Apprenticeships popular with SMEs

While the image of apprenticeships is improving little by little among young people (particularly among éhigher education students), it is also gaining ground among ésmall business owners. According to an Ipsos survey carried out in November by the Fondation d'Auteuil (1), 78% of them consider apprenticeship to be a good way of combating unemployment - up from 69% a year earlier. The managers of small businesses in particular appreciate the « values » véhiculées conveyed by this training method : a sense of concreteness, solidarityé, covering the company… A blessing, however : although they consider themselves to be fairly well informedéabout government aid schemes designed à to encourage apprenticeship in SMEs, only 40 % of the managers questionedéfind these measures effective for small structures. And 76 % believe that the incentives will have little or no impact on their recruitment. Finally, while 52 % of these managers consider the payment of their apprenticeship tax to be a form of corporate mécénat, many of them deplore a certain opacityé in the operation of this tax and its use.

Source Les Echos