Recruiting an apprentice
Are you looking to recruit an apprentice?
As a recruitment tool to meet the need for skilled labour or a skills shortage in a particular business, work-linked training offers a number of advantages for companies.
Training an apprentice facilitates their integration into the company and enables them to acquire specific skills. As a result, they are more likely to be hired with confidence once they have completed their training.
A RECRUITMENT SOLUTION TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS
The 3rd year of BUT is offered on a sandwich course basis to students from theIUT d'Avignon University and enables the company to train new employees to adapt their skills to its businesses and ensure the long-term development of its activities.
The content and organisation of work-linked training courses are tailored to the recruitment problems faced by companies in their sector of activity. Work-linked training is a way of dealing with a shortage of applicants for jobs that are in short supply.
CONTROLLING WAGE COSTS
Training an employee on a sandwich course enables the company to make substantial savings compared with taking on a conventional employee. To compensate for the effort involved in training work-study students, work-study contracts offer lower minimum levels of pay than those offered to ordinary employees, and the company does not count its work-study students when calculating its workforce (and the resulting obligations).
FORWARD-LOOKING MANAGEMENT OF JOBS AND SKILLS
Adapted to the needs of companies with immediate recruitment requirements, work-linked training is also a way of preparing for the eventual recruitment of skilled employees to meet future needs.
Recruiting a young person on a work-linked training scheme is a good way of anticipating the company's growth, without running the risk of weakening it financially, as the employer is not obliged to offer a job at the end of the work-linked training contract.
Work-linked training can be an investment in preparation for eventual permanent employment to meet the company's development objectives.
EXTENSION OF SUPPORT FOR APPRENTICESHIP CONTRACTS UNTIL 2027
What is the amount of aid for hiring a work-study student?
The amount varies according to the size of the company's workforce:
Less than 250 employees
The maximum amount of aid is €5,000.
It is only granted for the 1st year of the contract.
This amount is prorated according to the number of months actually worked.
Worth noting
Whatever the size of the company, if the apprentice is disabled, the amount of aid is €6,000 (maximum). For more details, please see the content on aid for hiring a disabled person.
250 employees or more
The maximum amount of aid is €2,000.
This amount is prorated according to the number of months actually worked.
Companies with 250 or more employees are eligible if they meet one of the following two conditions:
Attain at least 5 % of contracts promoting professional integration (apprenticeship contracts, professionalisation contracts, etc.) in the total annual salaried workforce, by 31 December of the year following that in which the contract was signed (i.e. 31 December 2026). This rate of 5 %est is equal to the ratio between the workforce covered by contracts promoting professional integration and the company's total annual salaried workforce.
Achieve at least 3 % of alternating work-study students (apprenticeship or professionalisation contracts) and have achieved an increase of 10 % of alternating work-study students by 31 December of the year following that in which the contract is signed (i.e. 31 December 2026), compared with the annual number of employees in these categories (apprenticeship contracts and professionalisation contracts) at 31 December of the previous year (i.e. 31 December 2025).
What you need to know
Once the date of 31 December 2026 has passed, the Agence des services de paiement (ASP) will send the company an "attestation sur l'honneur" to be completed so that it can declare whether or not it has met its target obligations. The ASP will carry out checks, in particular via the DSN, to ensure that the targets have been met.
Worth noting
Whatever the size of the company, if the apprentice is disabled, the amount of aid is €6,000 (maximum). For more details, please see the content on aid for hiring a disabled person.
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN APPRENTICE AND HAVE SPECIFIC NEEDS?
You will find below, according to your needs, information relating to our different GOALS
- Do you have other needs? The 108 other IUTs in France offer other specialities if you'd like to find out more:
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK-LINKED TRAINING OFFER?
You can return the Company Presentation, containing a detailed description of the work-linked training assignments at our one-stop shop :
iut-avignon-entreprises@univ-avignon.fr
For more information, please contact : Hélène COUPELLIER, Business Development and Corporate Relations Officer - Tel: 07 64 82 18 81
Updated on 26 August 2025