If you want to get a job after Year 12, it’s important to remember that continuous learning will improve your long term career prospects.
Success thorough Skills is the Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland and provides an overarching framework for the development of the skills we need.
Many training opportunities are offered through a series of programmes and funding if you:
More and more employers are looking for workers with higher level skills and qualifications. So, if you want to start work, finding a job with training will give you better long-term prospects.
You can learn through work in a way that suits you. For example, you could study part-time during evenings and weekends, or through distance learning which is can be online or by a correspondence course.
If you want a job that guarantees excellent training, an apprenticeship could be for you.
Apprenticeships are available in a wide range of employment sectors and as an apprentice, you earn money while you learn and study for nationally recognised qualifications.
Steps to Work is a new and fresh approach to help you to find work. It offers flexible options of work related activities that can be made to suit your employment needs. When taking part in Steps to Work you will be allocated an adviser who will provide support and guidance to help you decide which opportunities best suit you.
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