Professionals can learn about their industry and stay up-to-date on important industry issues and trends that affect clients in many ways. While your firm should offer formal industry training (and of course, technical service line training), learning isn’t restricted to the classroom. In addition to formal learning, learning also includes on-the-job experience and information, tips and suggestions you receive from the connections you make, all of which expand industry knowledge.
From a learning and development viewpoint, the journey to becoming a firm with chosen, limited industry and technical specialties requires you to provide young professionals with a clear vision of their career pathways. They need to see the light at the end of the tunnel and understand the value they bring to the firm, where they currently stand in their own career development process and what the future could hold.
