Making a Positive Start to Your Career

(Employability Skills Training)

Phone: 0208 464 0770

Fax: 0208 460 3110

E-mail: training@copeforequality.co.uk

Contact us:

Students from Stourbridge College that attended Making a Positive Start to Your Career   

COPE

Creating Opportunity Promoting Equality

Making a Difference

Why this workshop?

 

Having the right qualifications and an impressive CV may get you an interview for a job, but in order to get through the interview, and subsequently retain and progress in your career you will need to develop and demonstrate a range of competencies and personal attributes.  These are sometimes described as employability skills. 

 

Making a Positive Start to Your Career bridges this knowledge gap by giving those planning to enter the workforce the relevant information and practical tools to gain and retain employment, progress in their career, and fulfil their potential.

 

What makes our approach unique?

 

We have a proven track record in developing and delivering successful “positive action” training to support people from underachieving and disadvantaged groups, and to give them the skills to overcome personal barriers to success and progress in their career.

 

We use this wealth of experience to embed equality and diversity in all our training activities to ensure it is relevant and effectively meets the development needs of people with different abilities and from all races, cultures and backgrounds.  

 

Outcomes

 

Those who attend this programme will:

 

○ have a clear understanding of organisational culture, including the expectations of employers/managers

 

○ know how to overcome potential barriers to progression in the workplace

 

○ learn how to capitalise on opportunities to achieve their full potential

 

○ identify and learn how to develop and demonstrate the key skills and competencies which employers are seeking

 

○ learn how to manage their career and personal development effectively

 

○ know how to improve their communication skills (including their interviewing skills) and increase their chances of success.

 

Who will benefit

 

Students and all those seeking employment now and in the future.

 

Speaker/Presenter

 

The programme has been developed and is delivered by an inspirational public speaker who after leaving school worked himself up from an Administrative Assistant to Senior Manager in the public sector, and then went on to become the Managing Director of his own successful company. 

 

Course Dates/Venue

 

This is currently being run as an in-house course, which means we deliver the programme on demand within educational institutions and other organisations. 

 

 

“I now know how to be prepared for an interview, and what barriers I may face in employment and how to tackle them.”

Siddiqa Zhara, Student

 

“It has helped me focus on the skills I will need top help me find a job.”

Saikah Parveen, Student

 

“The teacher was great and demonstrated everything.”

Shama Firdous, Student

 

“Thank you for the excellent delivery of “Making a Positive Start” - the students thoroughly enjoyed the training and gained plenty of additional skills in their quest for employment.”

Caroline Northway, Stourbridge College, Services to Schools Coordinator

 

Booking/Information

 

For more information, to book the workshop or for a course brochure email us at training@copeforequality.co.uk or call 0208 464 0770