Babcock teams up with Marine Academy Plymouth for mentoring scheme
Babcock, the leading UK engineering support service and one of Plymouth's largest employers, has teamed up with the city's Marine Academy Plymouth to provide a mentoring scheme.
The move follows a breakfast seminar held last year when the Plymouth Better Together Project, supported by Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, and Bond Pearce solicitors showcased the benefits of mentoring secondary school students as they aim for higher GCSE grades and, in the longer term, improved employability.
Bond Pearce successfully ran a six week mentoring programme with All Saints Academy students advising them on areas such as writing a good CV and showcasing the types of careers available within their firm and around Plymouth.
Now Babcock and Marine Academy Plymouth plan something similar.
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Kerry Evans from Babcock, who attended the breakfast seminar, explained:
"Although the scheme is in the early stages of being set up, we are looking forward to working in partnership with students from Marine Academy Plymouth and developing their employability skills for the future.
"Marine Academy Plymouth is the UK's first marine academy. Its focus is to help prepare and develop the students' career opportunities - for today's traditional jobs and for those that we don't yet know about. We will achieve this through a commitment to high standards and to sustainability."
The Babcock partnership has delighted the academy.
Julie Fellows, director of Marine Specialism at the academy, who is devising the programme said:
"It will be a fantastic opportunity to work with a leading local, national and international company for the benefit of both organisations.
"The business mentoring scheme will underpin our commitment to raise aspiration and skills in the workforce of the future. Our students will gain experience of the attributes that employer's value and an understanding of how to demonstrate them in interviews and the workplace."
Morven Maclean, Project Manager for Plymouth Better Together said:
"I am really happy to see that another scheme has come out of the work that was showcased at the breakfast. Schools and businesses working together is so important for the future of Plymouth."
To find out more about setting up a mentoring scheme or how to become more engaged with schools in Plymouth then please email bettertogether@plymouth-chamber.co.uk
2 Comments
by Waltersmith
Wednesday, February 06 2013, 8:42AM
“I initially missed this classic statement from Julie Fellows. How can students be prepared for jobs we don't yet know about!
"Marine Academy Plymouth is the UK's first marine academy. Its focus is to help prepare and develop the students' career opportunities - for today's traditional jobs and for those that we don't yet know about. We will achieve this through a commitment to high standards and to sustainability."”
by jaygeek1
Monday, February 04 2013, 12:54PM
“Babcock personnel department are a complete bunch of tools & muppets. My girlfriend worked for this company and was completely taken the proverbial p*ss out of.
They never made it clear what her job role was or length of time it would be and when she was finally settled in the role of PA to some department manager they then moved her into some other role to which she felt she had to quit as she was taken on to be a PA not what they tried to get her doing.
Babcock are a bunch of muppets, they are NOT to be trusted when it comes to transparency with employment.
Down with Babcock !”