Well, here’s your chance. If you had a direct link to careers advisers and teachers, how much could you do to influence the way they talk about construction careers to young people? Then you need to become an Enterprise Adviser!
Birmingham Construction Careers Week is confirmed! From Monday 9th to Saturday 14th October, businesses across the region will be providing careers encounters for hundreds of young people
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After many months of discussions, BESS is delighted to announce that we’ll be working closely with the Careers and Enterprise Company in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP region!
FEBRUARY – 10th February, 1pm GUEST – Dave Lee, Building Site to Boardroom Following their excellent coverage in Construction News as part of the Mind Matters initiative, we are delighted to welcome our February guest, Dave Lee, director of not-for-profit company Building Site to Boardroom (BS2B), an organisation set up to support mental wellbeing in […]
Tapping the military for construction skills
Once upon a time, an employee just like you decided that the skills shortage in construction needed tackling. Enough was enough. The skills problem had been a concern for over 20 years, and she’d read that only 10% of construction employers engaged with schools. This employee discussed it with her manager, reached out to a […]
If you’re a fan of Apple, iTunes or U2, you might remember the backlash prompted by Apple’s decision to install a new U2 album, Songs of Innocence, directly into the library of 500 million iTunes subscribers a couple of years ago. A completely free album. From one of the world’s biggest bands. Installed with no […]
“Raising awareness” doesn’t work. How do I know? Let’s face it: if doing awareness raising talks in schools a couple of times a year was enough, we wouldn’t have a skills shortage, would we? But ‘raising awareness’ is potentially much worse than simply being ineffective. We want to solve the skills shortage. But the metric […]