Advantages
- A specialist instructor enables delivery of high quality training.
- Wider range of facilities and equipment are available.
- The trainee can learn the job in planned stages.
- It is free from the pressures and distractions of company life.
- It is easier to calculate the cost of off-job training because it is more self-contained
- Cross-fertilisation of ideas between different companies.
Disadvantages
- Can result in transfer of learning difficulties when a trainee changes from training equipment to production equipment.
- No training can be entirely off-job as some aspects of the task can only be learned by doing them in the normal production setting, with its own customs and network of personal relationships.
- Can be more expensive carrying out the training