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SKILLS FOR ENERGY
Help shape next
year's conference
C Celia Anderson, executive director, EEEGR
C 01493 446535
C celia.anderson@eeegr.com
I'm delighted to announce that the next longawaited
Skills for Energy conference will be in
the first week of July 2013.
We are already considering the audience,
speakers and subjects. We'd love to hear
from you if you wish to provide a paper for
consideration (an official call will go early next
year) or know of a speaker you'd like to hear.
We've had useful meetings with the
Jobcentre Plus of both Great Yarmouth and
Lowestoft where, as a starting point, we were
invited to talk to all the advisors about the
industry and its opportunities and to dispel
some of the myths. We will further develop the
relationship to ensure those unemployed, but
with the right skills and experience to be able
to work in the industry, are helped into suitable
jobs as quickly as possible.
At the time of writing, we were preparing
for the Military Industry Awareness event.
It has been a case of using a full range of
media and networks to get the message out.
But we've also reaffirmed the importance of
managing expectations – no point winding
people up when there aren’t sufficient jobs.
Fabulous news from the University
of East Anglia, and Lowestoft and Great
Yarmouth College. We have an excellent
cohort starting on this year’s MSc Energy
Engineering. There is much interest in the
BEng that starts next year and we have full
cohorts at Lowestoft and, for the first time,
at Great Yarmouth College of Energy Skills
Foundation apprentices.
We are also delighted to be working
with Camouflaged Learning with its innovative
approach to enthusing and inspiring
young people into engineering. Camouflaged
Learning also work closely with Opito and The
Mason Trust.
Last but by no way least – the EPISCentre.
I said last year that I wanted to have it built this
year! We have been exploring options which
have delayed that but we still intend a flagship
building, housing an independent energy
industry skills centre.
Speakers at the Military in the
Energy Industry event in Norwich
Military manoeuvres to
support energy industry
C Louise Jenkins, project co-ordinator, EEEGR
C 01493 446519
C louise.jenkins@eeegr.com
Skills for Energy held an Energy Industry
Awareness event last month for military
personnel interested in getting into the energy
industry after leaving the forces.
The event was sponsored by 3sun,
ECITB, Forces4Energy and PDS Recruitment.
Over 80 attended from RAF, Army and Royal
Navy as well as industry.
A range of speakers from the gas, offshore
wind and other sectors presented on
the opportunities available.
There was also a CV speed-dating
session with HR and local recruitment
companies, where delegates could spend
some time getting feedback and help tailoring
their CV to suit the energy industry.
An Ex-military in the Energy Industry
Network meeting was also held in late september
which helped Skills for Energy determine
the direction of the project for the future.
We will be developing the advice offered
on the Skills for Energy website and run more
industry awareness events in the future.
If anyone who is ex-military and working in
the energy industry is interested in becoming
part of an ever-expanding network as well as
helping us shape the military projects, please
get in contact.
NOVEMBER 2012 – 33