Personal Training Account (PTA) of a job seeker registered in France Travail

Verified 31 May 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

You are at least 16 years old and you are a job seeker with or without compensation? You have a personal training account (CPF). Just create it even if you have never worked. The CPF lists the acquired rights to training. Your CPF is not powered during your period of unemployment. To know your acquired rights, log in directly to your CPF account. We'll lay out the rules for you.

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Yes, even if you have never worked, you can create your CPF. He will be credited with 0 euro. However, its creation allows a third party (example: France Travail) of theabound.

The creation of the CPF is possible whether or not you are compensated by France Travail.

If you were an employee before registering for France Travail, your CPF is credited in euros. Indeed, the CPF is attached to you and not to your status.

To create your CPF, go to My account training in the section dedicated to creating an account:

My Training Account

To create this account, you need to know your Social Security number. It appears in particular on your Vital card.

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You can also download the My Training Account app (via AppleStore or PlayStore) to your mobile phone.

Once set up, the Personal Training Account (CPF) is accessible on the same My Training Account online service.

Your account gives you personalized information. In particular:

  • Acquired and used rights
  • Training courses available to you
  • The funding methods for the training you can receive.

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If you have forgot your password or if you no longer have access to your email, the My Training Account site tells you what to do.

This includes training aimed at:

  • Acquisition of a qualification (diploma, professional title, professional certification, etc.)
  • Acquiring the knowledge and skills base
  • Support for the validation of experience (VAE)
  • Skills assessment
  • Creation or resumption of a company (training courses must focus on skills acquisition) exclusively linked to the management of the company; they must therefore not be specific to the exercise of a trade in a particular sector of activity)
  • Acquisition of skills necessary to carry out the missions of volunteers in civic service
  • Funding for the preparation of theoretical and practical tests of all categories of driving license subject to conditions.

Please note

France Travail can assign a driver's license aid B.

The terms of use of the CPF vary depending on whether or not your CPF fees are sufficient to fund the training.

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Sufficient CPF rights

You select from the catalog of all the training courses eligible for the CPF the training you are interested in.

Then, you complete your training registration directly online.

You pay the costs of your training yourself via your CPF.

Your training rights are deducted: your CPF then displays the new amount of your available rights.

My Training Account

Insufficient CPF rights

In this case, you can use all your acquired rights to finance part of the cost of your training.

The other part may be financed by abundances other actors (examples: France Travail, the region).

This demand for abundance can be done directly via My Training Account.

My Training Account

No CPF rights acquired

Actors (examples: France Travail, the region) can carry out abundances on your CPF.

This demand for abundance can be done directly via My Training Account.

My Training Account

Rules differ depending on the length of your training: less than or more than 40 hours.

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Training up to 40 hours

You don't change the category. You continue to be a jobseeker and receive the allowance as such (example:return-to-work allowance).

Training of more than 40 hours

If the total duration of your training is more than 40 hours, you will change your enrollment category to France Travail.

You become a trainee in vocational training.

The training is funded in full with CPF fees

The situation varies depending on whether the Return to Employment Assistance (RWA) is paid or not.

The person is collecting the RCA

You continue to receive the same amount under thetraining return-to-work allowance (AREF).

If your Return to Employment Allowance (RWA) stops before the end of your training, talk to your counselor.

Other

It is recommended to ask your France Travail advisor.

The training is financed with additional funding outside France

The situation varies depending on whether the Return to Employment Assistance (RWA) is paid or not.

The person is collecting the RCA

You continue to receive the same amount under thetraining return-to-work allowance (AREF).

If your Return to Employment Allowance (RWA) stops before the end of your training, talk to your counselor.

Other

It is recommended to ask your France Travail advisor.

The training is funded in part by the CPF and by France Travail

The situation varies depending on whether the Return to Employment Assistance (RWA) is paid or not.

The person is collecting the RCA

You continue to receive the same amount under thetraining return-to-work allowance (AREF).

If your Return to Employment Allowance (RWA) ends before the end of your training, you may, under certain conditions, receive the end-of-training remuneration (RFF).

Other

If you do not receive any compensation, you can receive the training remuneration France Travail.

Please note

If you are a jobseeker at the time of enrollment in the training and you are a beneficiary of thespecific solidarity allowance (SSA), inquire with your France Travail advisor

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