Where a corporate trainer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a corporate trainer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Corporate trainers train, coach, and guide employees of a company to teach and improve their skills, competences and knowledge in accordance with the needs of the company. They develop the existing potential of the employees to increase their efficiency, motivation, job satisfaction, and employability.
Also known as corporate education professional, professional development coach, trainer of corporate employees, corporate professional trainer, workplace training specialist, skills development coach, in-company trainer, skill development trainer, educational planner, trainer in corporate sector, skill development coach, corporate training specialist.
Professionals 36 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: business coach, 51%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A corporate trainer needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- teach corporate skills communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide feedback to performers communication, collaboration and creativity
- training subject expertise education
- adapt teaching to target group communication, collaboration and creativity
- adult education education
- adapt training to labour market information skills
- coach employees communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor developments in field of expertise information skills
- apply intercultural teaching strategies communication, collaboration and creativity
- demonstrate when teaching communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a corporate trainer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- further education teacher 67% covered · difficulty 35.2
- corporate training manager 62% covered · difficulty 39.2
- first aid instructor 44% covered · difficulty 55.9
- public speaking coach 42% covered · difficulty 56.4
- business coach 28% covered · difficulty 68.3
- assessor of prior learning 19% covered · difficulty 75.8
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Corporate trainer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a corporate trainer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.