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South Thames College
Supports Local Businesses and Individuals with Launch of Academy Programme
Over the last 9 months South Thames College has proactively been supporting local businesses as they recruit new staff for reopening, by designing and delivering short courses that prepare applicants for a job interview with the company.
The programme has been delivered across a range of sectors, including adult social care, retail, and the Civil Service.
During the 5-day programme learners develop new skills and understanding of the relevant sector, in addition to 2 accredited qualifications. There is no cost to businesses in being part of the Academy programmes, and many have commented on how it has helped them to attract high-quality staff. Learners are referred to the programmes by a number of different sources, including local DWP Job Centre Plus offices, and the National Careers Service. To date 32 candidates have gained employment, having completed the Academy programme with South Thames College, and successfully passed the job interview on the final day of their course.
If you think an Academy programme could support your business in recruiting new staff, please contact Chris Dodd (Head of Employability & Professional Training) at the College via: chris.dodd@stcg.ac.uk who will be happy to discuss this with you.
required to shape digital future
After the huge disruption caused by COVID-19 in the last year, businesses are looking to get back on track and build for the future.
While it’s tempting for companies to stick to what they know, they must become leaders and
That’s the bold message in Accenture’s Technology Vision 2021 study, which outlines five key trends that leaders must embrace to build a better future.
Entitled “Leaders wanted: masters of change at a moment of truth”, the study claims that there’s no leadership without tech leadership, and that the recent rapid digital acceleration has put technology at the heart of global leadership.
Technology has sustained us through the pandemic and now continues to redefine how we work, live and interact. According to Accenture, these are the key tech trends that leaders must embrace to forge a better future:
• Architecting a better future:
companies will now be competing with each other on their technology architecture.
Enterprises can custom-tailor every layer of it now, but building and wielding the most competitive stack means thinking differently.
Business and technology strategies must become indistinguishable. Whoever gains the upper edge on technology stands to emerge as number one.
• The power of massive, intelligent digital twins:
growing investments in data, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twin technologies are giving rise to a new generation of business and intelligence.
Call it the mirrored world. More of the physical world is represented in digital space – with models of whole factories, supply chains, product life-cycles and more. It’s ushering in new opportunities for enterprise leaders to bring data and intelligence together, ask and answer big questions, and reimagine how they operate, collaborate and innovate.
• The democratisation of
technology: technology is democratising. Natural language processing, low-code platforms and robotic process automation are adding a grassroots layer to enterprise innovation strategies.
With democratised technology, every employee can be an innovator, empowered to create technology-driven solutions on their own.
• Bring your own environment:
at the start of the pandemic, enterprises ignited the biggest workforce shift in living memory by sending people home and doubling down on technology solutions to keep them productive.
In doing so, they have made work possible, not just from home, but from anywhere.
• A multi-party system’s path
through the chaos: with multiparty systems, enterprises can gain greater resilience and adaptability, share data more seamlessly and set new standards for their industries.
In the face of the global disruption of COVID-19, they are learning that they are stronger together.
