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  • Accompanying a beneficiary of a career assessment
  • Accompanying a beneficiary of a career assessment
  • Accompanying a beneficiary of a career assessment

Objectives

By the end of the training, you should be able to guide a young person in defining their career and educational goals. You should have acquired the skills needed to conduct career assessments, helping the young person gain a better understanding of themselves, academic programs, and career paths.

Target audience & prerequisites

Target audience:

The training course “Supporting a Participant Through a Career Assessment” is designed for individuals with significant experience in one-on-one support (employment placement, training, human resources) and/or significant knowledge of young people (teaching, special education, school career center coordinator).

Prerequisites:

Applicants must demonstrate significant experience in one of the above-mentioned fields.

For those without significant experience in these areas, completion of the "Fundamentals of Mentoring and Coaching" training course is a prerequisite.

Duration & Organization

The training program lasts 35 hours, or a total of 5 training days, including:

  • 14 hours of asynchronous distance learning, equivalent to 2 days' training,
  • 21 hours of synchronous face-to-face or remote training over 3 consecutive days.
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The course

The "Accompanying a beneficiary of a career assessment" training course is structured in two main parts.

Part

The French education system

  1. The general philosophy of the French system :
    • History of the French school system,
    • Ranking logic: Classification of different courses, history of the competitive examination system, selection and allocation principles.
    • Social determinism: The role of social determinism in the choices made by students and their parents.
    • The key factors for success at school: differences and similarities with the professional world, elements of understanding. 
  2. The different types of higher education in France :
    • Before the Baccalaureate: General, technological, and vocational education,
    • From bac to bac +3: Prépa, Prépa intégrée, Bachelor, DUT and BUT, BTS, university,
    • From bac to bac + 5: The different types of Masters in Business Schools, Engineering Schools, Specialized Schools, IAE, University,
    • Beyond a five-year degree: Specialized master's degrees and doctorates.
Part

How to carry out an orientation assessment

  1. Know how to use, render and interpret the tests used in career guidance assessments :
    • The career aptitude test (R.I.A.S.E.C model),
    • The values test, 
    • The 32 figures of destiny test,
    • Personality test.
  2. Knowing how to conduct interviews with the young person and their parents :
    • The initial meeting to get to know the young person and their parents (questions to ask, topics to discuss, key points to understand, etc.),
    • Mid-term meetings: how to help students open up so they can develop an academic and career plan that is motivating, engaging, and true to who they are,
    • The final presentation, during which the student presents the project to their parents with the consultant’s assistance, followed by the drafting of a summary.
  3. Managing problem situations with the young people and their parents :
    • The case of young people failing at school, experiencing psychological difficulties or in conflict with their parents, 
    • The issue of academic demotivation: how to re-engage a young person who is demotivated and disengaged from school,
    • The case of school failure: how to give young people and their parents the keys to understanding and taking action to get back on the road to academic success. 

Target skills

The "Accompanying a beneficiary of a career assessment" training program aims to acquire and validate the following skills:

  • Understand the structure of the French education system, the various academic tracks, and the learning methods, and be able to explain them to a young person and their parents,

  • Be able to assess the degree of alignment between the characteristics of the young person at their current stage of development and the professional environments, academic tracks, and learning options available,

  • Knowing how to support young people through the various stages of the career assessment process, from analyzing their life journey to developing a career and academic plan, including the testing phase and exploring existing and potential paths.

 

Teaching resources, methods and supervision techniques

The training course “Supporting a Participant Through a Career Assessment” covers everything related to guiding young people in developing a career and educational plan. It is based on a proven method that has been refined over ORIENTACTION’s 12 years of experience in career guidance and academic coaching (over 1,000 young people supported). The co-founder of the ORIENTACTION group, Dr. Emeric Lebreton, has taught at the university level (traditional track and DUT programs) as well as at top business schools (Audencia) and engineering schools (École des Ponts). This training course provides him with an opportunity to share his knowledge of academic tracks and their connection to student psychology. 

Course Requirements

There are several possible organizational arrangements :

MEANS OF ORGANIZING FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING

The training will be conducted:

  • At the ORIENTACTION offices in Le Mans.

METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DISTANCE LEARNING (SYNCHRONOUS)

  • Training will be carried out via synchronous distance learning using the ZOOM tool,
  • Links to ZOOM will be provided by the training center.

ASYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE LEARNING

Asynchronous distance learning is based on a set of documents to be consulted and podcasts to be listened to before the face-to-face or synchronous distance learning part of the course. 

Pedagogical and technical support and assistance

Educational support and technical assistance for distance learning are provided by the training department throughout the trainee’s program.

The training department is available to answer questions regarding the training process, the use of digital tools, access to educational resources, and any difficulties encountered during the training.

Requests can be submitted by email, and we will process them as soon as possible, or by phone in case of an emergency requiring immediate attention.

The full contact information for the training department is provided to the trainee upon signing the training contract and is also included in the welcome booklet provided at the start of the program. 

Means for monitoring action implementation and results

During the training, you :

  • Fill in an attendance sheet and a satisfaction questionnaire to assess the quality of the training (trainer's pedagogical skills, quality of teaching aids, etc.),
  • You will take a multiple-choice knowledge assessment at the end of the in-person or synchronous online training session to evaluate your level of knowledge upon completion of the training. 

People with disabilities

Training is open to all, and all types of disability will be taken into account, within the limits of the skills, human and material resources available for the training provided. If ORIENTACTION does not have the material, technical and human resources to meet the needs of a disabled participant, the latter will be referred either to the ORIENTACTION group's disability advisor, or to a partner organization in the ORIENTACTION network. 

Access procedures and deadlines

All training requests are accompanied by a quote specifying the total cost (including tax) of the training, as well as the dates on which it will take place. The quote is sent electronically via email. Once the quote has been accepted and the training contract or agreement has been signed, the training may begin after a minimum waiting period of 30 calendar days, which allows for remote training, among other things. For information on the terms and conditions for postponing or canceling the training, please refer to the Terms and Conditions available by clicking here: https://www.orientaction-groupe.com/cgv/

Certification

This training program leads to the issuance of a certificate of competence for providing career assessment support. This certificate is not a state-recognized degree. It grants access to all the tools and methodological resources used by ORIENTACTION in the context of career assessment support. These tools may be used freely for commercial purposes provided the user belongs to the ORIENTACTION group (subcontract, brand license and commercial partnership agreement, or fixed-term usage agreement). Awarding of this certificate is contingent upon passing the multiple-choice knowledge assessment.

Price and financing of your service

  • 2,000 euros incl. VAT for 35 hours of training, i.e. 57 euros / hour.

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