Faced with recruitment pressures and fast-changing skills, businesses and training providers are looking for effective ways to prepare candidates quickly for the realities of the job.
In that context, the Préparation Opérationnelle à l’Emploi Individuelle (POEI, the French individual pre-employment training scheme) combined withAFEST (Action de Formation en Situation de Travail — workplace-based training) stands out as a particularly relevant arrangement.
But to roll these pathways out at scale and make them work, digital tooling becomes an essential lever.
POEI AFEST: a powerful arrangement for recruiting and training
The POEI allows a candidate to be trained before being hired, closing the gap between their current skills and those the role demands.
Delivered as AFEST, the training takes place directly in the workplace, at the heart of the company’s real activity.
The learner builds skills:
- by carrying out formative work situations,
- with the support of a tutor,
- and through reflective phases that help analyse and embed what has been learned.
The format has many advantages: concrete learning, gradual integration into the company and rapid development of operational skills.
It does, however, call for sound instructional structure and rigorous follow-up.
The challenges of running POEI in AFEST
A successful POEI AFEST rests on several key steps:
- assessing the candidate’s starting skills,
- building an individual pathway,
- identifying and tracking formative work situations,
- supporting the tutor’s work,
- recording learning and assessments.
Without a dedicated tool, these steps quickly become hard for training providers and companies to coordinate.
It is precisely to meet these challenges that Aptitude by Aptilink was designed.
Aptitude: the solution for structuring and steering POEI AFEST
The Aptitude platform developed by Aptilink equips the whole AFEST pathway and secures POEI arrangements.
Structured self-assessment of skills
Before training begins, Aptitude allows a simple, quick self-assessment of skills.
This step makes it possible to:
- identify the skills already mastered,
- spot the gaps against the role’s requirements,
- set learning priorities.
The pathway can then be built to measure for each learner.
Individualised learning pathways
Every POEI is unique.
With Aptitude, training providers can individualise pathways according to the candidate’s real needs and the work situations available in the company.
This approach makes the learning more effective and focuses training on the skills that are genuinely needed.
Clear, structured tracking of training activity
The platform brings together all the information about the pathway:
- formative work situations,
- activities carried out,
- skills assessments,
- learner progress.
Everyone involved therefore has a clear, shared view of how the pathway is progressing.
Concrete support for tutors
Tutoring is at the heart of AFEST. Yet tutors are not always experienced trainers.
Aptitude simplifies and structures the act of tutoring by offering:
- instructional reference points,
- observation tools,
- tracking of skills progression.
The tutor can then concentrate on supporting the learner and passing on the craft.
Digitising POEI AFEST to change scale
By structuring the whole arrangement — from the initial self-assessment through to skills tracking — digital tools such as Aptitude by Aptilink make it possible to make AFEST pathways more reliable and roll them out more widely.
Training providers and companies can therefore:
- secure their POEI arrangements,
- improve how effective the pathways are,
- make it easier for tutors to take part,
- and speed up the onboarding of new staff.
Digital tooling thus becomes a genuine lever for transforming workplace-based training.
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