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As economies change and industries are restructured, transferable skills are becoming increasingly important in assisting employees to move between occupations. This research identifies growing and declining occupations across Australia, assesses how the vocational education and training system cultivates transferable skills and explores how well workers facing retrenchment understand their transferable skills. It is found that transferable skills perform an invaluable role in an employee's cross-occupational mobility. However, there is more that can be done to improve recognition of transferable skills, as well as the way they are developed in the training system and understood in the labour market.

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Transferable skills are increasingly important for occupational mobility and securing employment in a turbulent 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. [The presenter] found that workers' understanding of their skills is often limited to a technical view of skills. Drawing upon these findings from forthcoming work, [the presenter] outlines a collaborative and coordinated framework for assisting displaced workers.

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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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