Vulnerable workers and occupational mobility

Transferable skills are increasingly important for occupational mobility and securing employment in a changing labour market. This is particularly so for workers made redundant from declining industries and occupations. However, how workers in this position come to understand and utilise their transferable skills is not well understood. This webinar examines how vulnerable workers, and the various key training and employment transition actors who work to assist them, understand the importance of transferable skills and seek to apply them in finding new occupations and/or making...  [+] Show more

Transferable skills are increasingly important for occupational mobility and securing employment in a changing labour market. This is particularly so for workers made redundant from declining industries and occupations. However, how workers in this position come to understand and utilise their transferable skills is not well understood. This webinar examines how vulnerable workers, and the various key training and employment transition actors who work to assist them, understand the importance of transferable skills and seek to apply them in finding new occupations and/or making retraining choices.

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