Your Way to Work... • Are you aged 19+ and unemployed? • Do you have few or no qualifications? • Do you have little or no work experience? • Do you need support to help you decide on your next step? • Do you have a willingness to learn? If you have answered 'yes' to these questions, then the ProspectsPlus programme could be for you! ProspectsPlus aims to give unemployed people, a real chance of getting into permanent employment. It achieves this through a series of FREE flexible training sessions that run over 26 weeks. The programme helps develop your work-based skills, gain qualifications, and build your confidence. It also includes a work experience placement in a local company. Why should I take part in ProspectsPlus? It's not just another training programme. ProspectsPlus is about improving your skills, qualifications and experiences in relation to what employers are actually looking for. The programme content includes: • Interpersonal Skills • Qualifications (including: Key Skills, City & Guilds Preparation for Employment, European Computer Driving License, Adult Literacy and Numeracy). • Work Trials • Interview Techniques • Career guidance, Job Search and CV Writing • Team Building • Basic Computing • Time Management • Work ethics • Built-in opportunities to progress into educational and employment opportunities. In doing the programme, it also helps you by: • Getting rid of your reading or writing gremlins • Improving your English if you speak it as second language • Equipping you with qualifications and skills to improve your CV • Gaining practical experience within a real work environment. • Offering flexibility that meets your specific training needs and works around your own time commitments … what's more is that it will not affect your existing benefit entitlements and it won't cost you a penny! Interested? Contact Maria Williams at the Upturn Team on 0161 484 3244 or visit www.upturn.org.uk |