The results were achieved in partnership with local training providers and Jobcentres through People 1st’s ‘employment academies’, which have helped employers find team members with specific hospitality industry skills.
Martine Pullen, responsible for the development of the employment academy model at People 1st, said: “We spent quite a lot of time working with employers, training providers and Jobcentres to get the process right, and that work has really paid off. Our employment academy model has been hugely successful in helping employers to fill roles with enthusiastic and skilled staff.”
The academies are believed to have led to higher retention rates of staff in businesses taking on staff from the People 1st academies.
Pullen added: “Employers using this model are facing far fewer issues with training new staff and then seeing them leave. They’ve effectively broken the cycle of investing heavily in induction training as new staff are hired and are now able to invest their training budgets at higher levels within the organisation.”
People 1st is a skills and workforce development charity for employers in the hospitality, tourism, leisure, travel, passenger transport and retail industries focusing on transforming skills in the sector through the development of effective recruitment, training and talent management solutions.