NHC now has a dedicated team supporting people back into work called ‘Training for Employment’.
The team includes professional Job Coaches and a Job Broker who will:
- Help you assess any training needs.
- Show you how to produce or update your CV to a professional standard.
- Guide you in completing application forms if needed.
- Give you tips and advice on interview techniques, job searching and personal presentation.
- Advise you on free courses available to update skills or to help change career.*
*The free training offer applies if you are unemployed, in receipt of Job Seekers Allowance or, have recently been made redundant or in consultation for redundancy.
You must be actively seeking employment to qualify for free training.
Drop into one of our centres to find out more: the service is FREE and it could be the start of a brighter future.
Job search websites
The internet is a great way to find out about the jobs available with lots of sites featuring the latest vacancies. These are some which we have found to be useful in North Hertfordshire:
www.indeed.co.uk : type in your postcode and the job search engine do all the work.
www.easyjobs.com : this job search site is easy to use even for web first-timers.
www.jobs24.co.uk : you can access local vacancies using this site from The Comet newspaper group – why wait for Thursday’s paper?
Local vacancies
The Training for Employment team works closely with Job Centre Plus, matching the training offered against the skills that industries who are currently recruiting really need. This means that if you want to change direction you could do the basic training or even a qualification to put you ahead of the competition.
Here’s what one of the Job Coaches has to say about the retail market:
Retail, the sleeping giant
By Kevin Mills, Training for Employment, North Hertfordshire College
Regardless of the state of the economy we all need, food, drink, clothes and other commodities. Many shops are still thriving and have job vacancies: the large supermarkets, the major clothes retailers, hairdressers, fitness centres, cafes, restaurants and fast food outlets, mobile phone shops, bookmakers and chemists.
And it’s not just sales assistants that are needed. Other services are vital to retailing too: cleaners, stockroom and warehouse staff, night shift workers, customer services and drivers.
The following stores have an annual staff turnover due to retirement, maternity leave, dismissals etc of approximately 40%: Boots the Chemist; ASDA; Matalan; Primark; Sainsbury’s; Tesco; Waitrose; Morrisons; Marks and Spencer; Argos. Vacancies at all of these can be applied for at any time, and if positions are not immediately available, they will keep suitable applicants paperwork on file for up to three months.
How to contact Training for Employment
If you would like to know more about the training offered or how the team can help you make the next step back to employment, call
01462 443072 or email:
t4e@nhc.ac.uk If you have a success story about how the Training for Employment team has supported you, or any advice for fellow jobseekers, please email the team at the address above.