Training Paris transportation workers to be proud of their work

Each year, the RATP recruits approximately 1,500 people who work with transport users, bus drivers and underground workers. The majority of these recruits are aged between 25 and 30. Since the RATP would also like to recruit people in a younger age-group (18-25), it offers professional contracts which alternate between a paid training period in the RATP and study courses lasting one year. The first part of these contracts enables them to learn more about the company, its rules and values as well as the professions associated with the job which the young people want to do ultimately, while at the same time offering refresher courses to provide them with the necessary knowledge in mathematics, French and English in order to carry out their future job without any problem. This is followed by a second part which includes a six-month period of pure professional training. As a result of this system, managed by Patricia Le Berre, the RATP is able to prepare 200 young people each year for jobs in the company.