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Learning & Development Institute, founded in 1969, is the professional body representing members concerned with Learning and Talent Development in Ireland.
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Ireland's Ageing ...
Ageing workforces is the subject of a recent OECD report which focuses on helping workers progress their careers or switch jobs when wanted or necessary.
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Springboard+ 2023 ...
Springboard courses for 2023 have been launched offering 11,000 places over 357 different programmes with an aim of upskilling and retraining workers.
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Fostering Skills Use
Research investigates how organisations can harness employee skills to sustain their competitive performance in profitability, production and employment
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Attracting and Retaining ...
Analysis for learning & development professionals on the OECD report on attracting and retaining talent for business competitiveness
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Irish job market ...
Employment market is trending upwards in Ireland, which is of interest to Learning & Development professionals
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Towards 2023 - European ...
boost investment in training and upskilling opportunities for workers seeking to acquire in-demand skills, the European Commission has made 2023 the European Year of Skills.
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Spotlight on Life Sector ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Life Science sector in Ireland comprises 500 Biopharmachem and Medical Devices companies with clusters of activity in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Mayo, Waterford, and Athlone. The sector employs 50,000 people directly as well
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National Skills Bulletin ...
Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The National Skills Bulletin 2020 produced by SOLAS (published this week) assesses Ireland’s labour market in 2019 and how the effect of COVID-19 has impacted on occupational employment outlooks in 2020. During 2019, employment c
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Expert Group on Future ...
Expert Group report shows further improvements in the Irish labour market and an intensifying of skills shortages in certain areas The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) published the National Skills Bulletin 2015, which provides an overview of employment trends at occupational level. Wel
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Reskilling Revolution to ...
By Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an increase in unemployment across the world. In Ireland, the unemployment rate has risen to 16% with young people (15-25 years) hardest hit with 38% unemployed. The importance of inv
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Building Future Skills
By Gerard Walker Senior Economist, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Demand for Skills in Ireland’s Built Environment Sector to 2030 The Expert Group on Future Skills has just published a report which identifies the skills required by the Built Environme
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Reaction to Budget 2022
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Department of Finance expects that the Covid-19 adjusted unemployment rate, which includes everyone on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, will fall to 9.25% this year. This is down from the peak of 19% recorded at
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SKILLS FOR GREEN JOBS IN ...
By Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Government’s 2020 Budget Statement highlights that the defining challenge of our generation is to ensure that the economy can grow while reducing our carbon emissions impact. Transitioning to a low carbon economy is a
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National Training Awards ...
Abbott Ireland, Vascular Division scoop top prize at 2020 National Training Awards Abbot Ireland’s Vascular Division scooped the top prize at the National Training Awards last week. Abbott Ireland Vascular Division, which is based in Clonmel, County Tipperary, landed the Over
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OECD Review of Ireland's ...
By Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work-Insights Ireland's current National Skills Strategy is to be reviewed as part of a joint project between the State, stakeholders in the skills sector and the OECD. The review, led by the OECD, will focus on how Ireland is equipped to mee
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Logistics and Supply ...
By Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights Excellence in Logistics and Supply Chain Skills capability is vital for Irish enterprise competitiveness and regional development. Along with the distribution of freight goods around the country, some 80% of Irish manufacturing output is ex
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European Company Survey ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights “Workplace practices unlocking employee potential” Findings from the 4th European Company Survey 2019 carried out by Eurofound and CEDEFOP indicate that companies with high performance workplace practices sc
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Government publishes ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skill-Work-Insights Following on for a call for public submissions in July 2020, the Government published a Making Remote Work - National Remote Working Policy. The IITD was pleased to make a submission on how the existing
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Personal and Work-Life ...
Job and Life Satisfaction and Barriers to Work, CSO, April 2022 By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work-Insights Remote workers and those who operate a hybrid work model were most satisfied with their job according to the recent CSO Personal and Work-Life Bala
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Gay White elected as new ...
The IITD is delighted to welcome Gay White as its new President following her election at the Institute's AGM last week. Newly elected IITD President Gay White Gay succeeds Kevin Hannigan who has served as President of the Institute for the past four years and expertly led t
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July Jobs Stimulus 2020
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work-Insights The Government's July Jobs Stimulus is aimed at helping businesses to protect jobs and create new jobs, supporting people without jobs, especially young people, building confidence and solidarity in consumers and communities and starti
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OECD Report: Training in ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work-Insights This recent OECD report investigates what, why and how enterprises provide training. It presents evidence from 100 qualitative cases studies of medium and large sized companies from five countries: Ireland, Austria, Estonia, Franc
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Digitisation as ...
“Two sides of the coin” By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs Skills-Work-Insights Initial findings from the s
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Planning for the ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, 32% of the labour force are currently in receipt of state support payments including 530,000 on COVID-19 pandemic support, 210,000 on the normal unemployed benefit, and 27,000 on COVID-19 illnes
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The Circular Economy: ...
Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Government has recently published Ireland’s first Circular Economy Strategy 20
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Ireland’s Jobs Market: A ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights Total employment is now at 2,506,000 - almost 150,000 higher than prior to the pandemic, according to recent employment data figures for 2021 recently released by the CSO. The figures enable a comparison with tw
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IITD Response to Budget ...
Targeted investment and upskilling crucial Budget 2020 highlights growing risks to the global economy and uncertainty relating to the timing and form of the UK’s exit from the EU. The central scenario of Budget 2020 is preparing for the risk of a No Deal Brexit. It anticipates that in
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Remote Work In Ireland ...
The Government's research paper on Remote Work in Ireland is a deliverable of Future Jobs Ireland 2019, which places a focus on fostering participation in the labour force through flexible working solutions. Such solutions are increasingly a priority from a range of perspectives, from sust
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Upskilling and ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights An EU conference on Upskilling and Reskilling in the Post-covid Era took place over June 29th and 30th, 2021. This online event of European and USA presenters focussed on the upskilling and reskilling ch
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Measuring Employee ...
Many organizations are using a variety of ways to measure employee engagement in an effort to understand the connection to organizational results and to establish a barometer on the level of engagement in their culture. Recently, the researchers at The Ken Blanchard Companies launched a study to w
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Pathway to Work Strategy ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs Skills-Work-Insights This new Government Pathways to Work Strategy is designed to drive employment recovery in Ireland. It comprises a key element of the Governments Recovery Plan, which aims to exceed pre-crisis employment levels by 2024. The Strategy is fr
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National Training Awards ...
Woodie’s scoop top prize at 2021 National Training Awards IITD CEO Sinead Heneghan with Woodie's Training and Communications Co-Ordinator Sean Henderson Learning and Development Organisation of the Year Winner: Woodie’s Pearse Walsh Award, presented by Ha
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Government announce an ...
By Gerard Walker Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights Some 17,000 upskilling and reskilling training opportunities within Higher Education have been announced by the Government. This includes 11,100 new places for people seeking to upskill or reskill under the Springboard+ 2020 programme and an ad
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IITD Comment on Budget ...
Invest in future proofing workforce skills to drive employment growth and enterprise productivity and innovation Irish Institute Training & Development response on the Budget 2019 Statement Responding to the Budget Statement Sinead Heneghan, CEO IITD commented “
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IITD welcome provision ...
The backdrop to the framing of Budget 2021 is indeed challenging. It includes managing the economic and
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Passing of former IITD ...
Dolores Carr-Wicks, Past President IITD and IFTDO from Letterkenny, Co.Donegal It is with great sadness that one of the great characters of IITD passed away on Friday, June 19th. Dolores was a great personality and was forever omni present for a period of 10 years in the 1990s and early pa
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Maynooth University ...
Maynooth University Department of Adult and Community Education are asking for submission from the public on how policy for adult learning could be re-framed, adjusted or developed. The department is undertaking research in relation to policy under REGIONAL, a European research project which is ta
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IITD book launch: New ...
August 2020 IITD is delighted to launch our commissioned publication: LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT in ORGANISATIONS: STRATEGY, EVIDENCE and PRACTICE. Authored by Prof Thomas Garavan and his co-authors, Amanda Cahir O’Donnell, Claire Gubbins, and Carole Hogan, thi
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Public Consultation on ...
By Gerard Walker, Future Jobs-Skills-Work Insights The Department of Business, Enterprise, and Innovation held a Public Consultation on remote working guidance this summer in terms of how the existing guidance on remote working could be improved with some 520 submissions being made.