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VAE

The VAE to recognise the skills and experience of your employees through the validation of a certification.

Implemented by the law on social modernisation dated 17 January 2002, the VAE or Validation des Acquis d’Expérience is a French training system that allows people with professional experience to have their skills and knowledge recognised by the validation of a certification.

Why offer VAE to your employees?

In order to facilitate professional advancement, certification results in the awarding of a diploma, a title or a certificate of professional qualification or CQP based on the decision of a jury.

This certification must be registered in the Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles.

The certification chosen must be directly related to the experience justified. This is a real course of action that requires a jury of professionals to validate the knowledge acquired.

Who can benefit from VAE?

Anyone can benefit from VAE, regardless of age, status, nationality, or level of training. The only condition is that they have at least one year’s professional experience.

VAE is interesting for people who are aiming for a job or a progression within their company which would be reserved for the holders of a certain diploma or certification, which the person does not possess despite his or her achievements.

We are thinking in particular of self-taught people.

Indeed, a Validation of Professional Experience can be considered in several cases:

  • To have your level of skills recognised
  • To obtain a promotion
    to develop your potential
  • To access a training course with a higher level as a pre-requisite
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How can I find out about VAE?

Any person can freely access information on the modalities of implementation, training, certifications about VAE.

Tages of support in a VAE program

  • The candidate prepares an administrative file (livret 1) enabling the certifier to study the feasibility of matching the candidate’s experience with the diploma.
  • The certifier studies your file and gives you an answer as to whether it is possible to start your course.

Completing the application

  • Following a positive response, the candidate must put together a validation file (livret 2) detailing the skills acquired in relation to the diploma in question.
  • During this phase, candidates can be accompanied by a trainer to help them draw up their dossier.

Presentation to the jury

Once the candidate’s validation file has been finalized and sent, he or she appears before a certification panel to defend it.
The jury deliberates without the candidate and makes a decision:
  • Award of certification if’ all skills have been validated
  • Validation of one or more blocks of skills if the candidate wishes to take part in the certification process
  • Partial validation of certification, as one or more blocks of skills could not be validated by the candidate. The jury makes recommendations to the candidate
  • No block of skills has been validated by the candidate.
Contact us for more information

Martin

IT manager (luxury groupe)

When you have a position at group level, you don't necessarily think about training in the presence of retail teams. I followed a distance learning course with people from very different worlds and different brands. I was able to develop my management skills while at the same time discovering the business of boutiques, which at first seemed very different.

Laura

Regional director (Home Universe)

In a few days I learned the best methods to manage a region, prioritise my visits, manage from a distance and develop my leadership. I was lucky enough to be coached on visits and I didn't know that the job of RD could be learned.

Marcel

Boutique Manager (Watchmaking)

The trainers and the tools offered are a real plus. Being a manager is not something you can improvise. The training is a good response to the problems that we encounter in the field on a daily basis. I think I have really enriched myself as a manager. And I think that my colleagues have seen this clearly!

Emma

Shop assistant (lingerie)

My company offered me the chance to follow a future manager course. For a year, I followed training modules with a group of 12 salespeople. In the end, I got a diploma with two years of higher education, even though I only had the baccalaureate. I had an unforgettable year!