Last updated on 1 September 2025
We like to repair, restore, repaint, sell, repair. Whether you like thermal motors or electric motors. Whether you have always been passionate, have a taste for challenge or want to feel useful, the professions of car, truck, motorcycle and bicycle services offer all these possibilities.
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Discover more than one hundred essential professions at the service of users and professionals
From mechanic, expert technician, salesman, lessor, technical controller, driving instructor, demounter-recycler, convenience store… Discover the profiles of these local trades, essential in everyday life, that make the world go round by allowing the mobility of people and goods.
Covering all activities related to the life of cars, motorcycles, trucks and bicycles, from leaving the factory to recycling, these professions offer many training and career opportunities that appeal to a growing number of young people.
Supportive technical courses and rapid, tailor-made and certifying training
The concreteness, the terrain, and certain opportunities for graduates of the automotive services branch. These sectors continue to see their numbers increase, particularly in dual training.
Alternately, we are directly projected into the professional world, we learn by doing
Lalternation is an excellent opportunity to train in car/motorcycle/truck/bike services as closely as possible to the reality on the ground, while acquiring real professional experience that facilitates recruitment. 73% apprentices are in employment six months after the end of their training, more than three quarters of whom are in the target occupation of training, says the Observatory of Automotive Service Occupations.
En ten years, the number of alternators has doubled in the sector, illustrating the strong and growing attractiveness of these professions to young people, and also the appetite of companies in the sector to train the next generation of skilled employees.
These trades and the training that leads to them are open to all and have more and more women, including in trades long remained exclusively male such as body-painting.
Evolving professions, conducive to skills development and career development
In the midst of the green transition, the automotive services sector is undergoing a transformation that is leading to the emergence of new professions related to the maintenance of batteries and charging stations. The maintenance professions that make up the heart of the sector are also evolving, leading those who practice them to acquire a dual skill enabling them to maintain both thermal and electric motors.
This sector is not experiencing the crisis but continued growth over the last decade in terms of recruitment.
The branch also offers real career development prospects for making rapid progress towards positions of responsibility, specialising or retraining throughout their career in the industry, thanks to the diversity of existing positions and the many pathways offered by training.
Tools created to accompany you and make you discover the professions
To allow you to share, exchange, inform your students, discover and introduce them, we have created many supports at your disposal : well-detailed posters, condensed business leaflets, a YouTube channel and even a comic book, as well as an advertising spot “ We have a world to run recalling the essential role of these professions on a daily basis.
ANFA website: https://www.metiers-services-auto.com/
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