TrainerBase, the Association for Learning Practitioners, is being increasingly used by purchasers to find specialists trainers with sector and technical skills.

Peter Mayes, founder and chief executive is finding that reports there are a growing number of postings with specialist requirements and different sector skills expertise. "Only yesterday, three opportunities have been posted for quite specialist ICT requirement including Oracle, SharePoint and Communicator", he said. "These three have indicated sector experience in media and publishing," he added.

Recently, a number of opportunities were posted for expertise within the hospitality sector for a training company that runs a wide range of specialist programmes on event management.

"This is quite an encouraging addition to the normal range of tenders for help on management development, finance and accounting and sales courses that get posted on a regular basis," commented Peter Mayes.

The TrainerBase web site, which gets upwards of 50,000 visitors a month, is gaining in popularity as a freely searchable database of over 3,000 training providers.