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magine being able to find people with the right skills and a great attitude to fit effortlessly into your business and help it grow, all without the resource and costs attached to managing the recruitment yourself.

We offer a free recruitment service for employers in a wide range of industries, helping businesses innovate in the changing economy, by introducing them to candidates with the passion and potential to make a difference in the workplace.

Pre-Recruitment

Our pre – recruitment programmes are tailored to meet your recruitment needs and can include a work experience placement, and your guarantee of a job interview for participants.

Pre – Employment

Pre–Employment training can be as little as 2 weeks, up to a maximum of 6 and are designed to help you recruit a workforce with the right skills to sustain and grow your business.

Programme benefits

This model is perfect for employers wanting to recruit, train and retain a strong workforce for the future. We can provide a work academy in a range of sectors, including:

Business & Professional

Health & Adult Care

Construction

Engineering

Hospitality & Catering

Manufacturing

Retail

Industry Placements

Programme benefits

T Levels are a two-year programme that provide young people with a high-quality alternative to A Levels. They have been designed by employers, and combine theory, practical and classroom learning with an industry placement (approx. 45 -60 days). After completing the course, learners are suitably prepared to enter the workplace or continue their studies.

How do Industry Placements(T-Level’s) work?

T Level students learn the core theory, concepts, and skills in an industry area and complete at least 45 days’ industry placement to gain real-life work experience. Students spend their placement in a real company learning the day-to-day responsibilities of the industry.

You will offer students a minimum 315 hours (approx. 45 days) industry placement within your business or organisation. This can be provided either as a continuous, intensive placement or in blocks of on-the-job activity. You will train and mentor the students you take on in the same way you would any other new member of staff.

NOTE: T Level qualifications and specialisms are being introduced each academic year through 2025. If there is not a T Level relating to your business currently, the college can still work with you on a pilot placement, matching the characteristics of the above to ensure we’re planning with your sector in mind for the future.

How do T Levels benefit employers?

Cost-effective recruitment

You can avoid many of the costs associated with recruitment by working with us directly. We’ll match our students with your placement opportunity, bringing talented young people into your business.

Early access to young talent

By offering work placements, you’ll have first access to budding students in your industry. If your T Level student displays the right skills, knowledge and attitude for your company, you can offer them a permanent job or apprenticeship when they finish their course – kickstarting their career and helping you build a pipeline of talent.

Increase skills, ideas, and creative thinking

Bringing T Level students into your business gives staff a great opportunity to practise their mentoring skills. Young people bring fresh ideas and new ways of thinking that can help your existing employees think differently about the way they do things.

Increased productivity

An industry placement student needs to be mentored, but they’re also extra resource for you and your team. They could support with a key piece of work, help you meet a deadline or complete tasks you otherwise wouldn’t have time to do.

Improve social mobility, diversity and reputation

Offering work placements can form part of your social value strategy, although you gain benefits, you’re also giving something back to the young people in your community. This can raise your business’s profile locally and nationally – especially as T Levels gain more public exposure.

Employer Incentive

Free Service

Identifying Future Talent

Business Support in peak times

Attract motivated young people to your business, bringing in imaginative and new ideas.

Develop your existing staff’s mentoring and management skills

Save recruitment costs by providing the opportunity to see what the young person can offer, on a no obligation employment basis.

Employer Commitment

No Cost (unless you wish to pay the young person a wage or payment for expenses such as travel and subsistence)

Provide work placement

What Our Employers Say

“We offer industry placements to help Bruntwood get ahead of the game in developing future talent and to give a student hands-on experience and to help them with their future career. I did wonder how I could fit it in running fifteen jobs and supporting Alexandrea at the same time, but she has really brought a lot to the company and it won’t be the same when she goes. ”

Adam Wollinski Mechanical Product

“Working with TCG and T Level students has been an absolute pleasure! Our Workplace Co-Ordinator made the whole process incredibly seamless and enabled us to have great involvement with the students from the start. On our initial meeting we were all so impressed with each student, making the decision so difficult, but we are really looking forward to welcoming our placement to our project.“

Christina Nichols - Regional Social Value and Stakeholder Manager UK North

“It’s been a real pleasure working with TCG and the T Level team at Stockport College. The level of communication between us has been fantastic and the students are clearly very well supported and nurtured. We were very impressed with the attitude, presentation and engagement of each student and so impressed that we ended up supporting more placements than we had planned.”

Becky Larner - Social Value Co-Ordinator

“T-Levels were introduced to The Christie Hospital in 2021, we placed a student Lewis in our Digital tech bar. From the offset Lewis had a phenomenal impact on myself and his colleagues. For someone so young, he has a wise head on his shoulders. The support and excellence in Customer Service provided by Lewis to the trust userbase, cannot be understated. Lewis has impressed to such an extent and prior to commencement of the 2nd year, the trust interviewed and subsequently offered Lewis a permanent position within our 1st line tech support team as part of Digital’s tech bar. Lewis will be a permanent member of staff at The Christie, following his T-Level qualification”

Glen Ferriss – Career Development Practitioner

Work Experience

We work with a variety of employers across Greater Manchester who provide placements for students to gain experience in their chosen field and develop practical skills which are hard to gain in the classroom.

Work experience is vital to young people as it provides them with real-life experiences within the workplace.

They will gain:

Experience

Experience in the workplace and insight into jobs and sectors that they have an interest in

Confidence

Increased confidence, social and employability skills

CV Building Skills

Experience to build their CVs, gain networking opportunities and gain an understanding of how recruitment works

Opportunities

Opportunities to progress onto paid employment with the company

Gain Skills

Gain skills from the on-the-job training which they may not get while studying.

For employers, offering work experience is beneficial for several reasons:

Fresh Ideas

Young people offer fresh ideas and ways of thinking and can help with connecting with the next generation

Improved Management Skills

Providing training and development helps improve management skills within the company

Positive Atmosphere

Young people are eager to learn and passionate about the workplace which can help provide a positive atmosphere for other staff

More Support

Take on more staff to support the growth of the business as well as allow for internal promotions and growth

Recruitment Oppurtunities

Allows recruitment opportunities to build pipelines and offer a wider range of talent and new team members.

Engagement Oppurtunities

Provides engagement with the local community, offering development, networking, and support to the local area allowing businesses to increase the companies profile and turn greater profits whilst helping their community to grow professionally.

How does it work?

Students let us know their areas of interest and chosen careers progression and we them approach you on their behalf. Once students are linked to your placement offer, you will be provided with their contact details.

Students accepted by you then attend your site for the arranged period. Working hours are to be

arranged between yourself and the student, however we assume a 7 hour day is worked

What Our Employers Say about Work Experience

“These students are not only learning how to use state-of-the_art equipment, but actively contributing to the success of our internal broadcasts – all whilst improving their confidence and crucially learning to communicate with adults and adjust to the world of work. ”

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Retail

Free Service

Identifying Future Talent

Business Support in peak times

Attract motivated young people to your business, bringing in imaginative and new ideas.

Develop your existing staff’s mentoring and management skills

Save recruitment costs by providing the opportunity to see what the young person can offer, on a no obligation employment basis.

No Cost (unless you wish to pay the young person a wage or payment for expenses such as travel and subsistence)

Provide work placement

Experience

Confidence

CV Building Skills

Opportunities

Gain Skills

Fresh Ideas

Improved Management Skills

Positive Atmosphere

More Support

Recruitment Oppurtunities

Engagement Oppurtunities

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