We wanted to give our learners the opportunity to improve their employability prospects both at home and internationally by helping them to gain some of the soft skills that employers seek through a blend of classroom learning, industry related visits and work experience. These skills include a positive attitude, being a good communicator, the ability to teamwork and self manage, a willingness to learn, ability to use initiative and make decisions, being punctual, motivated and resilient. Such skills will help our learners to carry out their future job roles to the best of their ability, providing they also have a good technical understanding and reasonable subject knowledge of the role they are in. We also sought to improve our institution's international presence in Germany and strengthen our ongoing partnership with Akademie Klausenhof. We felt that this was especially important after Brexit
The main objective of this project was to improve the employability prospects of our learners, by equipping them with the required mindset, skills and practical work experience to give them a good understanding of what it takes to work in the domestic labour market as well as further afield in Europe and beyond. This objective also helped fulfil identified strategic needs and goals of the college within our European and International strategy: -Provide students with relevant learner experience, skills and knowledge to enhance future work opportunities in Europe and further afield. -To boost skills and employability for learners that have fewer opportunities -Increase mobility opportunities for students and staff at our institution -Build on our position in Europe as a gateway to the wider world -Increase European collaborations -Boost Skills and Employability of our students especially in areas strategically important; Construction, Fabrication and Welding, Engineering, Hospitality and Catering. -Increase links with other EU countries post-Brexit -Enhance opportunities for cooperation and mobility with partner countries -Raise awareness of our college Grŵp and the region of north Wales