Research conducted Hellenic Statistical Office (ELSTAT).

The survey covers 2020, was conducted in businesses with more than 10 employees, and shows that only 17.8% of Greek businesses offered some kind of vocational training program or other form of staff training. It also demonstrates the long, if not critical, path that modern entrepreneurship must take, especially in new conditions and requirements. In fact, the percentage is down from a similarly low 21.7% in 2015, while at the European Union level the picture is even worse: in 2020, Greece was at the very bottom of in-house training, just one place above the latter. Romania (17.5%) is well behind Hungary (37.7%) and the European average (67.4%).

From the results of the Greek survey, it is striking that in all business sectors in 2020, the most important reason for the rejection of such programs is that the existing professional qualifications of employees are sufficient for the current needs of the business (74.8%). ), and the second reason is that they prefer hiring “ready-made” employees as a business strategy, i.e. people with the necessary qualifications (64.3%). And this is with a simultaneous increase in the number of companies citing a lack of talent to fill the required vacancies. This rationale appears primarily in non-construction industry companies (66.9%), trade, transport, accommodation and catering (65%), as well as real estate, entertainment and service provision (63.6%). Of course, it should be noted that both of the above reasons are more pronounced in companies with less than 250 employees, while the next most important reasons for not studying within the company are the limited time and high cost of programs, with 36.9% and 23. 4% respectively.

The highest percentage of security Continuing Professional Education (CET) it is observed in companies operating in the information, communication, financial sectors (35%), and the smallest – in trade, transport, accommodation and catering enterprises (14.2%).

Most companies consider the existing qualifications of employees to be sufficient or prefer to hire “ready-made” employees.

In 2020, TVET programs were mainly focused on acquiring technical and practical skills related to the workplace (72.6%), followed by teamwork skills (30.5%), professional computer skills (28.2%) , problem solving (25.5%) and communication with customers. (25.3%) skills.

In particular, the development of technical and practical skills is more focused on companies in the information, communication and financial sectors (83.5%), and to a lesser extent – on companies in the construction sector (61.9%), while the development of skills in The team is more focused on companies in the field of construction and trade, transport, accommodation and catering (35.2% and 35% respectively) and less information, communications and financial enterprises (11.6%). Accordingly, enterprises in the field of information, communications and finance, as well as in the field of real estate, entertainment and other services (44.1% and 39.9% respectively) are aimed at developing professional computer skills, and the smallest percentage falls on trade, transport , housing. and public catering (18.7%). Job-related technical and practical skills are important for all businesses, regardless of size. In addition, businesses with 250 or more employees are more focused on developing administrative, professional computer and customer service skills than small businesses. Conversely, businesses with between 10 and 249 employees focus on teamwork and problem-solving skills more than businesses with 250 or more employees.