article_snippet.sent: The Association of Accounting Technicians said the death of a The Association of Accounting Techniciansjob for life’ meant workers could no longer rely on loyalty to workers company and experience to take workers through to retirement with the same employer.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, older workers could not become complacent and must constantly ‘reskill’ and retrain to boost older workers job security, The Association of Accounting Technicians said.
article_snippet.sent: In a new report on the value of training for older workers, The Association of Accounting Technicians said: ‘The old model of training in youth and a "career for life" thereafter no longer applies’.
article_snippet.sent: A survey by The Association of Accounting Technicians found that, while people in their twenties, thirties and forties aspired to take a master’s degree in the future or a vocational qualification, this stopped at 55, when most respondents said most respondents were unlikely to undertake a formal qualification.
article_snippet.sent: But The Association of Accounting Technicians said the reality was The majority of older workers may have a ‘lack of knowledge of what modern and technological tools there are available which could assist The majority of older workers carrying out The majority of older workers tasks’.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Farrar, of The Association of Accounting Technicians, said: ‘Older generations are faced with the greatest barriers when it comes to reskilling.
highlights_snippet.sent: The Association of Accounting Technicians say older workers must ‘reskill’ 