TNT Post pushes the local recruitment envelope with pre-employment training
9 October 2013
Postal service TNT Post says it will continue to place pre-employment training (PET) programmes at the heart of its recruitment as it expands nationally, with a director at the firm saying the scheme “really empowers” people.
Thu, 10 Oct 2013
Postal service TNT Post says it will continue to place pre-employment training (PET) programmes at the heart of its recruitment as it expands nationally, with a director at the firm saying the scheme “really empowers” people.
Gary Robinson, the director of TNT Post UK’s end-to-end delivery organisation, was speaking to recruiter.co.uk this week, after the organisation announced its intention to hire for 1,200 new jobs in Greater Manchester, as part of an ongoing plan to create 20,000 jobs nationally by 2017.
Applicants to the PET, which covered employability, team working and customer service, were typically “people who were maybe a little bit less work ready, perhaps had been out of work for a while”.
All those successfully completing the course to the required standard were guaranteed an interview, and after the 15 hours-per-week, four-week employability training programme, 155 out of the 170 starters were put through to interview for the new roles.
Robinson tells recruiter.co.uk that TNT delivered the PET alongside skills and training provider Work Solutions, with some funding from the local authority, expanding on the “successful experience” of a shorter, one-week scheme in West London last year, when TNT announced the first major part of its hiring drive.
A key part of inspiring the trainees was bringing staff who had successfully gone through the course in West London and were now working for TNT up to Manchester, giving them a role model of someone “who’s been in a similar place and have got a positive story to tell”.
“Our message is that we’re creating jobs in the local community,” Robinson says, adding that the PET “attracts a greater diversity, because it’s working with a network of social groups… it really does involve everyone”.
Robinson tells recruiter.co.uk that he took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing people grow through the programme.
“The confidence of the individuals, from seeing people when they come into the course, has been a seriously positive outcome,” he says. “It really empowers people.”
“We will run a similar programme in future expansion areas and will continue to build on the PET together with Work Solutions to further improve the content and delivery of the programme,” Robinson concludes.
Postal service TNT Post says it will continue to place pre-employment training (PET) programmes at the heart of its recruitment as it expands nationally, with a director at the firm saying the scheme “really empowers” people.
Gary Robinson, the director of TNT Post UK’s end-to-end delivery organisation, was speaking to recruiter.co.uk this week, after the organisation announced its intention to hire for 1,200 new jobs in Greater Manchester, as part of an ongoing plan to create 20,000 jobs nationally by 2017.
Applicants to the PET, which covered employability, team working and customer service, were typically “people who were maybe a little bit less work ready, perhaps had been out of work for a while”.
All those successfully completing the course to the required standard were guaranteed an interview, and after the 15 hours-per-week, four-week employability training programme, 155 out of the 170 starters were put through to interview for the new roles.
Robinson tells recruiter.co.uk that TNT delivered the PET alongside skills and training provider Work Solutions, with some funding from the local authority, expanding on the “successful experience” of a shorter, one-week scheme in West London last year, when TNT announced the first major part of its hiring drive.
A key part of inspiring the trainees was bringing staff who had successfully gone through the course in West London and were now working for TNT up to Manchester, giving them a role model of someone “who’s been in a similar place and have got a positive story to tell”.
“Our message is that we’re creating jobs in the local community,” Robinson says, adding that the PET “attracts a greater diversity, because it’s working with a network of social groups… it really does involve everyone”.
Robinson tells recruiter.co.uk that he took a great deal of satisfaction in seeing people grow through the programme.
“The confidence of the individuals, from seeing people when they come into the course, has been a seriously positive outcome,” he says. “It really empowers people.”
“We will run a similar programme in future expansion areas and will continue to build on the PET together with Work Solutions to further improve the content and delivery of the programme,” Robinson concludes.
- Check back on recruiter.co.uk next week for more on employability and bicycles on the TNT scheme…
