Search Process
Entering your Second Career
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The BET is immensely fortunate in having superb contacts with literally thousands of job opportunities |
However long people serve in the Armed Forces, that time is of course only a proportion of their working lives. Whether they leave the Services after a few months or after 30 years, most people will be looking for a second career. Clearly, for those who are WIS, this is likely to be much earlier than they had anticipated. This makes it vital that they are given the very best professional help to assist them with this essential process. The BET is immensely fortunate in having superb contacts with literally thousands of job opportunities. These are available – even in these times of recession and serious unemployment – because of the BET’s links with the 600-odd work-based learning Providers across the whole of the United Kingdom and covering every single occupation you can imagine.
Work-Based Learning Providers are the key
These Providers possess government-supported contracts with the relevant Departments of State and their agencies to deliver skills training, leading to vocational qualifications, with employers throughout the country with the aim of getting people into jobs.
Because these 600 are professionals, with above all the well-being of their clients paramount, there is great enthusiasm for doing something really worthwhile which will benefit, in a totally practical way, those members of the Armed Forces who need some additional help in achieving sustainable well-paid employment.
How can the BET help?
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All that PRUs have to do is to email the BET office and describe what sort of job the individual requires; where it should be located; at what level the job should be; and any physical or mental constraints which would limit the carrying out of duties related to the appointment concerned. |
The simple structure that the BET has now set up, in support of the MOD, and the three Services (including the ARC and its PRUs), means that what is described as “successful employment” can now be achieved for anyone who wants a job.
What does the PRU/PRO need to do?
All that PRUs have to do is to email the BET office and describe what sort of job the individual requires; where it should be located; at what level the job should be; and any physical or mental constraints which would limit the carrying out of duties related to the appointment concerned.
The PRO will be asked to forward the individual’s CV, ideally just two sides of A4 – which will be sent to the chosen work-based learning Provider. The Provider will contact an appropriate employer, and the individual be called forward for interview.
Into Sustainable and Supported Employment
Once the initial contact is made and followed through, the link will be: the PRO to the employer; with only a mentoring role remaining with the Provider and the BET. This means that, throughout the duration of the Programme, the WIS individual will have as support:
- The employer, including the work-based supervisor (e.g. office manager, foreman);
- The trainer assessor from the work-based learning Provider;
- The PRO
