In 2021–2022, the AvenirPro scheme supported 4,381 pupils across 171 secondary schools. It consists of two phases: a period of group support in the classroom, aimed at equipping pupils with the knowledge they need to look for a job suited to their aspirations and skills, and to prepare for job interviews; followed by a period of personalised support during the five months following the end of the school year.
The AvenirPro pilot scheme: a catalyst for the professional/vocational integration into employment of students on CAP and BacPro courses
This note presents the initial findings of the AvenirPro pilot scheme, which aims to improve the professional/vocational integration of vocational sixth-form students by offering them the opportunity to receive support from France Travail advisers.
Reference IPP Policy Brief No. 109
Presentation
Key Results
- The proportion of students who found a job in January 2023 after completing the AvenirPro programme in 2022 rose from 16 per cent to 23 per cent – an increase of around 45 per cent – with a confidence level of 89.6 per cent.
- For the quarter of students who found it most difficult to find a job, the employment rate doubled, rising from 10 per cent to 20 per cent.
- For these pupils, the number of days worked since July 2022 by those in employment in January 2023 has increased by around 200 per cent.
- The proportion of pupils enrolled in secondary or higher education fell by 22 per cent, from 50 per cent to 39 per cent for the 2022–2023 academic year.
- A similar pilot study carried out with advisers from the Adecco Group and its subsidiary Humando in the Île-de-France region showed a comparable impact on employment and days worked, but a different outcome regarding the pursuit of further education.
Method and Data
Cette évaluation a été réalisée en sélectionnant aléatoirement les lycées, les classes et les élèves bénéficiant des interventions de France Travail afin de créer un groupe traité et un groupe témoin a priori comparables.
To evaluate Phase 1 – the group support phase, running from January to June – secondary schools were selected by ranking them in ascending order according to the employment rate of their pupils who had not continued their studies after leaving school in previous years. Once this ranking had been established, one in every two schools was selected to receive AvenirPro within each pair of schools. Thus, for each school in the treatment group, there is a control school that does not receive AvenirPro as a result of the random draw. Within each treatment school, the classes participating in the AvenirPro programme were selected using the same method. The research team thus identified 171 schools in the treatment group, with an equal number of control schools, and 4,381 pupils who benefited from the AvenirPro programme. There are approximately 15,000 pupils in the control schools.
In phase 2, after the end of the school year, one in two pupils was selected from the participating classes to receive individual support from July to November.
Information on the pupils is sourced from the Inserjeunes administrative database.
Operational constraints and limited data, combined with a relatively small number of pupils covered in the first year of AvenirPro (4,381 in Phase 1 and 1,925 in Phase 2), mean that the authors are only able to compare all pupils at the treatment secondary schools, of whom around 75 per cent did not benefit from AvenirPro, with all pupils at the control secondary schools, of whom around half would not have been directly interested in AvenirPro as they wished to continue their studies. Statistical power is therefore reduced. This means that effects which might be real but not strong enough cannot be detected.
