Professional Development Consulting (CEP)

Verified 20 February 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

Would you like to take stock of your professional situation? Professional development advice (CEP) is a free and personalized support system that can meet your request. The CEP allows, if necessary, to establish a professional development project (reconversion, resumption or creation of activity...).) It may be carried out by advisers from different organizations. It is addressed to any person. We present you the information to know.

The CEP allows you in particular :

  • Express your request and clarify your need
  • To access personalized information
  • Develop a strategy to build and define a professional project
  • Verify that this project is feasible
  • Identify the skills or qualifications needed to succeed in this project
  • To be helped to find the funding.

FYI  

If you are employed in the private sector in a company with less than 300 employees, you can benefit from a CEP to prepare thecareer path interview.

The CEP is accessible to the following:

  • Private sector employee
  • Public sector employee (civil servant, contract worker or individual contractor)
  • Self-employed
  • Person looking for a job
  • Person with a disability
  • Craftsman
  • Liberal Profession
  • Self-employed
  • Young person out of school without qualification or diploma
  • Retired and student occupying or seeking employment.

Please note

Each employer must inform its employees of the possibility of using the CEP when professional interview.

An employee can, on his own initiative and without asking the agreement of his employer, benefit from a CEP by making an appointment with an advisor.

You can benefit from the CEP during your free time (examples: during a reduction of working time (RTT), in the evening, for a sabbatical leave or a leave without pay).

However, a branch agreement or of company may provide for the conditions under which the CEP may be carried out during working time.

FYI  

The site Legifrance make available the branch agreements. There are several ways to view a company agreement.

The way to make an appointment is not always the same depending on your status (employee, public official...).)

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General scenario

The organization with which you can follow the CEP depends on:

  • Your situation (employee, jobseeker, young person under 26 years...) old
  • And where you live (enter your city or postal code).

An online service allows you to find this organization based on these 2 criteria:

Find your CEP operator

Public Service Officer

Public service of the State

Contact your department's Human Resources department, where a Career Mobility Advisor (CMC) is appointed.

Territorial civil service
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You must contact the CNFPT: titleContent .

Other situation

You must contact your employer community or the departmental (or interdepartmental) management center.

Hospital Public Service

You should contact the National Association for the Continuing Education of Hospital Staff (ANFH).

Yes, the advisor within the CEP is held at discretion. Your personal information will therefore not be disclosed to your employer.

The delivery of the CEP (maintenance, advice and support) is free of charge.

The CEP is organized in 2 levels.

It is possible to follow only the 1er level and stop there.

1st level: individualized and adapted reception

It allows you to:

  • To proceed to a 1er level of analysis of your situation and your request
  • Decide on the possible continuation of your approach
  • Identify the actors who can help you.

Its objective is in particular:

  • To allow you to better know your professional environment (employment situation, evolution of trades...))
  • Identify possible approaches (aid, benefits, training...).)

Please note

The CEP can offer services remotely (e.g. by telephone).

2nd level: personalized support

It allows you to:

  • To clarify your request and access personalized information on employment, training, available funding...
  • Define and specify your needs and priorities for professional development
  • To be assisted in the formalization and implementation of this project (examples: financing plan and provisional timetable).

Unlike the CEP, the skills assessment allows you to analyze your professional skills and personal and your abilities and motivations. The aim is to define a professional project and possibly a training project.

Thus, the skills assessment aims to:

  • Draw your profile on a professional level to better know your assets
  • Confirm your professional choice or re-examine the rest of your career

The skills assessment is paid for and is accessible to all workers: employees, self-employed, job seekers.

Unlike the POC, in some cases, your employer may be aware that you have a skills assessment.

Indeed, he knows it as soon as you realize it in the context:

FYI  

You can take out a skills assessment through your personal training account (CPF) without informing your employer and if it takes place outside your working time

The skills assessment is limited to 24 hours, while the CEP is not limited in time.

However, these two systems can be complementary (example: a CEP can determine that the implementation of the project requires a skills assessment).

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