I'm Interested In Work Based Learning
People at all stages of their career need to learn new skills throughout their working lives. This makes work based learning a continuous activity in any workplace establishment and an exciting career to choose, as things rarely stand still.
WBL can broadly be defined as providing any sort of training that equips people with the skills to perform their jobs. You might work in the workplace itself, identifying training needs of employees and co-ordinating development programmes, or you might work for a training organisation that is contracted to provide instruction to employees and assess skills. You might also deliver Government funded training programmes such as Apprenticeships.
The key work areas include:
. Training and human resources departments within commercial, industrial and public sector organisations such as retailers, manufacturers, financial companies of NHS trusts, National and specialist training providers, Private training providers, Further Education colleges, Third sector training providers, Universities, The armed forces and other uniformed public services, Prison, probationary and pupil referral services.
The majority of the workforce are specialists in their chosen field or sector, for instance engineering, catering, construction, hairdressing, IT, insurance, agriculture or horticulture. There are specialist instructors for more generic topics like health and safety, communications, general management, sales and marketing. The list is quite extensive, making work based learning a good career choice for people who possess commercial and sector specific experience and who want to try something new.
Case Study
Take a few minutes to read the testimonial of Rebecca Senior - Trainer and assessor in work based learning.
Or download it here: Rebecca's case study
