Career in Electrics not causing a spark
Qualified domestic electricians are in short supply. There has never been a better time to retrain.
Career in Electrics not causing a spark
New Careers Skills, the leading nationwide training provider for mature career changers, have helped combat the UK skills shortage of plumbers. Now the pioneering training providers are helping to fill the gap appearing within the electricians trade.
New Career Skills are launching a comprehensive course for mature career changers in electrics, certified by various industry bodies including City & Guilds.
By 2008 Great Britain will be short of 36,700 electricians unless 7,340 electricians join the profession every year.* With the current courses on offer and the lack of interest in the trade this doesn’t look too likely, meaning the NCS course is a vital boost to training in electrics.
New Career Skills opened the UK’s largest private skills training centre of its kind, in November last year. The live environment of the centre means that as trainees follow the electricians course through theory and practical sessions, they do it in the best environment. Training bays filled with fully functional wired in electrics, provide the most realistic training frames possible.
The Southampton based training centre can train up to 75 individuals at one time, and still offers a plumbing course.
Trevor Dormedy, MD of New Career Skills said:
“We are proud to have helped and be helping train plumbers as the UK shortage worsened. Electricians are now becoming fewer and fewer, our course is already filling up and we hope to make a real difference.”
*(ConstructionSkills Regional Foresight Report 2004)
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