Designed to fast-track recruits into roles with specialist skills, SWAPs provide businesses with skilled individuals in specialisms for notoriously difficult roles.

Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP) can support you to create a skilled workforce for your business. They are designed to help meet your immediate and future recruitment needs as well as to recruit a workforce with the right skills to sustain and grow your business while giving individuals the chance at sustained, meaningful employment.

Lasting up to 6 weeks, they consist of 3 key elements:

Pre-employment training

This will be relevant to the needs of your business and sector to ensure those taking part get the essential skills to succeed in your workplace.

Work placement

This stage helps both your business and the individual as it allows the individual to develop the skills you need as well as get the opportunity to work in your business; this helps you and them determine if you're a match for each other.

Interview

It's essential each individual on the SWAP is given the chance to interview for the job at the end of the programme.

SWAPs can bring a whole host of benefits to your business and your recruitment strategy, which include:

A flexible programme that can be tailored to meet your recruitment needs
Recruit new staff with the right training and skills from the outset, developed through fully-funded pre-employment training
Provide work experience placements for potential employees to ensure they are suited to that type of role and your company
Developmental opportunities for existing employees, for example by working on their mentoring, supervisory and coaching skills
Reduces the risks within the overall process of recruiting new employees
Opportunities for positive publicity to show how like-minded businesses are working together to meet their social responsibilities

For more information on Sector-based Work Academy Programmes, visit the Government website.

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