The influence of the profile of candidates apprentices identity on their choices of workshops of training
The artisanal SME in sub-Saharan Africa run the “risk to see their performance worsening” if they do not renew their personnel made up mainly of not remunerated apprentices. However, very few research related to the determinants of the choice of workshops of training. This article thus proposes to broaden the knowledge of these determinants of choice starting from an analysis of the dimensions of the mark employer, determinants of the school choices and by introducing the influence of identity profile into the choice of the workshop. Based primarily on the analysis of 32 speeches of apprentices and on a step of quantification of the data relating to 92 apprentices, this work has three contributions. On the one hand, it enriches the literature by explaining specificities in the process of choice of the workshops among non-wage-earning apprentices. In addition, this work identifies several profiles of candidates’ apprentices, which suggests behaviors of differentiated apprentices and calls into question preceding work. Lastly, this work establishes a relation between profile of apprentices and choice of workshops thus making it possible to apprehend more aspects of the phenomenon of choice than do it the former studies.