“How to Use Upskilling to Progress in Your Career”
COVID-19 has brought an unease across workforces across the UK. If your plans were to secure a promotion in 2020 and now they’re just to maintain your role as redundancies loom, you may be looking for ways to show your value to your employer. Or you may have found yourself in the unlucky position of unemployment and are not quite sure where to go from here.
Recent statistics show that a higher percentage of people who are employed in managerial, professional and associate professional occupations had participated in training courses, compared to people who were employed in intermediate, routine and manual occupations.
Whilst this sounds an obvious assumption to make, it does prove that if you want to climb the career ladder, upskilling will place you in a stronger position.
Paul Lewis is the MD at Pitman Training, specializing in delivering career-orientated training for adult learners. Here are his top tips for helping you to choose your training and development route.