thus the first of the three “blocks” that will make up the skills passport. To do this, Caisse des Dépôts will collect a certain amount of data from employers, such as personal social declarations.

Helping the unskilled

In the second block will be listed all the diplomas obtained within the framework of the initial training and in the third, will finally appear the certifications acquired in vocational training. “The certifiers will be required to declare the holders who have obtained a title or certification”, specifies the deputy director of vocational training at Caisse des Dépôts.

If this service is open to all, it is mainly intended to help people “who need training and adapt to employment”, says Marion-Anne Macé. “These are often employees or low-skilled people,” she observes. “For them, the need for orientation is very important”. Eventually, the data from this passport could be shared on other platforms or passports such as LinkedIn or Europass.

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