Businesses and institutions keep repeating it: the digital sector is lacking candidates and “recruiting at full capacity with 1.75 million new jobs to be filled in Europe over the next eight years. The big problem is that in the minds of too many French people, these positions are aimed at geeks: men, young, rather wealthy and good at math. So many received ideas that limit the number of vocations. This is reported by an OpinionWay study carried out for École 42 (carried out from February 2 to 3, 2022 with a sample of 1016 people aged 18 and over) that we reveal exclusively.
While 88% of those questioned perceive the job prospects offered by tech or the attractiveness of salaries (79%), more than six out of ten people still think that these jobs are accessible with a high level of qualification (66 %) and that training is expensive (70%). “In the collective imagination, deciphers Sophie Viger, director of the school founded by Xavier Niel, IT is a complex universe and as such, expensive. “However, in addition to recalling the free school 42, located in 5 cities in France, the director also cites that of the Grande école du numérique, a training network.
The pool of women in retraining
As for the level of diploma, Sophie Viger recalls that it is not necessary to be an engineer and bac + 5 to be authorized to take this path. Moreover, she recalls that in her establishment, 31% of those enrolled are without a diploma or baccalaureate level, 21% up to bac+2. people in retraining with sometimes very atypical profiles: from the engineer with a diploma in the reproduction of trees to the specialist in hieroglyphics!
And it is because digital technology attracts people in retraining that these professions are in no way reserved for young people, contrary to another received idea. This is also why Sophie Viger dropped the age limit to enter Ecole 42, then set at 30 years old. With women in focus. “They represent a large reservoir in the 30-40 age group because they realize late that it is also possible for them when they are not good at mathematics”. “IT is a form of logic, of common sense” insists Sophie Viger again, who wishes to assure the fairer sex that their chances are the same as those of their male counterparts.