Skills Training Focus in Italian Enterprises: Continuing Vocational Training Patterns 2010-2020

Key Insights

• Specialist Skills Dominance: Specialist skills consistently show the highest training focus, with 57.9% in 2010, 57.5% in 2015, and 46.0% in 2020, showing a declining trend in recent years.
• Rising Focus on Other Skills: “Other” skills category showed significant growth from 10.8% in 2010 to 41.3% in 2020, indicating emerging training needs.
• Problem Solving Decline: Problem-solving training dropped dramatically from 32.5% in 2010 to 11.6% in 2020.
• Customer Handling Reduction: Customer handling training decreased significantly from 31.5% in 2010 to 13.5% in 2020.
• Management Skills Decrease: Management training fell from 24.5% in 2010 to 13.1% in 2020.
• IT Skills Evolution: Professional IT skills showed resilience, declining from 21.0% in 2010 to 13.8% in 2015, but recovering to 16.3% in 2020.
• Minimal Numerical Literacy Focus: Numerical literacy training remained consistently low across all years (4.1% in 2010 to 0.3% in 2020).

Chart Information

Chart Type: Multi-series Line Chart

Colors Used: Primary color #18baa8 with complementary shades for different skill categories

Time Period: 2010, 2015, 2020

Data Source: Eurostat dataset trng_cvt_29n2 – Total across all NACE sectors