Giving up her habits as a management controller in a multinational to become a self-employed educational psychologist: this was the project of Désirée, 36 years old. Quite a challenge, since it meant training for a new profession but also giving up a regular salary to discover the joys and the pangs of independence. “Yes, it’s a bet, but I’m confident, and above all I have two years ahead of me to earn an income from my new activity”, welcomes Desiree. The former management controller is not an annuitant: she “simply” benefited from the resignation-retraining scheme created by the law “for the freedom to choose one’s professional future” of September 2018. The principle: a private employee in CDI can receive unemployment benefits for two years if he resigns to train and change jobs or to create or take over a business.
Continuing education: another professional life is possible
A godsend, but with little success. According to figures from the Direction de l’Animation de la Recherche, des Etudes et des Statistiques (Dares), only 25,000 people have mobilized resignation-retraining since its launch in November 2019, compared to the 470,000 resignations on permanent contracts registered each quarter. Sonia Lakehal, marketing and recruitment manager at Essec – the top business school based in Cergy – meets a lot of executives who want to train and sometimes leave their company, but hey
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