reskilling

Verb

reskill (third-person singular simple present reskills, present participle reskilling, simple past and past participle reskilled)

1. (ambitransitive) To retrain workers in the skills needed by modern business, especially after redundancy.
   • In the existing work force also, not only among the new entrants, we are caught up in a treadmill of retraining, reskilling, retooling the current work force for job descriptions that are as narrow and as shortsighted as the ones they have just come from.1989 April 16, Joseph Michalak, Stephen S. Pickering, Louis Uchitelle, quoting Harris L. Sussman, “Experts Divided On Jobs in the 90's”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
2. (ambitransitive) To learn additional skills.
   • To maintain relevance and sustain marketable skills, IT professionals must reskill and reskill and reskill.2015, Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis, Kylie Rochford, Scott N. Taylor, editors, The Impact of Shared Vision on Leadership, Engagement, Organizational Citizenship and Coaching, page 145