France: La Poste steps up efforts to train employees and apprentices on data and AI

One year after its creation, the data and AI school at French postal service group La Poste has awarded 17 diplomas to employees who have taken part in its “pioneering courses”, which enable them to retrain after taking up their new post. Over a period of six months, they were able to learn about data analysis and data visualisation, and took up expert positions in the finance, information and human resources departments, where most of them were already working. In the latter department, a trained employee is in charge of the internal social database. “We are fervent advocates of work-linked training, including for internal retraining, with employees who are over 40 or 50.…