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Streamlining Professional Development
Solving the Challenges of Managing CPD Progress
In today's rapidly evolving professional landscape, continuous learning and development are vital for individuals to stay ahead. Unfortunately, 60% of professionals say they find it difficult to track their development because the process can be a complex and time-consuming task. The 4 most common reasons are:
- The Burden of Paper-Based Certificates: Traditionally, professionals relied on physical certificates to validate their accomplishments. This approach often resulted in misplaced or damaged certificates, making it difficult to provide evidence of their CPD progress when needed. MyProPass addresses this challenge by offering a secure digital storage solution, eliminating the hassle of managing and safeguarding paper-based certificates.
- Tracking and Verification Complications: As professionals engage in various development activities, tracking and verifying their CPD progress become increasingly complex. This problem intensifies when individuals pursue learning opportunities from multiple training providers, making it challenging to consolidate and present a comprehensive overview of their achievements. MyProPass provides a centralised hub that enables professionals to track and manage their CPD progress efficiently, simplifying the process of verification and ensuring a holistic view of their development journey.
- Limited Access to Diverse Professional Development Opportunities: Identifying and accessing relevant professional development opportunities can be a daunting task for individuals. The lack of a centralised resource often means missing out on valuable training programs and industry events. Through our partnership with training providers, we offer a vast array of professional development opportunities, empowering individuals to explore diverse learning avenues and enhance their skill sets conveniently.
- Inefficient Certificate Distribution and Management for Organizations: For organisations, managing the professional development progress of their employees can be time-consuming and prone to errors. Traditional methods of distributing physical certificates to numerous recipients pose logistical challenges and may result in delays or misplaced documents. Our platform streamlines this process by enabling organizations to effortlessly distribute verified digital certificates to multiple recipients, ensuring efficient and secure delivery while reducing administrative burdens.
The challenges associated with managing CPD progress can hinder professionals' ability to showcase their accomplishments and stay competitive in their fields. Our comprehensive suite of tools addresses these challenges by providing a streamlined solution that simplifies the storage, tracking, verification, and distribution of digital certificates. Embrace the power of our platform and experience a seamless and efficient approach to professional development.
Tackling the Top Challenges Head-On
What is the problem? It is no surprise that the UK construction industry has been experiencing prolonged skills and personnel shortages which has resulted in cost increases, reduced productivity and declined interest from younger generation to fill the gaps. While this problem is not new it has in 2020 hit new heights in shortfall of skills which has not been seen since the recession of 2007. This problem is only expected to get worse over coming months and years. According Office for National Statistics (ONS) the demand for skills is outstripped supply significantly in 2020. This is also in sharp contrast from government efforts to build 300,000 new homes every year in England alone and continue to spend on new major infrastructure projects. With an ageing workforce and a dwindling pipeline of skilled young workers to date, about a quarter of all construction industry vacancies cannot be adequately or permanently filled, because employers are unable to recruit staff with the right skills, qualifications or experience. How can we make a start in resolving it? Employers need to start thinking strategically to support long term growth of the businesses by digitising, investing and encouraging the workforce to develop lateral industry specific knowledge and skills alongside soft skills such as technology, communications, management and problem solving. To ensure that upskilling, reskilling and lateral skilling initiatives meet the needs of the entire industry, there needs to be joined up thinking and collaboration between professional membership trade bodies and industry training providers to ensure high quality and relevant training is easily accessible and available. We at MyProPass are playing a key part in skills and digitisation agenda by providing professionals with a free and secure portal where they can search for training, CPDs, skills and events while ensuring the knowledge is captured as digital certificates which can be used and shared to find new opportunities and career pathways.
