workforce development
Employee skill building
Workforce development is the coordinated effort to prepare people for employment and help them advance in their careers.
It encompasses job training programs, education initiatives, and skills certification, often funded by government agencies or industry partnerships.
The term appears frequently in policy discussions about economic growth and reducing unemployment: The city invested heavily in workforce development to attract new employers.
- reskillingLearning new work capabilities
- job trainingTeaching skills for employment
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
- trade schoolsJob-focused training institutions
- job creationEstablishing new work positions
career readiness · career counseling · community colleges · economic mobility · job placement services · back to work · apprenticeships · on the job · lifelong learning · skill acquisition · talent pipeline · labor force · internships · skills gap · soft skills · transferable skills · certifications · technical education
- employmentjob, jobs, career, careers, interview
- workforceworkers, employee, employees, labor force, employer
- adult educationadult education, adult learning, GED prep, adult classes, adult education center
- business activitiesmeetings, meeting, hiring, firing, training
- community servicesparks, family services, libraries, family support, schools
- recruitingrecruiter, recruiting, recruit, recruiters, headhunter
workforce developmentdeskilling
Reducing job complexity
worker exploitation · brain drain · talent drain · job elimination · downsizing
workforce developmentself-directed learning
Education you control yourself