Employers: Skills Bootcamps
Skills Bootcamps are intensive 12-week courses designed to support learners to develop valuable, sector-specific skills. Employers can benefit by using skills bootcamps to develop their team, offering job interviews to graduates, and/or contributing to curriculum design.
How can skills bootcamps help me to upskill my team?
Skills bootcamps can provide many benefits to your business and provide a cost-effective, fast-tracked way to upskill your team. By investing in skills bootcamps, you could:
Reduce staff training costs*
Improve productivity, motivation and loyalty
Stay up-to-date in your industry
Upskill your team in just 12 weeks
*Courses are subsidised, and the employer is asked to pay a 10% contribution (if employing fewer than 250 employees) or a 30% contribution (if employing more than 250 employees).
Interview work-ready candidates
Throughout the year we have learners finishing our Digital Marketing, Early Years and Project Management (Construction and the Built Environment) skills bootcamps equipped with the valuable sector specific skills required in these industries.
Employers can offer interviews to learners who are looking for jobs and have completed a skills bootcamp for any live vacancies that they have.
Our Offer
We currently offer skills bootcamps in digital marketing, project management (construction and the built environment) and early years.
Digital Marketing
Designed to provide learners with the practical and technical knowledge needed to succeed in the digital marketing field, teaching them a wide range of digital marketing techniques.
Course Content
- Planning and Developing a Marketing Campaign: Understanding the process, theories, concepts, and tools involved.
- Exploring SWOT and PESTLE analysis, project management techniques, GANTT charts, and utilising MS Teams & SharePoint, as well as Google Analytics.
- Research and Competitor Analysis: Learning effective research methods such as surveys, interviews, and utilising secondary data.
- Branding Theory: Understanding the importance of visual identity, positioning, and how personality and values contribute to successful branding.
- Regulatory and Sustainability Requirements: Familiarising with GDPR, PECR, ASA, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, and understanding their impact on marketing campaigns.
- Content Creation and Editing: Exploring current and emerging technologies in graphics and image editing, writing impactful and readable content, and optimizing it for search engines.
- Evaluating Marketing Activity: Identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), utilising social media insights, and analysing trends, patterns, and correlations.
- Enhancing presentation skills and effectively presenting the finalised marketing campaign
- The sessions will be delivered over a 12-week period, with 2/3 sessions per week.
- Employability skills will be integrated throughout the course to enhance professional development.
Project Management
Learn the fundamentals of project management and gain the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively manage or assist with projects in the construction and built environment industry.
Course Content
- Aspects of project initiation including project lifecycles, roles and responsibilities
- Development of business cases, and effective stakeholder engagement
- Project planning within the construction industry, this includes understanding project documentation, effective communication planning, risk and issue management
- How to incorporate the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) into the project delivery and key areas of the contract management for the project
- The importance of quality and performance monitoring and management
- An additional feature of this skills bootcamp is the Level 2 Award in Understanding Domestic Retrofit. This part of the course will supply an insight into Retrofit, the different retrofit roles and how to achieve good domestic retrofit using a fabric first approach.
Early Years
Learners will explore and develop their knowledge and understanding of various key aspects within the field of Early Years, whilst gaining professional development and valuable skills to use in the Early Years sector.
Course Content
- Gain a Level 2 Food Safety qualification
Help us to develop our curriculum
We would love your support with the design of our curriculum, shaping it to meet the needs of common development requirements and skills shortages within your industry and organisation. Please get in touch in with us today and let us know what you would like to see!
