Career Attraction
Attracting New Entrants & Promoting Careers
Attracting more, high quality people into the home building sector is one of the biggest challenges we face, that is why home builders are committed to:
- promoting home building as a primary career choice with well understood career paths, exceptional training, qualifications and prospects;
- recruiting a more diverse workforce to assist in improving the skills gap facing our industry; and
- being inclusive and progressive.
It is important we create and promote the industry as an attractive image and career choice. Our aim is to inspire not only new recruits but influencers such as parents and careers advisors by promoting the breadth of careers choices and earning potential and opportunities for progression.
To help address this, the Home Building Skills Partnership has developed and launched a series of initiatives.
Home Building Ambassadors
Home Building Ambassadors have a key role in the promotion of careers in home building and attracting more people into the home building Industry. As an employer, it is an opportunity to build networks across the industry, sector and community and get involved in local and national careers events. The Skills Partnership is collaborating with STEM Learning to allow more opportunities for ambassadors to get involved, to find out more and how to register to be part of a much bigger campaign click here.
Career Resources
We have put together some career resources to provide you with tools and information on careers within the home building industry, entry routes and the skills you will need. Click here to find out more.
T LEVELS - INDUSTRY PLACEMENTS
T Levels are new courses that follow GCSEs and are equivalent to 3 A levels. These 2-year courses, which launched in September 2020, have been developed in collaboration with employers and businesses so that the content meets the needs of industry and prepares students for work, further training, or study. To find out more click here.
Pathways into Home Building Careers
Following the publication of CITB’s Strategic Plan and because of CITB’s continued limited resources and changing priorities within the sector the Pathways into Construction Project will no longer be financially supported by CITB. We are maintaining contact with delivery partners and employers engaged in the delivery to date to ensure we continue to support individuals who participated in our programmes. It is important for us to continue to support these under-represented groups to increase diversity in our sector and we will be promoting more opportunities to get involved in this work over the coming months.
To find out more about the Pathways programme click here.
The Attract campaign promotes homebuilding careers to school, college leavers and ex-armed forces personnel. The campaign continues to develop to target more key audiences and showcases the varied roles and pathways available within the sector.
To find out more about the campaign click here.
HOUSE BUILDING CAREERS WEBSITE
A dedicated Careers website where individuals can find out about the industry, what types of careers and job roles are available, earning potential and case studies on individuals in the industry. It explains how to get into home building with defined entry routes and a dedicated page for employers to promote their opportunities to potential applicants, across the country. To find out how to promote your home building opportunities contact the Skills Partnership
DWP Employer Support - Initiatives & Programmes
The Department for Work and Pensions has released a number of initiatives to help individuals access work and support employers with their business needs. To help you understand the programmes available and how they can support you click here. Kickstart, Find a Job, Apprenticeships are all initiatives that employers can get involved in.