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The fact that you have to go with the times can also be seen in the field of professions. The data sounds the alarm: by 2030, 75 million to 375 million workers (or 3 to 14 percent of the global workforce) will have to change their profession. This is what the labor market requires. There are such changes taking place, which in consequence cause the extinction of some professions and the creation of others. The aim of restructuring professions is to adjust to the labor market.
Profession only on paper
Nowadays, there are sometimes absurd situations. On the one hand, we have thousands of vacancies for employees in the profession of a salesperson (a broadly understood term), and on the other hand, also thousands of people are registered as unemployed in labor offices, although their profession is a salesperson. It is similar with, for example, hairdressers, mechanics and locksmiths. It happens that such a person would even go to work in a learned profession, but education alone is not enough. What is also important is competences, skills (e.g. acquired during trainings) and predispositions, and these are sometimes missing. The employer, in turn, will not accept a person who does not meet his expectations. Therefore, he will not offer a job to a woman who, although she graduated from a commercial school in the 1980s, is not able to use a cash register and a payment card terminal.
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The solution is a retraining
Many unemployed people (and not only them) are aware that the employment market has changed over the course of several dozen, dozen or several years and now requires different, often more complex, skills or competences than years ago. If a person does not want to develop, he treats the training offer as a necessary evil, and the invitation to the workshop as a punishment, it will rather soon fall out of circulation. Sometimes restructuring is actually seen as a necessary evil. Nevertheless, since the company focuses on modernity (while maintaining its identity and tradition), the employee is also obliged to move forward, not backward.
Polish mentality
The problem is that Poles are not as eager to change their profession or at least expand the scope of their skills as the staff in the West. Our people are afraid of changes that are associated with uncertainty. They treat what is foreign and unknown as bad. The fact that the proverbial Kowalski refuses to participate in the training, fearing that he will not pass the final exam, will not guarantee that he will still have a certain job in the current company. However, when he does and finishes the training, his situation in the current company will surely improve.
Don’t look back
Abroad, although it looks more and more like in Western countries in our country, employees know that employment stability, an adequate level of remuneration and a social package will be guaranteed if the employee makes progress. The same applies to the unemployed. If he looks back when unemployed, i.e. he tries to find a job in a company in which the boss accepts his imperfections, he will be in a losing position. He should use more free time to, for example, obtain certain desired qualifications on a course or go to studies or school. Sometimes, however, expanding qualifications will do nothing and it is necessary to change the profession. Decades ago, laundresses, ironers, umbrellas (repairing and selling umbrellas) or repassers (repairing torn stockings) and grooms had jobs. Today, hardly any young person is able to indicate where the plant in which the representatives of these professions work is located.
Lifelong learning
An accountant, HR, lawyer, insurance agent, bank employee, IT specialist, construction manager, social worker, forester or surveyor must be up to date with the rules and other regulations. They learn throughout their professional lives because they have taken jobs that require it. They will stay in the market (read: they will have a job) if they agree to develop, invest in their development or the company invests in them. Sometimes you don’t have to enroll in 5-year studies right away to progress. It is enough for an employee or an unemployed person to complete a computer skills course, get a driving license, obtain a forklift license or learn a foreign language at a language school.
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Companies and organizations cannot force people to develop, but they can mobilize them to expand their competences or even retrain. It is not uncommon for a former employee of a factory that no longer exists to trade or is an insurance broker. It changes the company, it changes the industry, it changes its world, but thanks to that it has its own way. And it also goes straight.
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