Employer training schemes fail to provide employees with relevant skills

45% of employees feel that their company’s L&D schemes are not relevant to their day-to-day job needs.

A third of employees feel that their on the job training will not help them earn a promotion in the near future, according to Spherion Staffing’s latest Emerging Workforce study.

The study found that almost one quarter of the employees surveyed consider online training and certification from third-party sources to be better educators than their workplace.

However, the research found that 45% of companies have increased their investment in training employees, despite only 14% of employees grading their company highly (A) for the availability of training resources.