Skills for Working are The Essential Ingredient for Getting People Back to Work

ESG Group - Delivering Skills for Working and Skills for Living

The UK is undergoing its worst recession in living memory and in parallel with the economic downturn there is an unprecedented and continuing increase in job redundancies in practically every sector of the UK market place. With unemployment predicted to top the three million threshold there is growing concern of the countries job situation.

In the past six months alone the UK has witnessed a severe deterioration in trade and economy with thousands of once successful businesses simply collapsing under the financial restraints imposed on them, along with fall the jobs of those employed by the company.

In preparation for the inevitable increase in the numbers of unemployed there is also consideration being addressed for those who are going to require retraining for work. Many employees made redundant by the economic downturn are finding themselves in position they have never done before - a position whereby their industries have simply disappeared. Many will have been in their roles for years and they will have attained great experience and skills, unfortunately these might simply but put to rest as they are no longer required. Getting people back to work is the priority and skills for working is the primary focus of the government and many private training companies and organisations