FOREM has a twofold mission:

• An employment and training service for individuals (the organization undertakes to help the job-seeker find and land work as well as provide training based on their profile and aspirations);
• A recruitment and employee training service for employers.

Managing job offers is therefore a core mission of this public service. To cite a few statistics⁵, in 2000, FOREM recorded 234,568 job-seekers, who can be categorized as follows by sex and age group:

Age Group	Male	Female	Total
Under 25	27,010	30,927	57,937
25 -- 40	44,168	65,656	109,824
40 -- 50	24,488	28,876	53,364
50 or over	7,259	6,184	13,443
Total	102,925	131,643	234,568

That same year, FOREM managed 53,000 job offers distributed thorugh various channels such as postings at FOREM centres and partners, the "jobline", Internet, television, the print media and radio (with an 80.5% satisfaction rate). FOREM also dispensed (directly or through partnerships) a total of 18,000 training courses, which represents 6,548,527 hours of training.