Registering a certification with the RS or RNCP is an excellent development strategy for training organizations that provide training in strategic skills for the job market. That said, it’s far from an easy task.
Our customers often ask us how to present job offers in the Opportunity Note. The Opportunity Note is one of the central documents in the file, and it’s not always easy to know how to structure it. Let’s take a look together!
Why include job offers in the opportunity note
As you know, your registration application must provide tangible, quantified proof that your certification is essential to the market, that it will certify skills that professionals need and that will increase their employability.
In this context, putting job offers in the opportunity note is an excellent strategy. They’re real proof, external and verifiable, and they come directly from recruiters! It’s a piece of data that comes directly from the sector, and carries a lot of weight in your demonstration.
Select 5 relevant offers
But it’s not enough just to throw out a few job offers, you also have to use them in a demonstration ! The aim is to show that the market corresponds perfectly to your frame of reference.
We recommend that you include around 5 job offers in your opportunity note, to ensure that they are both diversified and representative, but don’t include 50 either!
The key word is diversity. It’s not very interesting to put up 5 offers that are exactly the same! First and foremost, you need to make sure that all your skills (RS) or all your blocks (RNCP) are represented when the offers are added up. Don’t forget, we want to show that you’re in line with your reference framework!
If your certification applies to several professions, include offers for these different professions or sectors. Similarly, if your certification is aimed at both salaried employees and self-employed workers, include examples of both types of contract. Or, for a profession that works internationally, put in different country examples, depending on what you’ve explained in your market study and reference document.
The job offers really need to support all the demonstrations that have been made before in the note, as well as being consistent with the reference framework.
Finally, even if we’re only going to use a few offers, you can put up a small screenshot of the total number of offers that exist to date for the job/skill!
Highlight their consistency with the reference system
You’ve chosen your offers – diversified, complete and hot? Great! But we’re not stopping there. Here are a few tips for highlighting your offers in the opportunity note:
- Use captures
Yes, it’s less aesthetic than a link, but it’s durable! A common mistake is to put the link to the job offer, except that… The instruction lasts months, and a job offer is removed from the sites as soon as it’s filled! By placing links, there’s a good chance that the instructor will never actually see the job.
So it’s best to include screenshots, and in the case of very long offers, to download them in PDF format and add them as an appendix to the file.
- Highlight skills on capture
Yes, as you now know, the whole point of the job offers in the opportunity note is to prove that they match your skills set. We therefore advise you to annotate your screenshots directly, highlighting the skills requested in the reference framework. This will not only help you to check that you have all your skills or blocks, but will also be visual and easy for the instructor to check!
You can also add a short paragraph after the screenshots, explaining and detailing certain key elements of the offers. It really depends on your certification, offers, specificities, etc.!
- Make a table of matching ROME / Offers / Referential
Finally, to drive the point home, you can create a matching table. In the first column, write down the skills from your ROME file. In the 2nd column, note in which job offer(s) they are found. Finally, in the 3rd column, note in which skill (RS) or block (RNCP) it is found.
Normally, all your job offers should be in the table, and therefore “useful for something”. In an RNCP, the vast majority of ROME skills (or even all of them, depending on the case) must be linked to at least one offer and one block. For an RS, on the other hand, only some of the ROMEs need to be linked to your referential, but each skill in the referential must be linked to an offer.
And there you have it, with all that, you should have a good basis for proving the value of your repository thanks to the job offers in the opportunity note!
That said, don’t forget that this is general advice, and that each certification and each market has its own specificities. If you’re in any doubt about which strategy is right for you, contact us so we can take stock of your specific situation!
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