Sector Routeways: Early Careers is a new youth programme offering people aged 16-24, the opportunity to secure meaningful paid employment by raising aspirations and employability skills. The Early Careers course will include: Structured classroom delivery Employer engagement Workplace industry experiences. This course will offer young people bespoke support to understand and access the job market, … Continue reading Sector Routeways launches Early Careers course for young people aged 16 – 24 →

Opportunity Sheffield is recruiting for three Sector Routeways courses starting May 2024. Sector Routeways is a project offering sector specific courses that lead to jobs. These short and focussed boot camps have been designed to reflect the huge growth happening in these sectors in Sheffield. These boot camps include classroom training and industry work experience. … Continue reading Sector Routeways is recruiting: Manufacturing & Warehousing, Business Admin and Youth Programme →

Opportunity Sheffield, the Employment and Skills Service within Sheffield City Council, has a new brochure featuring referral information for its 2024-25 UK programmes. The document outlines: Voluntary & Community Sector projects commissioned to provide employment support for economically inactive and unemployed residents who are looking for work Sector-specific training courses, which include study for vocational … Continue reading Opportunity Sheffield employment & skills programme referrals 2024-25, including VCSE projects →

Opportunity Sheffield's first jobs fair of 2024 took place last week, with over 150 local people attending the event at St. Mary's Church and Conference Centre on Bramall Lane. The event was supported by a wide range of employers looking to hire, and community organisations offering wider support to unemployed and economically inactive residents. The … Continue reading 150 jobseekers attend first Sheffield’s Working jobs fair of 2024 →

Opportunity Sheffield’s sector-specific training and employee progression offers will relaunch in April 2024, as the third year of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) regime gets underway. Activity previously funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), up until December 2023, will shortly recommence as part of Skills & Employability South Yorkshire Programme, which is being … Continue reading Opportunity Sheffield’s sector-based training & employee progression offer relaunches under UKSPF in April 2024 →