TVEP are pioneering a new ex-forces transition course to ease skills shortages
27-06-2007
This will present two key advantages;
· Offer armed forces leavers an opportunity to progress to an engineering career in industry utilising existing skills
· Provide local companies, with skills shortages the opportunity to fill engineering vacancies with ex-forces personnel
The Package
The course will use the funding available to individual leavers to subsidise appropriate skills refinement and obtain a pledge from participating companies to cover remaining costs. TVEP will provide some top-up funding where there are groups of people with similar training needs.
The course aims to act as a translation service helping recruits to illiterate their existing skills and communicate these to industry. Army leavers possess key engineering skills that employee's need and the course will unravel this expertise.
Why implement this course?
TVEP are well aware that one of the most impending factors on engineering companies is the immediate need to recruit numbers of good quality people.
The prospects for the industry are excellent and long term and the training and experience the ex-army leavers have should accelerate this transition.
However there are difficulties in translating current CVs into terminology understood by employers. Army leavers need support in presenting themselves and this is where the course will be of benefit giving the leavers the support and confidence needed to achieve in an engineering career.
