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"skill-pills" to boost performance?
05-Jun-2007

"Skill-pills" to boost performance? Students entering their first graduate jobs could soon be bombarded with "skill-pills" to boost their learning and performance.

Skill-Pill Mobile Learning (SPML) is a new form of on-the-job training which uses mobile technology such as phones, Blackberries and video iPods to deliver audio-visual briefing.

Businesses buying skill-pills will receive tailored products that feature up to two minutes of media content.

Graduates and others receiving these pills will receive the latest company information as well as motivational "prompts" to achieve improved performance.

Susan Croft, spokesperson for SPML, said: "Time challenged executives are suffering from attention deficit as they are increasingly bombarded with indiscriminate information.

"To address this overload, we aim to help organisations target the right employees with the right information at the right time."

SPML is part of a growing trend towards more fully exploiting mobile and internet technology.

This could prove good news for students and new graduates - the generation currently at university is far more technologically savvy than its predecessors.

Many students have already familiarised themselves with the sort of technology businesses are encouraging in a social context.

Recent research suggests that a large proportion of students now own laptop computers and iPods - and virtually all own a recent model of mobile phone.

 
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