Business in the Community

Employer Strategy

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Connecting

Job Seekers Business

Business in the Community

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• Growing their Business

• Meeting the needs of their current workforce

• Negative experience with a programme

• Fear due to media or misinformation

• Feel their recruitment staff are meeting their needs

Company Obstacles

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• Work with members to design/deliver and evaluate programmes

• Provide engagement with our participants during training

• Opportunity to change an individual’s life while reaping the rewards of creating a loyal and productive workforce

• Joint review of employment practices

• Information Hub on the needs and profiles of unemployment in their area

• Continued Communication

BITC Solution

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• Look to growing and emerging sectors– Manufacturing

– Renewables

• Early intervention schools and youth training programmes

• Continue to evaluate programmes

Future Opportunities

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• 25 year old employability programme from USA• Boot camp style delivery method aimed at working on

soft skills • BITC is the only organization licensed to deliver in NI• North West currently delivering 64% into employment• Recently rolled out in the Belfast Area

STRIVE 2 Work

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• Graduate Acceleration Programme

• Launched in January 2010

• Response to increasing graduate unemployment in NI.

• Aim to provide meaningful graduate work experience and valuable qualification

GAP

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• North West Employers Forum/Citywide Employers Forum (Belfast)

• Meet and discuss recruitment needs and employment issues

• Support local unemployed men and women back into the workforce through

Employers’ Forum

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