ABSTRACT
On-the-job learning is usually taken to mean learning the job-specific skills and knowledge by doing the job. The learning happens in real time and may be indistinguishable from the performance of the work to which it is intended to contribute. This makes on-the-job learning different from any other work based learning approach. It is not so much a difference in kind as one of degree; the ‘degree’ being the measure of closeness of the learning activity to the work itself. This means that even if you do not consciously choose any work based learning methods to improve your effectiveness but, in continuing to do your job, demonstrate evidence of such improvement, it would be difficult not to attribute the improvement to on-the-job learning of some kind.
