National Skills Week 2024
We’re celebrating National Skills Week from the 19th - 24th of August and we at GoFIGR couldn’t be more thrilled.
To keep you in the loop, National Skills Week is an annual celebration “dedicated to raising the profile of status of vocational learning.”
With its goal of debunking myths around employment and highlighting career opportunities for all Australians, National Skills Week is always an opportunity for:
- employees to explore new career opportunities and
- businesses to rethink how training and upskilling can support their teams.
That, right there, is the key purpose that we live and breathe every day. It’s just that there’s a bigger spotlight for this advocacy in the upcoming week.
We always get excited when it’s this time of the year – after all, we’re all about upskilling here at GoFIGR. But this year is particularly special as the theme deeply resonates with us.
It goes along with everything we stand for.
The theme for National Skills Week 2024 is:
It’s all about discovering how Vocational Education and Skills Training (VET) can be the ultimate game-changer in the careers (and lives) of employees across Australia through life-igniting paths towards professional success.
Game. Changer.
If that’s not a way to describe our perspective on upskilling, internal career mobility and unique approach to career progression, then we don’t know what is.
Beyond promoting VET, National Skills Week is also a perfect reminder for business leaders and HR managers like you of the value of investing in skills development and the role it plays in both personal and professional advancement.
In an era where industries and technologies evolve way too fast, adapting and acquiring new skills is crucial.
That’s exactly what this week is encouraging us to do:
Yes, upskilling is a game-changer for your business, too!
We know that this is a celebration of employees’ skills and career trajectories – but we can talk about the business benefits of upskilling as well.
After all, the employees who leave their roles rarely do it out of mere dissatisfaction with their current responsibilities – often, they only lack the support they need to grow and advance their careers.
That’s where upskilling comes into play – and these are the three key benefits you can take advantage of investing in employee training and development:
- Upskilling enhances employee retention.
Employees are more likely to stay with a company that supports their career development and offers a clear path to advancement. Providing opportunities for skill enhancement allows you to do this, thus engaging your team and retaining top talent.
- Providing training opportunities allows you to fill skill gaps internally.
As industries and markets change, so do the required skill sets. This means addressing skill shortages and empowering your team to protect them from redundancy. How exactly does that help your business? By developing the skill sets of existing employees, you’re reducing the need for external hires and its associated costs.
- You can also support non-linear career paths with upskilling.
And lastly – speaking of empowering your team – upskilling allows you to support the non-traditional career trajectories that today’s workforce often follow. This way, you can enable your team to pivot roles and explore new career paths WITHIN the organisation.
By investing in upskilling, you can truly embrace being a game-changer for your team this National Skills Week (and of course, beyond) to maintain a competitive edge in your space and maximise your business’ potential and efficiency.
National Skills Week 2024 is a timely reminder of the transformative power of ongoing education and training for Australian professionals – if anything, it’s a wake-up call for all of us to be game-changers so employees can unlock their full potential.
At GoFIGR, we’re striving to create a world where employees are empowered with new skills, which then empowers them to revolutionise the workplace and take the business to new heights.
May this week be a call to action for all leaders and managers out there:
Empower your team this National Skills Week with more game-changing internal opportunities.
You can utilise an Internal Talent Marketplace platform like GoFIGR to do this!
As a Software as a Service (SaaS) designed to collect and intuitively analyse employee skills data, GoFIGR allows you to supercharge your Internal Mobility and truly embrace a streamlined model of internal career progression.
Sounds like a true game-changer, right?
With valuable insights collected from your team, GoFIGR allows you to:
- identify your employees’ current skills
- align them with your business needs
- realise your team’s full potential
- reduce the cost of recruitment by upskilling from within
This way, you can open your employee’s eyes to potential career progressions and FIGR (Find, Inspire, Grow and Retain) young talent with data-driven strategies.
Celebrate National Skills Week by being a game-changer for your team and your business!
Your future team is already working for you.
Don’t let that talent go to waste – be a game-changer and allow them to grow their career AND drive your organisation into its tomorrow in ways you never thought possible.
It’s the ultimate way to build internal mobility and foster a progressive workplace culture to minimise your reliance on the hiring cycle.
It’s a great way to save crucial hours in your day as well.
Contact GoFIGR today to discover how we can help you foster a future-focused workforce using our Internal Talent Marketplace platform.
Helena Turpin spent 20 years in talent and HR innovation where she solved people-related problems using data and technology. She left corporate life to create GoFIGR where she helps mid-sized organizations to develop and retain their people by connecting employee skills and aspirations to internal opportunities like projects, mentorship and learning.
