Q&A - Explain “on-the-job” training

With on the job training, employees receive training whilst remaining in the workplace.

The main methods of one-the-job training include:

• Demonstration / instruction - showing the trainee how to do the job
• Coaching - a more intensive method of training that involves a close working relationship between an experienced employee and the trainee
• Job rotation - where the trainee is given several jobs in succession, to gain experience of a wide range of activities (e.g. a graduate management trainee might spend periods in several different departments)
• Projects - employees join a project team - which gives them exposure to other parts of the business and allow them to take part in new activities. Most successful project teams are “multi-disciplinary”

The advantages and disadvantages of this form of training can be summarised as follows: