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Helping you to shape
your Future
Helping Customers Succeed
through high quality all-age career management
and personal development services
HCS Careers main activity areas
1. Career Management &
Development
2. HCS Financial Services
3. Skills Support for the
Unemployed (SSU)
4. Skills Support for
Redundancy (SSR)
5. DWP/ESF Families with Multiple
Problems (Essex/Cambridgeshire)
6. Vocational Routeways Specialist provider
7. Apprenticeships & Work Place
Learning
8. Learning Centre
9. Careers Education, Information,
Advice & Guidance (CEIAG)
StopGap – 2 Centres
10. Work Experience
11. Resources for schools
Career Management & Development
• Independent all-age career guidance services
– work with individuals/groups within private, public and voluntary sectors
• Delivery:
 7,000+ National Careers Service (NCS) sessions per annum
 Past 10 years, 500+ contracts to business to 5000+ people
 300+ schools
• Labour market information & future skills requirements at local
and national levels
• Qualified Careers Guidance Professionals
• Putting the customer first
Developing career & management skills that
can be applied throughout life
College
Apprentice
School
Work
University
‘Working’
life
‘Retired’
life
Learning
Learning
Age: 5 – 100+
National Careers Service (NCS)
• NCS is available free to everyone aged 13 and
over throughout England
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information, careers and skills advice
help online including webchat
help with a careers advisers over the phone
for adults only, access to face to face careers advice in the
community.
• Professionally qualified careers advisers
What can the National Careers
Service (NCS) offer?
 Free, impartial & confidential Information and Advice session
 Understanding of the local job market
 Help to develop CV, improve interview & presentation skills
 Help to search & apply for jobs
 Provide a Skills Health Check
 Action plan to help achieve goals
 Help to find learning & training
 find out about funding
 improve reading, writing and maths
 Progress in a current job
 Refer to a suitable organisation for information
we are unable to provide (disability, childcare, etc.)
 Help to open a Lifelong Learning Account
What is a Lifelong Learning Account
and what are the benefits?
• Free online service
• personal, tailored to match circumstances & needs
• provides range of tools
– update & store personal information such as CV, results of a
skills health check and course searches
– helps to organise learning & career
– access qualification results from Personal Learning Record
– track financial contributions made towards learning
– results stored in a safe and secure, single access point
National Careers Service (NCS)
1. Face-to-Face appointment with a careers adviser call 0845 603 1059
2. Phone help, call 0800 100 900 7 days a week between 8am – 10pm
3. Online help: www.direct.gov.uk/nationalcareersservice or search
online for National Careers Service
Skills Support for Redundancy
Skills Support for the Unemployed
What is Skills Support for
the Unemployed (SSU)?
Programme designed to offer employability skills and
pathways to employment via a range of provision including:
– Pre-employment support in areas of CV writing, completing
application forms, interview techniques, career action planning,
job search skills
– Soft skills development e.g. communication skills, assertiveness,
confidence building, motivation
– Sector specific training – Retail, Care, Hospitality, Warehousing /
Logistics – where there are opportunities
– Enterprise and self-employment skills development
– Accredited qualifications or units towards one
Who is eligible for
SSU?
Individuals who are:
– Aged 19 or over
– Not in employment of 8 hours or more per week
– Lawfully resident in the East of England region
(Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire or
Cambridgeshire)
Priority groups: JSA/IB claimants, lone parents, BME communities,
refugees, economic migrants, offenders/ex-offenders, older people, young
unemployed, people with disabilities/long term health conditions.
How is the Support
Delivered?
• TCHC has developed a network of delivery partners
across the East of England region, to meet the needs of
individuals or groups of clients within their locality.
• Benefits to Learners
 Training & support tailored to the individual’s specific needs
 Mentoring & support for people with additional problems
e.g. disability, health, motivation
 Intensive support to find work
 On going mentoring once in employment
Moving on in Work
and Life
Are you:
• looking for a career change?
• feeling stuck in a rut?
• looking to return to work after a career break?
• wanting a new beginning?
Moving on in Work
and Life
• Caring for your Future
• You have more skills than you think
• Using the Internet to create social relationships and
effective Job Searching
• CVs and how to get that Job
• Moving on from Redundancy
• Planning to move into Retirement
You have more skills
than you think
• If you are a parent, who has been out of work for a
long time and you are thinking of getting back into
the work or learning, this is the course for you.
• It will help you to identify the skills you have and
how they can be transferred into work from other
aspects of your life e.g. work, home, learning.
You have more skills
than you think
This workshop usually lasts 2 hours.
Content:
 Be aware of the skills you have and that everyday tasks involve a range of skills
 Identify the skills you are confident about
 Understand that these skills can be used in a variety of contexts
 Recognise the skills you have gained through the different roles you have taken on
 Find out how to present your skills to best effect
 If looking for employment, identify how you can transfer your skills into a work
environment
Follow up one to one support session: This could include advice on:
CVs, part–time employment
or learning, etc.
You have more skills
than you think
“It gave me an opportunity to get some of my
confidence back (having children made me lose
confidence). You believe again you will have your
life back on track and can go back to work.”
Hyde Children’s Centre
Moving on in Work
and Life
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Caring for your Future
You have more skills than you think
Using the Internet to create social relationships and effective Job Searching
CVs and how to get that Job
Moving on from Redundancy
Planning to move into Retirement
CMD Services, HCS Careers Ltd, Exeter House,
1 Amor Way, Letchworth Garden City, Herts, SG6 1UG
( 07534 924056 ( 01462 704936 ( 0800 1582455
* [email protected] / www.hcs.co.uk
Find out about us @www.hcs.co.uk
Shaun Reason Tel: 01462 705000 E: [email protected]
Anne Barker Tel: 01462 704936 E: [email protected]
E: [email protected]