Frontline Image Ltd Frontline Image Ltd is a Plymouth-based, clothing solutions company, specialising in the design, manufacture and embellishment of high-quality clothing. Frontline is now benefitting from work experience students from City College Plymouth. Working in partnership with this local business, students are also gaining technical skills and knowledge as well as real life business experience. This partnership has been extremely successful with students gaining paid, summer internships at Frontline. Frontline specialise in supplying screen-printed and embroidered clothing. Based in Plymouth, the company work across a variety of clothing markets including corporate clothing, retail, promotional and event merchandising, creating the prints in-house from initial design to final delivery.
Two Business Accounting students, Charlie-Ray Easton and Gerry-Lee Blue, expressed an interest in gaining work experience in the design and print of street wear. The College has a long standing relationship with Frontline, having supplied training to its staff over several years and so they were the obvious choice when looking for work experience opportunities. Charlie was recruited by Frontline and undertook a bespoke training programme for four weeks, designed by the company, and this then led to paid, summer employment. This ensured that Charlie gained experience in design, production, distribution and business support areas of the company, allowing him to acquire extensive knowledge of many aspects of the business.
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Charlie said:
“Working with the company has been great. I have gained valuable work experience, in a field I am interested in. I have learnt about every aspect of the business, something which will look great on my CV. This has also supported my aim of starting my own street wear business in the future.” Bob Serjeant, Operations Manager with Frontline said:
“We were impressed with Charlie’s enthusiasm and attitude towards his work. Charlie helped the organisation immensely through a very busy period and we were happy to offer him a paid summer internship. In fact, we were so impressed with Charlie that we approached the College to take on another student.” Gerry-Lee is another College student benefiting from this initiative with Frontline and has been making a similarly positive impact on the business. Gerry said: “I really like working at Frontline and it has been great to learn how different areas of the business work. Having this work experience will definitely benefit me in the future.” Bob continued: “Gerry-Lee is another fine example of a student who is willing to work hard and learn new skills. Taking on work experience students has been an extremely positive experience for us. The students really helped us during an incredibly busy time and were a real credit to themselves and the College.”
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