Do you want to get to know yourself better and (re)build a realistic career plan that reflects who you are, motivates you, and respects your values, needs, and pace?

A skills assessment is right for you if:

• You wish to change careers and fully explore the possibilities because you haven't yet considered any career ideas,
• You wish to begin a career change towards a profession you enjoy and you want to confirm that you are well suited for this project,
• Your current job lacks meaning and you want to boost your motivation.,
• You wish to prepare your retirement project with pleasure and complete peace of mind,
• You want to choose higher education that suits you and is relevant to your future career.

• Anyone who feels the need can embark on the adventure, whether employed or not: middle school students, high school students, university students, young professionals, private or public sector employees, job seekers, self-employed individuals, business leaders, seniors and retirees.
• Because in addition to your career change, we also support you in defining your academic path with My Compass's assessment or to best prepare for your retirement with the end-of-career assessment.
• All of Aktasens' services are adapted or adaptable to people with disabilities.

Depending on your professional and personal situation, you can finance your skills assessment by:

• Your CPF (Personal Training Account): you can use your balance or request additional funding from France Travail or your employer. Please note that since March 2026, the maximum amount allocated by the CPF is €1,600 for a skills assessment, and there is a remaining cost of €150 for individuals who are not job seekers or who do not receive additional funding from their employer.
• Your OPCO
• Your company
• Your CSP France Travail
• Your personal budget

What the Labor Code tells us:

Article L6313-4:

The purpose of skills assessments mentioned in point 2 of Article L. 6313-1 is to enable workers to analyze their professional and personal skills as well as their aptitudes and motivations in order to define a professional project and, where appropriate, a training project.

This assessment can only be carried out with the employee's consent. An employee's refusal to consent does not constitute misconduct or grounds for dismissal.

The information requested from the beneficiary of the assessment must be directly and necessarily related to its purpose. The beneficiary is required to answer in good faith. They will receive the detailed results and a summary document. This summary document may be shared, upon request, with the professional development advisor mentioned in Article L. 6111-6. The detailed results and the summary document may not be shared with any other person or institution without the beneficiary's consent.

The persons responsible for preparing and holding the financial statements are subject to the provisions of Articles 226-13 and 226-14 of the Penal Code with regard to the information they hold in this capacity.

The duration of the skills assessment cannot exceed twenty-four hours per assessment.

Article R6313-4:
The skills assessment mentioned in point 2 of Article L. 6313-1 comprises, under the guidance of the service provider carrying out this assessment, the following three phases:

1. A preliminary phase whose purpose is:

a) To analyze the request and the need of the beneficiary; ;
b) To determine the format best suited to the situation and the need; ;
c) To jointly define the procedures for carrying out the assessment; ;

2° An investigation phase allowing the beneficiary either to build their professional project and verify its relevance, or to develop one or more alternatives; ;

3. A concluding phase which, through personalized interviews, allows the beneficiary to:

a) To familiarize oneself with the detailed results of the investigation phase; ;
b) To identify the conditions and means that promote the realization of the professional project(s); ;
c) To plan the main modalities and stages of the professional project(s), including the possibility of benefiting from a follow-up interview with the skills assessment provider.