The situation of trainers is characterized by a dichotomy with regard to the target group of trainers: trainers that are employed in measures to increase the employability of unemployed individuals have scarce vocational background. The actual career as trainer is most often regarded by the trainers as a transition position for another job. In contrast to this trainers in initial as well as in continuing vocational education within companies trainers most often do have a professional vocational identification. Very often they belong to the professional field themselves, therefore their vocational identity is composed by the fact that they are trainers as well as professionals in the vocational field. This dichotomy has enormous consequences for the professional development of trainers.