Teachers who go straight into teaching can stock leaflets but don't have experience to give carriers advice, students and MPs complain.
One solution is a world of work day. Reps of local companies either come into a school. Better still in the town hall landing or other free venue, tables for local companies to hand out their personnel office address and types of worker qualifications wanted. Students take along their CV and get advised on what extra qualifications they would need for a job and what pay, pension and perks each job gives.
I am basing this idea on what happened in the USA. My family was in the USA. The branch of a company closed leaving lots of people without jobs. Personnel had seen this happen before in the marketing industry and knew exactly what to do.
Personnel gave every person leaving a CV listing their most recent job and all previous jobs (taken from files) along with salary and a testimonial/reference from Personnel or somebody else in the company.
(A testimonial is open to be read by the person it describes. So it's not as frank and honest and detailed as the between you and me 'warts and all' reference from the old employer to a prospective employer.)
Personnel then organises a meet the employer/employee day. The venue was the large lobby of a local hotel. The hotel gave it free out of kindness, PR, charity and or expenses to offset against tax. The hotel gained visibility, publicity in the local papers, sales of coffee, drinks, meals all day, goodwill.
Local companies set up tables. Whether they had no vacancies, just a few, or several, they saved time. They were not inundated with 500 letters when they had no jobs. They had CVs to stick in files if somebody left a job and a vacancy occurred, without the cost of advertising or employing head hunters. The preliminary face to face interview was already done by making a quick note. For example: (bright, warm, well-dressed chatty lady, ideal for job on our reception when available, lives nearby). Or (shy but willing to do any job, going to Chicago but willing to relocate back here).
The would be employee doesn't have the anxiety of going for interviews with total strangers. They already have their CV to hand. They have met personnel already. Less stressful, whether dining to enquire, or turning up to meet the prospective boss for job interview.
Afterwards, the lady who was head of personnel took a job in another city. She emailed a newsletter to everybody, listing companies still seeking workers, congratulating workers who had found new jobs, reminding everybody about those still looking and asking them to find out if their new employer had a suitable job. The personnel lady was able to find jobs for several people when her company started a new project.
She came back to the location, Rockville, Maryland (just outside Washington DC) about once a week for a month then once a month. She probably stayed with a former employee once or twice, then another, then in a cheap motel. She held an evening or weekend reunion/party which acted as a mini session for swapping information between former colleagues. It was a morale booster for those still job-hunting. Gradually everybody was found a job.
One solution is a world of work day. Reps of local companies either come into a school. Better still in the town hall landing or other free venue, tables for local companies to hand out their personnel office address and types of worker qualifications wanted. Students take along their CV and get advised on what extra qualifications they would need for a job and what pay, pension and perks each job gives.
I am basing this idea on what happened in the USA. My family was in the USA. The branch of a company closed leaving lots of people without jobs. Personnel had seen this happen before in the marketing industry and knew exactly what to do.
Personnel gave every person leaving a CV listing their most recent job and all previous jobs (taken from files) along with salary and a testimonial/reference from Personnel or somebody else in the company.
(A testimonial is open to be read by the person it describes. So it's not as frank and honest and detailed as the between you and me 'warts and all' reference from the old employer to a prospective employer.)
Personnel then organises a meet the employer/employee day. The venue was the large lobby of a local hotel. The hotel gave it free out of kindness, PR, charity and or expenses to offset against tax. The hotel gained visibility, publicity in the local papers, sales of coffee, drinks, meals all day, goodwill.
Local companies set up tables. Whether they had no vacancies, just a few, or several, they saved time. They were not inundated with 500 letters when they had no jobs. They had CVs to stick in files if somebody left a job and a vacancy occurred, without the cost of advertising or employing head hunters. The preliminary face to face interview was already done by making a quick note. For example: (bright, warm, well-dressed chatty lady, ideal for job on our reception when available, lives nearby). Or (shy but willing to do any job, going to Chicago but willing to relocate back here).
The would be employee doesn't have the anxiety of going for interviews with total strangers. They already have their CV to hand. They have met personnel already. Less stressful, whether dining to enquire, or turning up to meet the prospective boss for job interview.
Afterwards, the lady who was head of personnel took a job in another city. She emailed a newsletter to everybody, listing companies still seeking workers, congratulating workers who had found new jobs, reminding everybody about those still looking and asking them to find out if their new employer had a suitable job. The personnel lady was able to find jobs for several people when her company started a new project.
She came back to the location, Rockville, Maryland (just outside Washington DC) about once a week for a month then once a month. She probably stayed with a former employee once or twice, then another, then in a cheap motel. She held an evening or weekend reunion/party which acted as a mini session for swapping information between former colleagues. It was a morale booster for those still job-hunting. Gradually everybody was found a job.
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