Nearly 600 Bermudians Trained, 400 Jobs Found in 2011 | Bermuda ...

Our commitment to crating job opportunities for Bermudians is unwavering. Last year, we helped nearly 600 Bermudians improve their marketable skills and put 400 Bermudians to work.

Minister Minors:

In 2011 close to six hundred (600) persons attended various training programmes sponsored by the Department of Labour and Training. This compared to 219 persons who attended similar programmes in 2010.

The huge increase in the number of persons attending training programmes from 2010 to 2011 can be attributed in part to the Department offering a wider selection of programmes and making these programmes available to the general public as opposed to limiting the offering to registered clients of the Department of Labour & Training. Sustained unemployment levels are of course another contributing factor.

Mr. Speaker, the Department offers a series of soft skills training, computer courses, self help, and financial management training courses.

Soft Skills training consist of Work Place Ethics, Time Management, Interview Skills, Resume Development, Handling Conflict, Boosting Your Job Search Technique, Constructing a Cover Letter, The Power of Networking and Fast Track to a Better Job.

To build computer literacy, courses are offered in Basic Keyboarding, Beginners Computer, Microsoft Word, Introduction to Excel, and QuickBooks. Other business courses include Math Skills for Business, and Business Writing.

Mr. Speaker, there are also self help courses. These include Coping with Job Loss, Career Transitioning, and Employee Rights & Responsibilities.

A series of personal finance courses are another important component of the offering, such as Student Loans & Scholarships, Investing and the Economy, Mortgage, Loans & Credit and Budgeting & Saving.

But, it's not just training services we're offering. We offered dozens of scholarship and apprentice opportunities in 2011. Minister Minors:

Mr. Speaker, the Department continues to assist clients with special areas of study and in so doing provided scholarship funding to nineteen (19) students to attend the Bermuda College during the last year as well as assisted at least four others with tuition at Care Computer Learning Center and the Adult Education Centre.

Further, the Department via its National Training Board unit also entered into eighteen (18) formal contracts for apprenticeships in 2011 and a total of ten (10) companies were awarded tax relief via the Payroll Tax Waiver Programme as a result of the existence of qualifying training and apprenticeship programmes.

Mr. Speaker, to complement the array of training programmes that are designed to prepare jobseekers with new job prospects, the Ministry continues to work to reduce the complement of non-Bermudian workers in areas where it is deemed that Bermudians have the requisite skills to perform the job

The Minister closed by noting the success of training to work programmes like the Horticulture programme and the Waiter/Server programme. Minister Minors:

You will recall the Basic Horticulture Program. This pilot programme began in September 2011 and will run until June 2012. Sixteen (16) participants enrolled in the program. One of the requirements for remaining in this programme is to maintain employment with a related industry partner. It is expected that this programme will be reviewed in consultation with industry to ensure that it is achieving the job ready objective following which a new cohort is expected to commence their studies.

Additionally Mr. Speaker, the Waiter/Server Programme is ongoing and meeting with great success. The first group of trainees who successfully completed the programme have all received job offers. Applications for this programme remains open as we work to achieving our goal of placing one hundred (100) people in jobs as a part of the phase one component of this initative.

New job ready progammes are in the process of being developed and these will be rolled out in the weeks and months ahead.

Mr. Speaker, in 2011 the Department of Labour and Training placed close to four hundred (400) people in jobs mainly in the private sector and employed one hundred (100) summer students via the Government Summer Employment Programme.

Ours is a government committed to putting Bermudians back to work. We won't rest until every Bermudian has access to a rewarding, good paying job.

Source: http://plp.bm/node/5624

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