In Germany, too, the business community has bemoaned the insufficient credentials of many young job applicants. But education cannot just be confined to the first third of a person’s life. Rather, learning should be a lifelong process. For employers, this basically means that they need to facilitate access to professional training and development for their staff.
These barriers are rightly attracting attention in Canada as differences in regional economic performance and shortages of skilled labour are becoming more pronounced, and as demographic challenges intensify. A number of initiatives to remove internal barriers have been undertaken over the years, but with mixed and generally modest results.