Cross-occupational skill transferability: challenges and opportunities in a changing economy
As economies change and industries are restructured, transferable skills are becoming increasingly important in assisting employees to move between occupations. This research identifies growing and declining occupations across Australia, assesses how the vocational education and training system cultivates transferable skills and explores how well workers facing retrenchment understand their transferable skills.The report found that transferable skills perform an invaluable role in an employee’s cross-occupational mobility and suggests that more can be done to improve recognition of transferable skills both in the way they are developed in the training system and understood in the labour market.
Publication
Cross-occupational skill transferability: challenges and opportunities in a changing economy
Supporting Documents
Identifying declining and growing occupations and changing skills demand in Australia - support document 1
Examining the transferability potential of skills developed within the Australian Vocational Education and Training system - support document 2
Occupational mobility and skills transferability of worker in transition: systems, perceptions and processes - support document 3