Jobseekers have been urged by the CIPD not to scrap plans for training, despite the worsening jobs market.
The current state of the jobs market in the UK should not deter people from boosting their skills through training, a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has said.
Dr John McGurk, advisor on skills and learning for the CIPD, claimed that training still has a vital role to play for British jobseekers, with its importance set to grow in the future.
He said that although unemployment is currently on the rise, there are still many areas in which well-trained candidates with good skills can find jobs.
"There are still lots of jobs around but they may not be in an area where people have trained for, so people really need to work with various support that government gives," Mr McGurk commented.
He warned against taking the approach of "why get trained because there are no jobs", an attitude which he believes is missing the point.
"It's about people basically using training as a way of getting back in the labour market," he explained.
McGurk added that the UK employment market can often be "dynamic", with different types of jobs appearing at different times, many of which will require different skills and training.
The outlook for employment on the UK has grown darker this week, with major employers such Ericsson, J Sainsbury and Burberry becoming the latest to announce redundancies.
According to recent predictions from the CIPD, there will be 300,000 redundancies during the first quarter of 2009 and at least 600,000 jobs lost during the course of the year.
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