Between resilience and renewal : OPCA on the eve of the reform on "the freedom to choose one’s professional future"[Entre résilience et renouvellement : les OPCA à la veille de la réforme sur « la liberté de choisir son avenir professionnel »]

This article proposes to highlight the profound renewal of the context in which the OPCA have been moving for 20 years, until the threshold of the 2018 reform which will see them transformed into OPCO. The observation of four OPCA makes it possible to observe a structural transformation of their interventions and service offerings over the course of legislative reforms ; reforms that will be sources of multiple tensions before which the OPCA will show a real capacity to adapt. Then emerges the figure of an OPCA which has become a real intermediary on the labor market. This major change, which has often gone unnoticed, will disturb the professionalism and identity of the profession of adviser within these organizations. Also, the relative success of this institutional conversion comes largely from their ability to ambidexterity.