NEWS - 18/05/2010
Online Staff Training Key to Filling Skills Shortage
As new research from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) reveals that demand for highly-skilled people will intensify during the recovery, discover how online staff training can offer an affordable training solution.
The survey, answered by 694 employers which together employ over 2.4 million people and represent companies of all sizes and sectors, found that demand for highly skilled employees will continue as the economy begins to grow, but the majority of employers fear they will not be able to find people with the skills they need to fill high-level jobs.
Half of employers (51%) are concerned they will not be able to fill posts requiring the right graduate level or higher skills in the coming years, and a third (32%) don't believe it will be possible to fill intermediate level jobs, requiring skills equivalent to A level.
A third (30%) of employers predict the need for lower-level skills will decrease, while just 17% say it will increase. Interestingly, more firms this year (48%) than last (39%) say improving leadership and management skills is a key priority for them.
“As we move further into recovery and businesses plan for growth, the demand for people with high-quality skills and qualifications will intensify,” says Richard Lambert, CBI Director-General.
“Employers across all sectors recognise there is a need to improve the calibre of leadership and management skills.”
A survey of more than 1,000 company directors undertaken by the Cranfield School of Management found that three quarters of those surveyed felt that training their existing staff was more beneficial to their business than recruiting people from outside. Read More: Channel Sales eLearning Vital to Business Recovery.
Online Staff Training via Academy Training
Hiring new staff can be an expensive process for any business with recent studies showing that companies can spend as much as £5,000 recruiting the average employee, with costs increasing significantly depending on how senior the position.
A far better investment for companies is to build a dedicated elearning academy in order to help train staff. The demand for eLearning services for teaching things such as online sales training or improving product knowledge has grown significantly as the business world looks for affordable ways to meet training demands.
Fully hosted online academies not only support your staff training needs in a cost effective way via affordable product knowledge training and online assessment, but it will also act as a resource for knowledge sharing within your business, too.
Creating and delivering eLearning is an extremely effective way of providing targeted, powerful training in the most cost efficient way. Find Out more about elearning services with Growth Engineering. Telephone: 01753 840 331, Email: info@growthengineering.co.uk