You should never stop learning, and with the opportunities available today there’s no excuse for an employer to prevent you accessing them. Even the least skilled job requires a certain degree of training, but good employers will go beyond the basics and offer ample opportunities to their staff. Whether on an informal basis in the workplace or in a structured format over a long period with organised classes held externally, training should be a continuous process throughout every employee’s career.
Besides the training offered by employers themselves, a range of nationwide work-based training schemes are available through which you can acquire specific qualifications. These schemes, often involving learning both at an employer’s premises and with a training provider, enable you to develop key skills that can set you up firmly in your career or provide the platform to make the leap to a new one.
Work-based training has several key benefits. It allows you to gain experience with an employer while you are learning, overcoming the “no experience” problem that job-seekers often face when they first try to find work. With some work-based training you will be employed from the very beginning, but if you’re not there’s a chance that the employer will want to take you on either later in your course or when it finishes, when you’ve developed the skills they need and shown what you’re capable of.
Work-based training is high-quality training designed by employers in your industry, it’s free, and by offering it your employer will be demonstrating a commitment to developing your potential.
