Vocational Training has established itself as one of the preferred training options in our country, both for younger students who are looking for professions with quick and quality access to employment, and for workers who want to specialize, change sectors or improve their skills. labor sphere.
The needs of companies, which are looking for qualified professionals to perform jobs that require technical and specialized training, find the answer to their needs in vocational training graduates.
In fact, 37% of job offers published in Spain require a vocational training degree. Data that will increase, since, according to the European Commission, by 2030 companies will need 65% of professionals with a Vocational Training degree, compared to 35% that will require professionals with university studies.
With this, VET is the most in-demand training in Spain for the second consecutive year, above university degrees. In this sense, it is increasingly considered as a solid educational alternative with a high degree of employability.
In response to the growing demand for VET graduates, ILERNA, a leader in distance Vocational Training with a history of more than 50 years in the educational sector, offers the possibility of studying more than 30 official training cycles in sectors that have a great demand in the labor market.
Jordi Giné, CEO of ILERNA, declares that “improving the employability of young people and optimizing the competitiveness of companies is the driving force of ILERNA. “We are the tool for young people to train in those professions that companies demand and we provide qualified personnel to the labor market in those most requested areas.”
The demand for specialized professions in different fields by the labor market makes VET the studies with the highest employment rates today, reaching 42.2% compared to 38.5% for university studies, according to the latest studies of the State Employment Service (SEPE).
Health is one of the sectors with the highest degree of labor insertion in Spain, so studying a vocational training in this branch ensures you the possibility of having a stable future job and being able to progress in your profession. The areas related to Administration and Management or Information Technology and Communications are also among the most demanded by companies.
Among the vocational training degrees with the most job opportunities are the Intermediate Degree in Auxiliary Nursing Care or the Higher Degrees in Pathological Anatomy and Cytodiagnosis and Clinical and Biomedical Laboratory, in the healthcare field; as well as the training cycles of Web Application Development or Administration of Networked Computer Systems in the field of technology.
The ILERNA training model allows you to choose between four study modalities: face-to-face, blended, dual and online. This last option is the most valued by the center’s students, since it adds the possibility of taking VET remotely and with great flexibility that allows you to study where and when you want, reconciling your personal, professional and work life.
In this way, people who are working part- or full-time or who have responsible responsibilities can update their knowledge, retrain professionally and even change sectors without having to give up their job, family life and leisure.
In the words of the company’s CEO, Jordi Giné: “at ILERNA we work to offer vocational training programs through the Internet, which allows both young people and adults to study from anywhere and at any time. The flexibility and accessibility of distance education are the hallmark of ILERNA, where we focus on the needs of the students.” And he adds, “we will always seek to offer specialized training so that students can acquire the most relevant skills.”
In the online mode, the student has access to a virtual platform that can be accessed at any time and from any device. Through it you can access all the academic material, attend the video classes, contact the teaching staff and carry out the proposed work.
Throughout their training, students have the permanent support of the teaching team, specialists in the different sectors taught and with extensive professional experience. They guide the student throughout the course, providing them with the tools and providing them with the necessary experience so that they learn to develop their profession in a practical and real way.
Furthermore, strategic alliances with leading companies in each sector are essential, both to enhance the talent of students and promote their employability, and so that students can carry out Training in Workplaces, better known as company internships.
ILERNA has ten centers spread throughout the national territory in the cities of Barcelona, ??Madrid, Lleida, Tarragona, Seville, Cádiz, Córdoba and Valladolid. This year, it is committed to continuing to expand its presence in the country with the opening of its first center in Castilla y León and the inauguration of a second vocational training center in Cádiz, located in the old Croft warehouses.
In all ILERNA centers, students have the technological tools and equipment that simulate a real work environment, and they learn to function in situations that they will have to face when they enter the world of work.
More than 100,000 students have been trained in ILERNA classrooms. Last year, more than 30,000 students chose this training center for various reasons, among which the study methodology and the high employability rate of its degrees stand out.
