Details on the electrician and blacksmith positions below.
ELC apprenticeships⤴
from Mick Burns
Tag Archives: Employment and Training
Modern Apprentice Learning & Development Administrator Saughton House, Edinburgh.⤴
from Mick Burns
Closing date 27 March 2015.
Scottish Government MA⤴
from Mick Burns
The role of Modern Apprentice posts in this range (A3) is to offer business administrative support and secretarial support under the supervision of and in support of a more senior officer. Duties usually call for the exercise of discretion and initiative whilst carrying out routine tasks and will often involve the use of IT based skills.
Public Appointment Assistant
Provide administrative support in all aspects of appointment rounds supporting the team and Selection Panels.
Crummock Modern Apprenticeship vacancies⤴
from Mick Burns
2 x Quantity Surveyor MAs and 1x Site Engineer. They will put MAs through HNC or Degree courses depending on entry qualifications.
Edinburgh Zoo ZEST-certificate-of-work-readiness⤴
from Mick Burns
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is proud to announce it will be offering a new 10 week work experience programme that includes the SQA qualification ‘Certificate of Work Readiness’ developed by Skills Development Scotland. This course is for young people aged 17 – 20 that are not in education, employment, or training.
6 placements will be offered at Edinburgh Zoo (3 Animal Dept., 1 Education, 1 Visitor Services & 1 Works) and 2 at the Highland Wildlife Park (1 Animal Dept. and 1 with either Works or Visitor Services).
The programme will commence on the 5 May 2014 and run 4 days a week, Monday – Thursday from 9:00am – 3:30pm. Lunches will be provided on site and Lothian Bus passes can be issued for the placements at Edinburgh Zoo.
– See more here or http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/zest-certificate-of-work-readiness/#sthash.vdZprzQP.dpuf
Mr Fells’ class March 2015⤴
from Mick Burns
Welcome to the careers session and we will use this post to give you information and resources to help you complete the tasks each week.
First of all.
You must be registered or register for a MWOW account here and remember you will need an email address to do this. Please make a note of your user name and password as you will use this site over the sessions. You can get help on setting up a new MWOW account here
Now you are going to complete My Strengths and this short video explains why this will be useful in your career planning. You can take the test by clicking on the window to the left of this video.
Next up is My DNA which will give you more information about you and your personality here
The Careers A-Z here will help you find information about a whole range of careers.
If you have time register here and try the skills or personal qualities tests.
Try using Wordle to give your results a creative look! You can save your wordle as a png at the bottom right hand side of the wordle screen
Routes-to-employment-Career-Journey-Template
1. Your preferred career journey
2. Your back-up career plan
3. Why English will help you at every stage
4. What is important at each stage, qualifications? training? money? promotion etc.
Remember to save your work in your careers folder on the school server.
Email this to me at mick.burns@sds.co.uk
Take your time and complete the survey below, with capital letters (if appropriate) and no small ‘i’ if talking about yourself!
DGS S5 March 2015⤴
from Mick Burns
Dunbar Grammar S5 responses to the question ‘What advice would you give yourself for a successful future from the future?’
SSE Power vacancies⤴
from Mick Burns
SSE Power is now recruiting throughout Scotland for various craft apprenticeships to start in August 2015. Candidates must have a minimum of 4 National 4 or 5 to include English, maths and a science or craft subject or 4 Standard Grades at levels 1-3 to include English, maths and a science or craft subject.
Closing date for applications is 15th March 2015.
Details of roles, requirements and application procedure here or visit http://sse.com/careers/apprentices/
Electrical Mechanical Apprenticeship Opportunity⤴
from Mick Burns
You can find all sorts of rewarding career opportunities with East Coast. We have 2 positions for Electrical/Mechanical apprenticeships with plenty of scope for career advancement, we’d love to hear from your students. As a member of our team, they will be pushed and challenged, but will also be supported and guided to deliver a service to be proud of. They will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, including our rewards and recognition scheme, pension and travel facilities. Not to mention our extensive training programmes to help them achieve their full potential.
We would be very grateful if you could place attached apprenticeship advert on your school website/notice boards. This is an excellent opportunity for your students.
Because there is always a huge interest , it is important that all candidates meet the minimum criteria before applying for these apprenticeships to avoid disappointment at the first hurdle. Application should be made on the East Coast website ‘About Us’ section.
If you have any questions, please contact me on the details below.
Linda Reid
Depot Support HR Interface
East Coast Main Line Company
Craigentinny Depot
167 Mountcastle Crescent
Edinburgh
EH8 7TE
Modern Apprenticeship vacancy – East Lothian⤴
from Mick Burns
Vacancy information
Fixed term contract for 18 months
35 hours per week
Monday-Friday
£2.73 per hour
(rising to £4.10 per hour in Year 2, after successful completion of Year 1)
To start asap
This position is only open to young people aged between 16 and 19 years of age who reside in East Lothian
East Lothian Council is using The Youth Employment Scotland Fund to create Modern Apprentice opportunities to support young people into employment who are aged between 16 and 19 years and reside in East Lothian.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Modern Apprentice position at East Lothian Works, East Lothian’s flagship employability service.
The Modern Apprenticeship will be fully work based at 9-11 Lodge Street, Haddington, with ongoing support from Midlothian Training Services and Rewards Training on site to achieve the SVQ Level 3 in Business & Administration. The duration of the apprenticeship will be for a fixed term 18 month period.
You will provide reception and administrative support to staff within East Lothian Works. With good interpersonal skills, you will flexible, a team player, confident and be able to converse with members of the public. Daily duties will include answering the telephone, making room bookings, photocopying, word processing and a variety of office tasks.
Training in the use of specialist software packages (if applicable) will be provided, however a basic knowledge and ability to use Microsoft office packages is desirable.
You must provide evidence of competency in literacy and numeracy skills such as a minimum of three standard grade level 3 passes or above to include English and Mathematics.
Apply here