Training4Soldiers

Doing a work placement is a great way to impress future employers and gives you excellent first-hand experience of 'Civvy Street'. It will need to be approved by an agreement made between you, your placement company and MoD. You should seriously consider taking advantage of this opportunity as it provides such a good preparation for future employment. Contact us for assistance.

It offers:

Practical experience in the industry you wish to work in: Regardless of how much you think you have learned throughout your career from your studies you will learn so much information and acquire so many new skills from a work placement. You can never be really clued up on what a job entails until you have been working practically in that role.

Improved Job Opportunities: Increasingly employers are looking for people with practical experience as well as academic achievements. Work placements offer the perfect opportunity to gain this kind of experience whilst still serving. An employer seeing any work placements on your CV will be more likely to consider you for the position.

Awareness of current developments in your sector: A work placement will allow you to question and work with people who work in your chosen career. They will be able to give you a good and personal insight into what the job entails and what has been developing in the industry. This kind of direct and specialist knowledge will often set you apart from other candidates looking for a job.

Chance of a firm Job Offer: Performing well on a work placement can often lead to a firm job offer at the end of it and regardless of this the contacts acquired and networking done during a placement will have put you in contact with people who may well be able to help you enter and progress into your chosen career.

Case Study:

Dean Spratt - Cpl now Mr.

I was concerned about not getting anything booked as I was deploying to Op Herrick 13 in 2 weeks and didn’t have any time to organise my resettlement. After talking to them for 15 minuets I was so much better prepared and they booked all my courses and completed all the paperwork for me, he also kept my wife Laura up to date with every thing in my absence.

When I returned from Afghanistan everything was in place and I completed the NEBOSH general course. The course was perfectly pitched to accommodate all of the students including military and civilian professionals. The course content was structured in such a way that everything was covered and given equal emphasis. Both during the course and in the evening all the instructors gladly gave their time for any extra tuition when needed. As soon as I finished the exam I knew that I had passed because I knew we had covered everything within both papers. Immediately following the course I started looking for the next course to do and booked the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management. This course was ran in the same manner and following the exam I felt confident that I had covered all the areas highlighted and gave clear answers to all of the questions.

During the Environmental course Dean approached me with an offer of a work placement to gain experience in order to prepare myself for life outside the army and in a health and safety role. I then started at Ravensbourne University in London and felt secure in the knowledge that I had the support of Chris and Dean at all hours of the day. I have now been offered a permanent position as the Health, Safety, Environmental and Compliance Manager at Ravensbourne and had a seamless transition from my military career into my new and exciting position.

I would recommend Training4Forces Portal to anyone thinking of leaving the military as Chris and Dean have been in the same position and understand the pressures of making the transition because they have been there too. I have also seen them in both instructional and professional roles and in each they are constant professionals. Both Laura and I am glad of our accidental meeting as they have truly helped us through one of the hardest times of my life.