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Skills for Life

Around the world Adecco is a leading supporter of bringing senior workers back into the workplace, offering benefit packages tailored to their needs and assignments that fit their lifestyle aspirations.

At a time when developing economies, particularly in Europe, are unable to meet their labour demands in many high-growth sectors, senior workers represent an important resource for relieving skills shortages and filling gaps in the labour market.

For Adecco, training and employing senior workers is both a social commitment and an opportunity, helping us maximise the value of our workforce and improve economic productivity across the broader population.

Senior candidates often have core skills that need updating to fit with today’s high-growth industries. That’s why Adecco provides specialised training so senior workers can reintegrate into today’s dynamic workplace environments.

The IQUADRIGA project, a joint venture between Adecco and Germany’s federal employment agency, is just one way Adecco is recognising that the most productive way forward is the authentic inclusion of workers of all ages at every stage of life. The programme focuses on new approaches to lowering unemployment among society’s most challenging age groups, including senior workers above 50 years of age.

Not only do such programmes help fill the skills shortage gap in key industries such as engineering and technology, they also help companies understand the values senior workers bring to the workplace, including rich life experiences, positive attitudes and strong work ethics.

In the German city of Hamburg, for example, Adecco is helping over-50 workers like Marita Kolenda, 52, retrain for a job in the aircraft industry.

“After a period of unemployment I began working for Adecco,” explains Ms Kolenda, a technical designer. “From the very start I admired Adecco’s efficient and professional approach to helping me reintegrate into the workforce,” she says.

Adecco’s personnel placement consultants assessed Ms Kolenda’s skills and offered her specialised training to become a qualified employee in aircraft construction.

“While I was training Adecco arranged a position for me as a technical design advisor for a leading multinational aircraft manufacturer,” explains Ms Kolenda. “My current position is broad in scope and I am responsible for a wide range of duties each day. This sense of responsibility, knowing I play a vital role in the design process of new aircraft, is just one of the many reasons I enjoy coming into work. I can’t thank Adecco enough for this life-changing opportunity.”

By fostering the acceptance of senior workers and developing routes to lifelong learning, Adecco is inspiring senior members of the workforce while helping meet the needs of the global labour markets.