As we expand into Exeter we are attracting more and more companies seeking the benefits of hosting a European student or graduate. It is always exciting when we have an article in the press and this is no exception. Huge thanks to all the team at Astley Media for arranging a photo shoot and press release for us with the Express and Echo & The Exeter Daily... please share with anyone you know and help us to get the message out to all Exeter business that we are here and able to help. Here is the article, as it is on The Exeter Daily (with a couple of extra pictures and a few links!)
Call for Exeter firms to
go International
A business that connects
trainees from around the world with companies in Devon is expanding its work in
Exeter.
The Training Partnership
puts together companies with high-calibre trainees looking to improve their
business skills, providing short term work placements that benefit both. Placements are supernumerary and funded through
EU schemes such as Erasmus+ and PONS.
Several Exeter-based
organisations are already signed up, including the blur Group, Exeter City
Council and MOTO.
Now the Training
Partnership, based at the Torbay Innovation Centre, is encouraging other Exeter
firms to work with trainees - many of them graduates with good language and
business skills.
Ian Smith, The Training
Partnership Work Placement Manager, said: “It’s a win-win for Exeter companies.
If you need additional support for a particular project, or want to do market
research, explore social media options or need foreign language skills, then we
can help. We work with around 1,000 trainees every year on temporary placements
that range from two weeks to six months.
“It’s a fantastic
experience for people and companies to benefit from having extra support and a
new member of the team from a different culture, working with them. We find
that the more the company has a clear plan or defined project for trainees, the
more they gain as a business. It’s also fun – there’s often a social aspect
that employees embrace. We’ve had trainees organise wonderful Spanish lunches
for colleagues and some great friendships are made.”
Nitin Moorjani, HR and
Talent Executive at blur, commented: “We are committed to providing
opportunities for young people across the different areas of the business. The calibre of trainees which TTPL have
provided us with have always been outstanding, they all are committed to
performing at their best and adding value, which is also thanks to the ongoing
support and training given by our team at blur.”
Maureen Gori de Murden,
Senior Economy & Tourism Officer, Exeter City Council said: “From day one,
all our work placements are treated as a real employee. All of the trainees
that TTPL have provided us with come highly motivated and are a valuable
contribution to the team at Exeter City Council. We choose projects carefully
to ensure that they have the right skill set to perform the task in hand. During their time with us, they are able to
develop commercial awareness and we see their confidence grow day by day."
The Training Partnership
also offers overseas placements to UK trainees and graduates that include
Teaching in Italy, Hospitality in France and Agriculture in USA.
The Training Partnership
team will be attending a range of events in Exeter in the coming weeks to talk
to companies about work placements.
We recently began an exciting working relationship with Torquay United - 'The Gulls', our local, and much loved football team. What a great start it has been with Pierre really enjoying his placement (more from him in a future blog!), so much so that they gave us some tickets for the up coming game against Lincoln (Tuesday 14th April, evening KO at 19:45). We asked our students to produce a funny picture at last weeks Student Meeting at Red Rocks...
Our favorite two are included here - brilliant! Anyone would think that the English are known for queuing - and what is more English than a Beach Hut! There is also a great picture form Paignton Zoo (at this weeks student meeting) where the lucky photographers received their tickets.
