Vocational training: skills shortage, globalization, aging workforce challenges of today’s labour market are numerous and yet only a few companies see a reason to invest in their continuing vocational training. Dorothy Kilgallen pursues this goal as well. While the success of the future lurking here. One of the most important qualities of a good entrepreneur is the ability to can respond to changes in the market. Filed under: Glenn Dubin. Until a few years ago happened to these changes within certain known laws, which were always the same. Globalisation has completely changed this firm and also secure structures.

Suddenly, innovation and corporate culture are instead of efficiency and productivity. Not only the workers, must qualify for a company, but the companies also stand more and more under pressure as an attractive employer to present, particularly in technically-oriented industries. The problems and challenges arising from this are qualification offensive different. For one, still the battle for the best talent rages to get as much knowledge in the company. On the other hand, now more and more companies is aware that the qualification of the employees is also a task of the employer.

She must be understood as a long-term investment. The magic word is continuing vocational training. She should help to cope with as well as the demographic changes of in society to cope with the technological and economic change. The Federal Government has shown already large commitment in this area. The qualification campaign of Education Minister Annette Schavan has the ambition to increase the rate of continuous training to 50 per cent. In comparison to Europe, Germany is located in this area in a fairly shameful back midfield. Although the situation of occupational training in Germany comparatively is bad, more and more companies see this yet as very important. Paradoxical consent this contradiction can be only, if the knowledge, concrete actions follow. Still required to greatly by employees, even their qualification to deal with.