employment training

Workforce skill development

Employment training is instruction designed to prepare people for jobs or improve their work skills.

It ranges from vocational programs teaching specific trades to workplace sessions on new software or procedures.

Government-funded employment training often targets the unemployed or those changing careers: She enrolled in an employment training program after the factory closed.

Related

skills · skill building · soft skills · certification · vocational · trade school · resume · cover letter · career · mentorship · onboarding · seminar · bootcamp · upskilling · career change · workforce · placement · coaching

Opposites
purpose/applicability

employment trainingliberal arts education

Broad, non-vocational scholarly training

general education · pure research · classical education · philosophy degree · personal enrichment

employment status trajectory

employment trainingretirement

Leaving the workforce permanently

unemployment · early retirement · job loss · job termination · layoff

structured vs. unstructured development

employment traininglearning by doing

Acquiring skills through practice

trial and error · autodidacticism · street smarts · life experience

Family

employment, training, employ, train, employed, employing, employer, employee, employees

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G