Training is key
With the development of EV projects, electro-technology- and electronics-based professions should experience strong growth over the next years and be increasingly valued.
Recruitment and changes of profession will lead to new jobs and career opportunities seeing the day. “We are going to need new positions”, confirmed Pablo Thorner at Renault. This shake up at work means training, the essential condition to have of new professions and personnel qualifications accepted. The sector is thriving. At the GNFA (National Automotive Training Group), a training body specialised in after-sales professions (with 17 centres and 300 trainers across France), “it’s action stations”, declared vocational specialist Christian Moulon. “Demand has exploded over the past two years and there are more and more partnerships with automotive marques (PSA, Toyota and Mercedes)”.
In fact, the body works actively with manufacturers in order to adapt its technical training content to the models that will soon be on the market. “As of September, we will be in phase with the first production runs that are planned for the end of 2010 and early 2011”.
Graduate training possibilities are also increasing in the field of electro-mobility. Two new Master degrees have been created this year by prestigious schools. A consortium consisting of ENS Cachan, IFP, Supélec and Centrale Paris is offering a course entitled “Sustainable Vehicles and Transport, specialised in Automotive Electrification and Power”. And Arts et Métiers ParisTech, ENSTA ParisTech, Mines ParisTech and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech have created a Master’s degree in “Electric Mobility and Vehicles”.
“This course can lead to careers within companies or national or international organisations abroad or in France”, stipulates Philippe Degobert, head of the Master degree programme. For him, there is no doubt, “there is genuine demand today in the recruitment of engineers specialised in this field”.
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