helping you to shape your future
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Helping you to shape your Future. H elping C ustomers S ucceed through high quality all-age career management and personal development services. HCS Careers main activity areas. Career Management & Development HCS Financial Services Skills Support for the Unemployed (SSU) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Helping you to shape your Future
Helping Customers Succeed through high quality all-age career management
and personal development services
HCS Careers main activity areas
1. Career Management & Development
2. HCS Financial Services3. Skills Support for the
Unemployed (SSU)4. Skills Support for
Redundancy (SSR)5. DWP/ESF Families with Multiple
Problems (Essex/Cambridgeshire)
6. Vocational Routeways - Specialist provider
7. Apprenticeships & Work Place Learning
8. Learning Centre9. Careers Education, Information,
Advice & Guidance (CEIAG) StopGap – 2 Centres
10. Work Experience11. Resources for schools
• Independent all-age career guidance services– work with individuals/groups within private, public and voluntary sectors
• Delivery: 7,000+ National Careers Service (NCS) sessions per annum Past 10 years, 500+ contracts to business to 5000+ people 300+ schools
• Labour market information & future skills requirements at local and national levels
• Qualified Careers Guidance Professionals
• Putting the customer first
Career Management & Development
Developing career & management skills that can be applied throughout life
College
School
Apprentice
Work
University
‘Working’ life
‘Retired’ life
Learning Learning
Age: 5 – 100+
National Careers Service (NCS)
• NCS is available free to everyone aged 13 and over throughout England
• It provides:– information, careers and skills advice – help online including webchat– help with a careers advisers over the phone – for adults only, access to face to face careers advice in the
community.
• Professionally qualified careers advisers
What can the National Careers
Service (NCS) offer? Free, impartial & confidential Information and Advice session Understanding of the local job market Help to develop CV, improve interview & presentation skills Help to search & apply for jobs Provide a Skills Health Check Action plan to help achieve goals Help to find learning & training
find out about funding improve reading, writing and maths
Progress in a current job Refer to a suitable organisation for information
we are unable to provide (disability, childcare, etc.) Help to open a Lifelong Learning Account
What is a Lifelong Learning Account
and what are the benefits?• Free online service• personal, tailored to match circumstances & needs• provides range of tools– update & store personal information such as CV, results of a
skills health check and course searches– helps to organise learning & career– access qualification results from Personal Learning Record – track financial contributions made towards learning– results stored in a safe and secure, single access point
National Careers Service (NCS)
1. Face-to-Face appointment with a careers adviser call 0845 603 1059
2. Phone help, call 0800 100 900 7 days a week between 8am – 10pm
3. Online help: www.direct.gov.uk/nationalcareersservice or search online for National Careers Service
Skills Support for Redundancy
Skills Support for the Unemployed
Programme designed to offer employability skills and pathways to employment via a range of provision including:– Pre-employment support in areas of CV writing, completing
application forms, interview techniques, career action planning, job search skills
– Soft skills development e.g. communication skills, assertiveness, confidence building, motivation
– Sector specific training – Retail, Care, Hospitality, Warehousing / Logistics – where there are opportunities
– Enterprise and self-employment skills development– Accredited qualifications or units towards one
What is Skills Support for the Unemployed (SSU)?
Individuals who are:– Aged 19 or over– Not in employment of 8 hours or more per week– Lawfully resident in the East of England region
(Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire)
Priority groups: JSA/IB claimants, lone parents, BME communities, refugees, economic migrants, offenders/ex-offenders, older people, young unemployed, people with disabilities/long term health conditions.
Who is eligible for SSU?
• TCHC has developed a network of delivery partners across the East of England region, to meet the needs of individuals or groups of clients within their locality.
• Benefits to LearnersTraining & support tailored to the individual’s specific
needsMentoring & support for people with additional problems
e.g. disability, health, motivation Intensive support to find workOn going mentoring once in employment
How is the Support Delivered?
Moving on in Work and Life
Are you:•looking for a career change?•feeling stuck in a rut?•looking to return to work after a career break?•wanting a new beginning?
Moving on in Work and Life
• Caring for your Future
• You have more skills than you think• Using the Internet to create social relationships and
effective Job Searching• CVs and how to get that Job• Moving on from Redundancy• Planning to move into Retirement
You have more skills
than you think• If you are a parent, who has been out of work for a long time and you are thinking of getting back into the work or learning, this is the course for you.
• It will help you to identify the skills you have and how they can be transferred into work from other aspects of your life e.g. work, home, learning.
You have more skills
than you thinkThis workshop usually lasts 2 hours.
Content:Be aware of the skills you have and that everyday tasks involve a range of skills Identify the skills you are confident aboutUnderstand that these skills can be used in a variety of contextsRecognise the skills you have gained through the different roles you have taken onFind out how to present your skills to best effectIf looking for employment, identify how you can transfer your skills into a work environmentFollow up one to one support session: This could include advice on:
CVs, part–time employment or learning, etc.
You have more skills
than you think“It gave me an opportunity to get some of my confidence back (having children made me lose confidence). You believe again you will have your life back on track and can go back to work.”
Hyde Children’s Centre
Moving on in Work and Life
• Caring for your Future• You have more skills than you think• Using the Internet to create social relationships and effective Job Searching• CVs and how to get that Job• Moving on from Redundancy• Planning to move into Retirement
CMD Services, HCS Careers Ltd, Exeter House, 1 Amor Way, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 1UG
07534 924056 01462 704936 0800 1582455
[email protected] / www.hcs.co.uk
Shaun Reason Tel: 01462 705000 E: [email protected] Barker Tel: 01462 704936 E: [email protected]
Find out about us @www.hcs.co.uk