More from the Jobs Fair

Following on from our attendance at the Swindon Jobs Fair at the County Ground earlier this month, our very own David Gearon speaks about the event.

For more videos, testimonials, and images, please visit https://www.thejobfairs.co.uk/network/jobfair/swindon-15-11-2023/

We hope that if you came and spoke to us, that we were able to help guide you in the right direction.  We’d love to hear from you if you met us there and have some news about your job search since the event.

If you were invited to our next Forklift Friday taster session, it’s running this Friday 1st December and it’s the last one of the year, so please do let us know if you want to come along.

For more information about this, please visit www.keyperformancetraining.co.uk/forklift-friday/

We will be attending the next one on Friday 19th April 2024 at the same venue, so if you’re looking for a chance to change your career, then please come over and have a conversation with us.

Jobs Fair Update

We were delighted to attend the Swindon Jobs Fair, at Swindon Town Football Club’s County Ground yesterday. A huge thanks to the organisers #thejobfairs who ran another slick event.

We had a fantastic day and met lots of really lovely people all looking for that opportunity to find the right job.

We showcased our training products and were able to talk to people about how our forklift training could help people create a pathway to employment.

We were also delighted to be able to support Seetec Pluss’s new Work & Health Programme – Pioneer.  This incredible new scheme enables people who are economically inactive to attend a drop-in session, running on Thursdays, with no appointment or referral from a job coach.  If you are eligible, you may qualify for funding for your training.

We were also able to invite people to our next Forklift Friday taster session, running on Friday 1st December.  This gives people a chance to try forklift driving, met the trainers and chat to us about your experience and needs, in a relaxed setting.

For more information about this, please visit https://keyperformancetraining.co.uk/forklift-friday/

We’re looking forward to attending the upcoming job fairs in 2024, and helping more people into work.

Employability Focus Month

It’s National Employability Day on Friday 30th June, and so we’ve dedicated the month of June to working hard with some of our partners to really focus on our role in improving people’s employment opportunities.

We started the month by running our first taster session exclusively for people being helped by an amazing organisation called Disability Experts.  They provide targeted support for people with disabilities, and they have been an invaluable resource for us in the past few months.  With their help, we’ve been able to make some small adjustments to our courses, and in partnership, we should be able to help these participants into employment.

We’ve had a great meeting with Thrive Recruitment this month, in which we discussed some of the job opportunities around Swindon at the moment, and what a difference being trained in multiple disciplines has on people’s employability.

We attended the Swindon Job Fair on Friday 23rd June at the County Ground.  This event enabled us to meet with lots of wonderful people, all of whom were looking for work.  We talked to people about enhancing their employability by widening their skills, with workplace or forklift training.  We also handed out a fair few lollies and sweets to the children, so apologies to the parents!

We wish everyone we met the very best of luck with their job searches.  If you want more information about any of the courses we offer, please see our website – https://keyperformancetraining.co.uk/#

We were also delighted to attend Seetec Pluss’s Employability Panel event on Monday 26th June.  This was a group of partners, employers, Swindon Borough Council and some of the participants Seetec Pluss have helped. Our local MP Justin Tomlinson attended and joined the discussion as we looked at some of the great things being provided by Seetec Pluss already and what might be needed in the future.   Seetec Pluss offer wide and varied practical, hands-on advice to people looking to get back into employment.  Their personal approach is so supportive and respectful, and that extends to the relationship with external partners like us.  They really make a difference to people’s lives, and we’re honoured to work with them.

Finally, on the day itself, we’re attending an event called “The Neurodiversity Challenge”, which is being run by Disability Experts.  We’re looking forward to an enjoyable, educational and entertaining session in which we can improve our knowledge of this topic.

Thank you to everyone we’ve spoken to during these events.  We’ve certainly learnt a lot and we hope that we can put into practice some of the things we’ve picked up along the way.