The Individual Operational Readiness (IOP) is financial assistance enabling a jobseeker, an employee recruited in insertion contract or a disabled worker, to be trained to be able to respond to a job offer.

This assistance may be awarded to the employer who undertakes to recruit the candidate, after the training period.

To benefit from the Operational Preparation for Individual Employment (POEI), the employer must have submitted a job offer to France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi), in a sector that has recruitment difficulties.

The employer undertakes to hire the jobseeker.

The employment contract concluded by the jobseeker and the employer must be one of the following contracts:

• Contract of indefinite duration (CDI)
• Interim permanent contract
• Contract of professionalization of at least 6 months
• Apprenticeship contract of at least 6 months
• Fixed-term contract (CDD) of at least 6 months
• Seasonal contract of at least 4 months
• One or more mission contracts concluded with a company of temporary work of at least 6 months within 9 months of the training.

The IRB is for an employer who hires one of the following:

• Job seeker registered with France Travail, indemnified or not, to whom a job requiring adaptation has been proposed
• Disabled worker employed in an adapted company
• Employee recruited in employment support contract (CUI-CAE)
• Employee recruited in employment initiative contract (CUI-CIE)
• Employee recruited in Fixed-term contracts through an economic integration structure (SIAE).

The POEI can be addressed to a collective of employees. The training then meets needs identified by a branch agreement or, in the absence of an agreement, by the board of directors of a OPCO (formerly OPCA): titleContent.

The Operational Readiness for Individual Use (OREP) scheme can finance up to 450 hours of training.

Training can be provided or by an internal training organization to the company, or by an external body.

Live training by the employer, in the form of tutoring, may also be set up. The employer then chooses from among the employees of the company, a voluntary guardian with at least 2 years of professional experience in relation to the skills necessary to occupy the offer submitted to France Travail. The tutor may not simultaneously perform his duties in respect of more than 3 job seekers in operational preparation for individual employment (POEI).

A training " hybrid , combining theoretical training within a training organization and tutoring, is also possible.

The training organization must be declared and QUALIOPI certified. This is a regulation that demonstrates the ability to deliver quality training. Without this certification, France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) will refuse the request for assistance.

The amount of aid varies according to the cost of the training.

• When the training is carried out in all or part of tutoring : the aid is capped at €5 maximum net per tutoring hour
• When the training is carried out by a internal or external training organization to the company or in hybrid mode : the aid is capped at the amount of the quote established by the training organization and validated by France Travail.

The conditions of payment depend on the way the training is carried out:

• Internal training organization of the future employer or tutoring: the aid is paid directly to the employer
• External training organization: the aid is paid directly to this organization
• Hybrid training (tutoring and theoretical training): the aid is paid to the employer, who is obliged to pay the training organization the amount of the validated quote.

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The aid from France Travail is paid after training and at the earliest on the day of hiring.

All procedures are done with France Labor (formerly Pôle emploi).

1. Submission of a job offer from France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) or from its OPCO (formerly OPCA):

2. Selection of a candidate : the employer identifies a candidate for the proposed job after training. France Travail can help him in the search for a candidate.

3. Request for assistance from France Travail:

4. Development of a training plan with France Travail which specifies the following elements:

• Location of training
• Educational objectives and competences that the candidate must acquire
• Selected training organization, content of the training, conditions of performance

5. Signing an agreement with France Travail (or its OPCO), the training organization and the candidate, before the start of the training.

This agreement shall contain the following information:  

• Objectives, duration, funding of training
• Estimated date of hiring
• Type of employment contract covered

6. After signing the envisaged employment contract, transmission by the employer to France Travail (or its OPCO (formerly OPCA)) of following items :

• Invoice specifying the scheduled training hours and the hours completed
• Assessment of the training action
• Copy of the concluded employment contract
• COMPANY RIB (or External Training Provider RIB)