There’s a concern in the HP partner community about spending the time and money to provide training and possibly even certification opportunities to employees. I hear it all the time: “What if we spend thousands of dollars to train an employee, and he just leaves the company when he completes the training?”
It’s a legitimate concern today. The job market for skilled IT professionals is so tight that highly qualified people are getting significant pay increases to change jobs. VARs worry that the people they train today are the ones heading out the door tomorrow. Then, not only is the company out the skilled worker, it has no way to recoup the investment made in that person’s training/certification, which could be considerable.
Of course, the issue is not “what if we train them and they leave?” but “what if we don’t train them and they stay?”
There is a cost of lost opportunity. If your people don’t have the right knowledge and skills to deliver the solutions and services that are in demand today, your company won’t get the lucrative business contracts you hope to earn. Or even worse – your company might earn the business and fail to deliver what the customer expects. Either way, this isn’t a business model that can sustain your company (let alone help it grow).
What do you think? Has your company found value in training, or are you fearful of making the investment and risking employee departures?
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