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FREE Employability programme: TECHWELL 2024
TECHWELL 2024 is now finished. Please refer to TECHWELL 2025 for any new admissions.
Helping you (re-)enter the workforce with our FREE Employability programme: Tech Together with Health & Wellbeing
The programme will deliver a combination of training and workshops in career building, digital skills fundamentals, and health and wellbeing. The focus will be supporting those who are long term sick or looking after family/home to help them to re-enter the employment market and to progress into volunteering opportunities, further training, or employment. This include developing personal learning and action plans, accessing support services to overcome barriers.
Programme Contents
The programme will consist of:
- Individual Learning Plan that ascertain the career goals, learning needs, obstacles and builds a learning path for the participants. This includes an initial / Baseline Assessment that evaluates the skills and knowledge before the training starts and identify participants’ learning needs for effective placement in appropriate learning activities. This designs a personalised learning and integrate learning needs into the existing training plan.
- Career Support Workshop, focused on providing specific skills for identified career, admin skills, sales, customer service skills, reporting, accounts payable, etc.
- Job preparation including CV writing workshop, Interview Techniques Workshop, LinkedIn profile building and networking
- Digital skills: basics of using IT to increase productivity, stay safe, troubleshoot issues, using the web, become data literate and explore different areas of IT and how they can help with work, socially or with life
- Build portfolio with all the elements that you learned and create, be confident in your use of IT, and gain transferable skills to strengthen your job prospects.
Who, When and Where is the course taking place?
Who (Eligibility): You must be unemployed. This course is tailored for job seekers.
Who (Trainer): The IT course is delivered by 3E Web Media, experts in digital and data literacy and inclusion. Other courses will depend on individual needs garnered from the individual learning plans.
When: from May 2024 to December 2024, days and times depending on individual needs garnered from the individual learning plans. The programme set up takes place in May. The enrolment happens in June. The individual learning plans are done in July and August. The programme starts as soon as the individuals are ready and the plans completed.
Where: Our consortium organisations are all involved as are any of our partners. The place of delivery will depend on what is convenient for individual as worked out during the building of their individual learning plans. We are able to secure venues where is most convenient to our participants or help with their transportation to the nearest venue.
Places are limited so sign up today to ensure you benefit from this FREE opportunity. Places will be allotted on a first-come first-serve basis subject to eligibility.
Expression of Interest
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Making Education a Priority
via Employability
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) counted 24800 claimants in March 2024, a rise from 6.1% to 6.5% of 16 to 64 year-old.
With the support of 7 main partners (in reverse alphabetic order: WEA, Nurturing Foundations, Job Centres, Ingeus, Highway Hope, Government, GIFT), we work to help reduce the number of unemployed by providing our TECHWELL programme.
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TECHWELL 2024 Employability Process
A systematic process allowed us and our dedicated partners, volunteers and staff to help our participants to improve confidence, health, skills and find or create tailored opportunities.
1. Recruit
2.Personalise
3. Train
4. Signpost
5. Place
Audience: Long-term unemployed in Greater Manchester
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MEaP’s recruitment campaign and Programme Flyer
including presentations and exhibits to MEaP’s consortium (Highway Hope, Nurturing Foundations, GIFT, MaCTRI, Twilight), Ingeus and Job centres, and Longsight Library Centre, and social ads on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Participants’ Feedback: Upskilled and more confident
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“Thank you for… providing a great course to help us enjoy the IT experience to know it’s okay to faulter but to keep going.” – Sharon W (TECHWELL 2024)
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“The learning sessions… gave a deep insight into the possibilities available to me as a professional. . Very confident, positive and hopeful now..” – Mohammed K. K. (TECHWELL 2024)
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“i found the techwell course very helpful. it opened my eyes to a field i had grown up with but didn’t necessarily understand.” – Jack D. (TECHWELL)
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“… just this one session improved my confidence and IT skills, and suggestions about digital marketing, especially considering the industry trends around AI.” – Alex B. (TECHWELL)
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“I am very pleased with all that I achieved on this course. I am very grateful for all the insights gained and the directions I was taken in, which I wouldn’t have achieved without participating in this course.” – Maureen N., TECHWELL 2024
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“I appreciate the course for your knowledge and insight on technology and on how AI works on our daily basis environment.” – Edlayne R, TECHWELL 2024
Funding Partners
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