The Current Context of Professional Training at the Level of Higher Education Institutions in Romania

The training of human resources is a set of processes whereby, as a result of undertaking specialised programmes, employees develop their skills, knowledge, practices, behaviours and working techniques in which they already have a basic qualification, in order to achieve a higher level of their objectives and tasks. The present paper aims to achieve a picture of the access and participation of employees - teachers of the University of Petroşani in continuous vocational training programs comprising information on their structuring according to the forms of professional training, the type of programmes -initiation, qualification, retraining, basic training, advanced training, the main competences targeted by participants and not only. Such a snapshot of the current competences within the institution is thus obtained. In parallel, the mission and overall objectives of the institution provide an image of its profile and the role of staff within it, on the capacities and competences needed at present time but also in future. The information thus gathered allows to identify the distance between the current situation and the desired situation, revealing both the strengths and the weaknesses in the professional training of the teaching body of the University of Petroşani, while facilitating and putting forward appropriate training solutions to ensure that the existing personnel can acquire the skills needed to achieve the present and future objectives of the institution.