Indicator 24 — Watch on skills, trades and jobs

Indicator 24 is criterion 6's second watch. Where indicator 23 looks at training law, this one looks at your markets: how are trades, skills and jobs evolving in the sectors where you train? The goal is to avoid frozen catalogues disconnected from companies' and beneficiaries' needs. For new entrants, the reading guide provides an accommodation: at the first audit, the auditor checks that the watch system is established, even if its history is short.

What the auditor checks on the day

The auditor wants to understand how you stay connected to your sectors. They verify:

• relevant sources for your fields: sector observatories, OPCO studies, France Compétences, France Travail data, ROME job sheets, sector trade press;
• regular collection: a watch table, reading notes, participation in the sector's professional events;
• concrete exploitation: a module created or rebuilt after a trade evolution, a course's objectives adjusted, an obsolete offer withdrawn;
• for CFAs, consistency with local employers' skills needs and the diploma standards;
• for VAE and skills assessments, up-to-date knowledge of certifications, bridges and outlets used in the support;
• at a new entrant's initial audit, the system's existence: chosen sources, defined rhythm, first collections done.

Achieving compliance, step by step

1. Map your sectors and attach two or three specialist sources to each: the sector observatory, the professional federation, the reference annual study.
2. Subscribe and trace: sector newsletters, alerts on France Compétences and OPCO studies, France Travail publications on shortage occupations.
3. Log your useful reading in the same watch table as indicator 23, with a column distinguishing the watch type: one organisation, three indicators covered.
4. Exploit and document: every notable evolution must question your offer. Note the decision, even a negative one ("no impact on our programmes") — it is proof of analysis.
5. Once a year, run a formalised offer review: which courses to create, refresh or withdraw in light of the watch? That summary is a master proof.

Field advice

The most convincing exploitation example is a dated programme change tied to a precise source: "generative-AI module added following the sector observatory's 2025 study". Build two such examples before the audit and keep the before/after programme versions.

If you are a new entrant, do not simulate a year of watch: present a credible system, active subscriptions, two or three collections already made and a first exploitation, however modest. The reading guide's accommodation covers the evidence's seniority, not the system's existence.

Lean on your own clients: needs-analysis interviews, exchanges with companies and beneficiary feedback are perfectly legitimate trade-watch sources, provided you log them. A summary of an exchange with an employer about a trade's evolution is highly valued field evidence.

Finally, keep the three watches distinct to avoid audit confusion: 23 covers training regulation, 24 your sectors' trades and skills, 25 pedagogical and technological innovation. One table can host them all, but each row must be properly categorised and lead to its own exploitations.