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ONE IN SIX WORKERS are retrained and ready for new careers
NEW SURVEY HAS revealed
A that nearly one in six ( 15 %) employees working in the UK have already retrained for a new role or profession . Their current employers just don ’ t know it yet .
HR software provider CIPHR polled over 1,000 workers to find out how many people have retrained and made a career shift since the start of the pandemic . The findings suggest that nearly one in three ( 30 %) have either already retrained and changed the industry they work in or have paved the way to do so by upskilling and retraining .
Senior managers seem the most open to pursuing different career paths , with one in four ( 26 %) high earners having already retrained and made a change . A further 27 % have retrained but have yet to start their new line of work . In comparison , just a quarter ( 23 %) of non-managerial staff have retrained ( 10 %) or retrained and made a career change ( 13 %) during this time .
Perhaps unsurprisingly , age does have a significant bearing on the results . Only one in 10 ( 9 %) survey respondents over 45 retrained and changed careers during the pandemic , compared to around one in five ( 18 %) 25-to-44- year-olds and nearly a third ( 31 %) of 18-to-24- year-olds . Notably , a quarter ( 23 %) of the over
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EARNING MORE
MONEY AND UPSKILLING ARE THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DRIVERS FOR CAREER RETRAINING .
55s who had to retrain , or change careers , did so because they were made redundant , twice the number ( 12 %) of 18-to-54-year-olds .
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