Among Sri Lanka’s economic development strategies, the transfer of skilled workers to foreign jobs has a prominent place. Also, the tendency of skilled workers from many countries in the Asian region to go for foreign jobs has increased. Due to this situation, competition has been created for the skills and qualities of skilled workers in the foreign employment market, such as professional competence, knowledge, attitude and personal discipline and behavior. There is no doubt that the skilled workers of the countries who have been trained at the optimum level for the above skills and qualities will have a high value in the foreign job market.
Therefore, the SMI Foreign Employment Agency has identified the need for a specific program to develop the skills and qualities of Sri Lankan skilled workers who are going to work abroad.
Accordingly, it is essential to provide training and understanding regarding the following matters to the skilled workers who are going for foreign jobs and create a clear interpretation of them to suit their jobs.
1. Training on the social, economic, cultural background and social values and manners of the country for foreign employment.
2. Training on general rules and etiquette of the respective state.
3. Basic training on the language used in the respective state to facilitate daily tasks and workplace tasks
The 05-day residential professional capacity development training course has been planned in order to achieve the above mentioned training objectives for the skilled workers who are going to work abroad in order to win the competitive foreign job market.
This training course will be implemented in a training center with a suitable training environment for training by an expert training board with expertise in the following subject contents.
Training Content –
• Identifying oneself
• Change and change management
• Leadership, personality development and team spirit development
• Measures to be taken for health and safety
• Planning and creativity
• Recognizing self-confidence and situational changes
• Enduring and overcoming challenges
• Resource and time management
• Making the right decisions and achieving goals
• Exercises in competition and winning
• Adaptation to corporate work environment and professional ethics
• Appreciate multiculturalism and respect others
• Personal development exercises and mental wellness
• Work and family balance
• Financial income and expenditure management
• South Korean language culture and behavior and rules/rules
• Personal discipline
So far, three professional capacity development training courses have been successfully completed in the above subject content. I am happy to mention here that the behavioral change achieved through the results of the training has been highly appreciated by the trainees as well as the foreign employment agency.