It's an oft-cited truism that the cheapest, most effective and most reliable way to gain a brand spanking new employee, complete with a sparkling suite of professional skills, is not to hire someone new but to invest in training an existing employee, whose potential is perhaps being underused.
Meanwhile, from the point of view of the employee, receiving professional training adds considerably to the value they can gain in their job - enhancing their career prospects, adding to their skills, and helping them to perform better in their job, while opening the door to new tasks and roles.
Training is the ideal way to add specific business skills to one’s skill-set - those which might not have been acquired at university, or mastered in the normal run of things in a job - such as writing professional letters, conducting meetings, handling difficult customers or getting familiar with the ins-and-outs of Excel spreadsheets. This should be particularly appealing to the sizeable minority of employers who are sometimes heard to complain about the lack of specific business skills of junior professionals.