Leading industry installation company Job Worth Doing
certainly believes in doing things the right way. The company which engages over 120 teams of surveyors and installers on an
annual basis to fulfil its requirements has commenced a programme of training
and qualification to enable it to ‘grow its own’ in the future.
Kevin Bowles General
Operations Manager takes up the story “Our requirement for installers keeps growing
and earlier in the year when we had a particular shortfall I contacted Chase
Taylor Installer Resourcing”.
“We recognised that we needed to find a solution which would
fill the increasing skills gap we were seeing in the industry. We had tried various initiatives in the past
– holding open days on a regional basis, in the evenings and at weekends and
had simply not had any response”.
“Director Paul Lindsay was able to help us out with our
needs, but more importantly alongside that introduced us to their partner GQA
Qualifications who have been writing qualifications for and with the window
industry for over 25 years”.
“Why is this so important?
Simply this, I had been thinking about a young person’s training model
for some time and working with Paul and GQA helped me to come to a landing on it
and made me determined to make it happen”.
“I wanted to find a way of helping and encouraging young
people to enter the window and door industry, but to have a chance to achieve
more than being trainee surveyors and installers; I wanted them to have a
genuine and transparent career path which they could see and follow”.
“Qualifications is a key part of the process and working
with GQA ticked a massive box for me.
The second issue was the provision of practical training facilities and
I was delighted that the company had the same vision as myself”.
“Working with Chase
Taylor Installer Resourcing is great in terms of delivering surveyors and installers
to us in the here and now; but our needs are always going to be greater than
what we can get from the existing labour pool, and ‘growing our own’ is the
surest way of securing our ability to meet the needs of our company business
plan on a long term sustainable basis”.
“As someone who had undertaken a true apprenticeship when I
was younger I understood the need to provide proper knowledge and education if
we were going to bring people into the industry and keep them here”.
“So our plan was developed to build proper hands on
practical and relevant training pods. We
built the first one at our Crawley depot and already have plans to build a
further eleven”.
“It is a massive commitment on our part, the sheer cost of
building the facilities in our depots alone is significant, but add to that the
cost of the 44 apprenticeships we have created to get the ball rolling – and
these are fully employed young people on a real wage to encourage them to feel
that they are genuinely a part of our team”.
“In my opinion it is the only way to get young people into
the sector – give them a proper training programme, pay them the rate for the
job, and show them a true career path to which they can aspire”.
“My job has been really helped by our partnership with Chase
Taylor Installer Resourcing and GQA.
They have helped us significantly and we are delighted to have the
programme up and running as something which can support us, but also support
the idea that bringing young people into the industry is achievable and can
deliver tangible business results”.
For more information on Chase Taylor Installer
Resourcing www.chasetaylorinstallers.co.uk
