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Transitional support through PROJECT FORTIS
Project Fortis is athriving online network, set up 3years ago by a group of technology experts and veterans with amission to provide men and women leaving the Armed Forces with access to contacts, support and opportunities to help them transition successfully.
The Social Enterprise was set up in 2012 by an early internet pioneer Richard Tyrie, and was originally created in partnership with BT Plc, as away of helping BT employees (BT Buddies) provide 1:1 career support to service leavers and veterans.
Now,with several years of development and their success with BT,the Project Fortis team has been working with the NHS to provide work placements leading to many hires, and are in talks with organisations across various other sectors; all of whom want to do their bit to support the Armed Forces community,and recognise the value of the talent on offer.
“There is agrowing number of people out there from various industries that are
willing to give you the advice you need.”
Why Project Fortis The team at Fortis recognised there was agrowing community of people – ex-forces or civilians –that wanted to provide support to the Armed Forces community,they just don’t know where to start.
Equally,despite the obvious benefits of being able to access advice from people on civvy street, service leavers and veterans sometimes lacked the contacts that make this possible.
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Tyrie says “Now that most of us walk around with Smart Phones, we wanted to make it easier to connect people that need advice with those that are keen to give it”.
He added “Another important aspect of the project is to use our community to provide the Forces family with access to unique job opportunities. Employers now fill the majority of job openings without advertising, with up to 70% of jobs being filled through informal networks. Understanding what jobs are coming up, and getting ‘introduced’ to an organisation or hiring manager by an insider can often give you the edge.
With the advent of social networks, most organisations’ approach to recruitment is changing quickly,so you need to keep abreast of these changes. It’s not as simple as reading the local recruitment ads anymore. Finding agreat job is getting trickier for everyone. We felt this was putting service leavers at adisadvantage before they’d even started their transition –so wanted to fix it by helping people work together to get the job done.”
“84% of people we’ve worked with tell us the relationships they’ve formed through Project Fortis have had asignificant impact on their job prospects.”
So what is Project Fortis? At the heart of Project Fortis is
projectfortis.co.uk –atechnology platform that connects service leavers and veterans to volunteer ‘buddies’
raf-ff.org.uk
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