Half (50 per cent) of employers are offering training to upskill their employees in light of current hiring challenges, a survey has revealed.
The study found that in response to recruitment challenges and skills gaps, a third (33 per cent) were offering an apprenticeship programme and a quarter (26 per cent) were offering bursaries and scholarships in underskilled areas of the business.
The survey of 501 UK employers by Remote found that the majority (82 per cent) had been impacted by the ‘Great Resignation’ in the past year, and 92 per cent struggled to fill job roles. As a result, more than two in five (43 per cent) said they would be more open than last year to negotiating training benefits as part of their attraction and retention strategy.
Jon Ingham, director at Strategic HR Academy, said organisations broadening out their resourcing activities were on the right track, and that “upskilling the existing workforce often provides a more effective basis for developing organisation capabilities”.
He added that most companies and individuals were “not engaging in anything like the amount of development that we should all be doing today – including within HR”, and advised organisations to look at “injecting more learning into the flow of work and providing deeper development experiences” by creating new challenges in people’s job roles that will facilitate “...
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