Definition

Anyone who fulfils an activity linked to the (theoretical or practical) training function, either in an institution for education or training, or at the workplace.

Comment

• Two categories of trainers can be distinguished:
  
  
• professional trainer: training specialist whose job may coincide with that of the teacher in a vocational training establishment;
• part-time or occasional trainer: professional in various fields who takes on, in his/her normal duties, part-time training activity, either in-company (as mentors and tutors of recruits and apprentices or as training providers) or externally (by occasionally offering their services at a training establishment);
• a trainer may carry out various tasks:
  
  
• design training activities;
• organise and implement these activities;
• provide the actual training (transfer knowledge, know-how and skills);
• help apprentices develop their skills by providing advice, instructions and comments throughout the apprenticeship.