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This final chapter builds on previous chapters from the complete volume. The author responds to the issues raised in previous chapters through discussion of a hypothetical unified European Union vocational education and training (VET) profession. Through this fictional model the author explores VET professionals' role in promoting flexibility, transferability and mobility in the workforce. The author explores the challenges facing VET professionals and the potential influence they hold over shaping the workforce. It is suggested that VET professionals have limited influence in comparison to more powerful players and stakeholders in the VET system, and thus their powers of promotion with regard to flexibility, transferability and mobility are dependent upon others' support. Enhanced professionalism may contribute to flexibility, transferability and mobility, but it is not a conclusive approach to enforcing these concepts on the workforce and key stakeholders.