Continuing education in luxury

Continuing education is a form of learning offered to employed professionals and jobseekers in order to improve their skills or to acquire new professional knowledge.

Continuing education is aimed at people who have entered working life and have left initial training. There are different ways of accessing it which vary according to the status of each candidate and their objectives. The State and the social partners have set up various schemes, taking into account all individual statuses. These schemes are:

• The training plan: initiated by the employer, it defines all the training actions from which the employees of a company can benefit in the context of adapting to their jobs and developing their professional skills
• Individual Training Leave (CIF): taken at the initiative of the employee, this leave allows him or her to follow a training course to acquire new skills. The training does not have to be related to the employee's current job
• Skills assessment leave: this allows the employee to take specific leave in order to carry out a skills assessment, while maintaining his/her salary
• Teaching or research leave: this leave is open to employees wishing to engage in research and innovation activities in a research establishment or company (public or private). It allows the employee to provide technological or professional teaching within an organisation
• The Personal Training Account (CPF): this system aims to promote employee access to lifelong professional training, in accordance with the provisions of Article L6111-1 of the Labour Code.

The advantages of continuing education

Continuing education corresponds to specific training needs in relation to the skills to be acquired. It has many advantages, as it allows you to:

• Acquire a qualification or certificate recognised in the profession
• To develop one's skills and thus be an actor in one's professional development
• Acquire recognition of your skills within the company
• To specialise
• To have more confidence in one's abilities
• Encourage other employees in the company to take part in training activities
• To retrain professionally