Agence nationale pour l'emploi
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The Agence Nationale pour l'Emploi, or ANPE (English: "National Employment Agency" or "National Work Agency") was a French government agency which provided counseling and aid to those who are in search of a job or of training.

The ANPE was created in July 1967. In December 2008, the ANPE merged with the Assedic
ASSEDIC
Assédic is the partial acronym of "Association pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce" . Created in 1958, it was a French agency which collected and paid unemployment insurance contributions. It was associated to the UNEDIC agency, which set the amount of the contributions...

 benefits agency to create a comprehensive employment agency called Pôle emploi
Pôle emploi
Pôle emploi is a French governmental agency which registers unemployed people, helps them find jobs and provides them with financial aid. The agency was created in 2009, resulting from the merger between the ANPE and the UNEDIC . The agency employs 45.000 civil servants...

, based on those of Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and the UK.

Activity

The National Employment Agency (ANPE)'s main task was to encourage meetings between supply and demand
Supply and demand
Supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It concludes that in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded by consumers will equal the quantity supplied by producers , resulting in an...

, to help jobseekers find new jobs and help employers hire. With more than 3.7 million job entrusted by companies in 2007 and more than 3.3 million successful hiring, the ANPE was a central player in the labor market
Labour economics
Labor economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labor. Labor markets function through the interaction of workers and employers...

. It was open to all job seekers, whatever their situation, compensated or not. In 2007, 19 million maintenance consultants had been made. The main tasks were helping the unemployed back into work, supporting companies in their recruitment requirement, fighting against discrimination. To assist job seekers in their search, the agency offered services.

From 1 January 2006, ANPE offers all job seekers receive monthly monitoring with a personal adviser referral until their return to employment. To facilitate recruitment, the ANPE had a partnership with 568 000 companies to promote the adequacy between supply and demand, including developing the skills of job seekers by training.

The ANPE administrations employed 28 459 people in France in 2007. The ANPE claimed 15 million visits per month on its website, anpe.fr. It had more than 1 300 settlements across France, with 22 regional units to define priority action plans in each region. The central administration gave the direction, planning implementation and assessing results.

Recent evolution

In 1996 the registration of jobseekers was transferred to the Assedic
ASSEDIC
Assédic is the partial acronym of "Association pour l’emploi dans l’industrie et le commerce" . Created in 1958, it was a French agency which collected and paid unemployment insurance contributions. It was associated to the UNEDIC agency, which set the amount of the contributions...

 to simplify the process.

In 1997, the official website was launched; it is now the first European website for jobs. From 2002, it has been possible for job seekers to demand jobs directly on the website. From 2003, it has published anonymous CVs profiles on the website. In 1998 the Observatoire de l'ANPE was created to publish studies.

In 2004 a National Plan against the recruitment difficulties was launched, and in 2005 an Emergency Plan
Emergency management
Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the continuance of the...

 for Employment was implemented. From 2006, a monthly personalized with a counselor referent has been implemented.

In 2008, a new public agency was created, resulting from the merging of the ANPE with the Unédic
UNEDIC
- Official name :The official acronym was UNEDIC, but it was commonly written Unedic. However, the acronym was sometimes written UNÉDIC or Unédic. From 2009, the official name is Unédic...

 administration.

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