And don’t fear training employees only to have them poached by a competitor. Recognize that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to training. So what can companies do? First, think of training as an investment, Osterman said.
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Osterman said one of the reasons companies are having trouble recruiting people is their own internal supply chains have atrophied due to a lack of employer-provided job training. “But if you're just kind of ignoring those people with respect to who you train, you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot.”Ī 2021 survey from research non-profit The Conference Board found that 80% of human capital executives said it was hard to find qualified workers. “If you're a manufacturing firm or a biotech firm and you need technicians, if there's frontline workers out there who are not at that level yet, you could train them up into those technician jobs,” Osterman said.
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What’s missing, Osterman said, is skills training: learning how to do your job, and the one above it on the career ladder. The survey shows a majority of workers get workforce behavior training, orientation training, and safety training. Opportunities to invest in internal employees “Informal training is widespread, and it's important, but there's obviously some sets of skills that you can only do in a classroom or in front of a computer, or working on a piece of machinery, or learning how to code,” he said. And there’s no substitute for employer-provided, on-the-job training, Osterman said. But people with lower education levels had less confidence and familiarity with those external training opportunities. Osterman’s survey does show that workers will seek out their own training at a place like a community college, through formal online courses, or just watching YouTube videos. Factoring all types of workers together, 55% said they received formal training from their employers, and 47% said they received informal training from their companies. Less than half of all surveyed Hispanic workers received informal training, while just 32% of high school educated workers received informal training. Freelancers also received less formal training at their client sites, and in terms of informal training lagged behind standard and contract employees by as much as 36%. Only 38% of contract workers received formal training from their legal employer, and even less training at the site where they were assigned. “But for people at the bottom of that, they're not getting skills and training, they're not getting enough training from the place where they're assigned to work, they're not getting enough training from their staffing agency.” “A high-end information technology person could be a freelancer, but so is the security guard or the building cleaner.
Osterman also delineated the “non-standard jobs” of contract workers and freelancers those findings are expanded in a related working paper. Survey respondents answered questions about formal and informal training and whether they sought job training on their own. Leave this field blank Bad news for the bottom of the job ladder
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