Continuing professional development

Vocational training is every educational process which extends an existing vocational education or extended. It takes place in the form of organized learning. Were preceded by earlier stages of education and periods of employment. If the training come from the company, one speaks of continuing vocational training.

Molding

Companies that want to train their employees have the choice between general seminar and workshop offerings, and specifically to the company tailored in-house training.

E -learning can perceive the employees both at work and from home.

We distinguish:

• Familiarization,
• Training,
• Retraining,
• Purchase of additional qualification
• Autodidactic education,
• Service training
• And other training activities for example workplace.

A newer type of professional development that seeks to combine theory and practice, the learning on the job: It is used to incorporate a worker on a new, but the previous activity similar job.

Training on the job is also a form of professional development that is being stated in German with " learning by doing ". It takes place at the workplace, both in the training phase as well as in the routine phase, only to be avoided by introducing further and new aspects in the activity sequence, the blindness in a company or rückzubilden.

A special form of training are teachings. So calls § 12 Section 1 of the Employment Protection Act, that the insured be trained adequately and appropriately. Trigger for an instruction are for example Adjustment or displacement, changes in duties or changes in the work processes. In the context of voluntary work in the press developments are prescribed tariff.

Financing

The professional development is partly during working hours, partly in the leisure, such as on the weekend, instead. The employee thus also participates in time. Employers and employees often share the costs. Basically, professional development can be financed

• By the employer,
• Through which further fine itself,
• With public funds, for example, by the Agency for work, funding the federal states or the EU
• Or by a combination thereof.

As far as it is not is funded by the Federal Employment Agency or other payers training or retraining for the unemployed or undergoing rehabilitation, vocational training is a voluntary effort of the employee, for the costs he has to pay himself. Therefore, professional development is also to be distinguished from job training, for example in the context of personal development management, where a company is continuing at its own expense employee or perpetuates form. A special case of vocational training, the retraining in a different from initial vocational dar. There are also special promotions for career advancement, such as the so-called master - federal financial aid under the Career Advancement Training Promotion Act, the education savings and various other grants of federal or state.

Examples

An innovation is the IT specialists 2002 agreement to " work process -oriented IT Training " AITTS dar. reflection and documentation of acquired in real operational work projects competences is supported here by learning facilitators, and these competences are certified in regulated qualifications.

Other forms of continuing vocational training are:

• Medical training
• Ph. D.
• Habilitation
• Administration and Business Academy
• Master's certificate
• Senior Network Consultant
• Certified Designers
• Certified Restorer in crafts
• State-certified technicians
• Corporate University
• Operating computer
• Telephone Training
• Learning Islands
• Continuing education, non- consecutive master degree programs

Background

The rapid technological progress in the knowledge society and the associated need for lifelong learning require it to obtain professional skills and professional knowledge, even after the initial training to adapt and expand. But even unskilled professionals who were only trained for their work and can not be formed, continued professional development. In some professions, such as in school or in therapy, vocational training is considered essential and coupled the practice permit to a regular attendance. In other professions, continuing education is a must in order to compete against competitors can, as is vocational training for the unemployed or for women after the family phase of advantage to increase the chances of re-entry into an occupation. - In a broader sense it is in vocational training for the acquisition of additional qualifications for existing fundus. Basically, is now assumed that professional training particularly worthwhile in the long term.