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By Debbie Carter (June 2009 Issue)
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As the recession deepens, many of us will naturally start to worry about job security. After all, marketing and training have traditionally been earmarked for culling long before any other function. But with learning now being acknowledged as a cornerstone of success, it doesn’t seem quite so probable that training and L&D departments will be downsized in this recession.

Last month, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills published its first progress report. Ambition 2020: World Class Skills and Jobs for the UK challenged administrations and business leaders to “redouble their efforts to raise their ambitions and the nation’s skills to prevent the UK slipping behind international competitors over the next decade in jobs, productivity and competitiveness”.

Chairman Sir Mike Rake said: “If the UK is to continue to wield economic clout way above its physical size, we must exploit our human capital resources to the full. We need to make sure that the vast untapped resource of talent latent within the UK workforce is developed and turned into skills, jobs and productivity.”

If this isn’t a clarion call to our profession, I don’t know what is. It is now even more important to ensure our own skills are honed and ready to meet the challenges facing our L&D departments over the coming weeks, months and years.

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