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Glasgow youngsters can kick-start their careers with a free BT work placement
BT is on the lookout for 15 young people in Glasgow who are ready to kick-start their working life with a free work placement.
The 15-day course, which combines hands-on work experience and tech know-how with coaching and training, is open to anyone aged 16 to 24 not currently in education, employment or training.
BT work placements offer the opportunity for people to build confidence and learn practical work skills such as CV writing and interview techniques. Attendees are given a certificate showing their attendance and achievements to demonstrate their commitment to prospective employers.
The next work placement in Glasgow starts on Monday, July 17, 2018 and will beheld at BT’s office, Dial House on Bothwell Street, Glasgow. For more details or to apply visit www.bt.com/workready.
The beginning of the course focuses on building and developing key skills such as writing a stand out CV and application, interview techniques, self-confidence and computing skills.
This is followed by a week ‘on the job’, shadowing employees and getting hands on experience of the working day. This will be an opportunity to work alongside engineers from Openreach, the business responsible for Scotland’s largest phone and broadband network, as they build and maintain the miles of fibre and copper cables that connect UK homes and businesses to local telephone exchanges.
The final days of the work placement are spent doing mock interviews and developing an individual plan of the next steps to find employment or return to education.
Brendan Dick, BT Scotland director, said: “A BT work placement is a fully supported programme, which can inspire young people, giving them the confidence and skills they need to either start their working life or return to education.
“I would encourage any young person looking to get on a new career path to join a work placement. We regularly run courses in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen so even if you can’t attend this particular course register your interest to make sure you don’t miss out in the future.”
BT work placements are part of the BT Work Ready programme which is a series of initiatives provided to help young people, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, gain employment skills and get them ready for work. It’s part of BT’s commitment as a founding partner in the Movement to Work coalition of employers.
Since 2014 to date more than 3,500 young people from around the UK have participated in the programme. More than half of those who have completed have gone on to either gain employment or return to education.
Further information on BT’s Work Ready programme – www.bt.com/workready
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About BT
BT’s purpose is to use the power of communications to make a better world. It is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions, serving customers in 180 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to its customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband, TV and internet products and services; and converged fixed-mobile products and services. BT consists of six customer-facing lines of business: Consumer, EE, Business and Public Sector, Global Services, Wholesale and Ventures, and Openreach.
For the year ended 31 March 2017, BT Group’s reported revenue was £24,062m with reported profit before taxation of £2,354m.
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About Openreach
Openreach is Britain’s digital network business.
We’re 30,400 people who connect homes, mobile phone masts, schools, shops, banks, hospitals, libraries, broadcasters, governments and businesses - large and small - to the world.
Our mission is to build the best possible network, with the highest quality service, making sure that everyone in Britain can be connected.
We work on behalf of more than 590 communications providers like SKY, TalkTalk, Vodafone, and BT, and our fibre broadband network is the biggest in the UK, passing more 27 million premises. We’re also the platform for Britain’s thriving digital economy, which is the largest in the G20.
We’re working hard to give people the speeds they need to run and enjoy their daily lives. Over the last decade, we’ve invested more than £11 billion into our network and we now manage more than 160 million kilometres of cable stretching from Scotland to Cornwall, from Wales to the east coast. And we’re continuing to take that network further - making superfast broadband speeds available to thousands more homes and businesses every week.
Openreach is a wholly owned and independently governed division of the BT Group, and it is a highly regulated business, with more than 90 per cent of our revenues generated from services that are regulated by Ofcom.
Any company can access our products under exactly the same prices, terms and conditions.
For the year ended 31 March 2017, we reported revenues of £5.1bn.
For more information, visit openreach.co.uk
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