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oyster.” Filmed at the company’s offi ces in Falkirk, and now available to view on SELECT’s YouTube channel, the video also features a contribution from TClarke Scotland Managing Director Gary Jackson. He says: “Apprenticeships are important to the industry to keep developing a new skill base. “It’s a busy market and there’s
a low availability of skills, so as a prominent leader in apprenticeships, we feel that it’s an important thing to keep doing.” The video was produced in partnership with the Scottish Joint Industry Board (SJIB), the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT) and Unite the Union. Fiona Harper, Director of
“I’m enjoying it; you’re never left alone on site, there’s always someone there supporting you and making sure you are safe. I’m treated like a daughter or a sister and everyone I’ve worked with has been lovely. “The really exciting thing is the opportunity to travel the world once I have completed my apprenticeship and become a qualifi ed electrician.” The Power of Apprenticeships also features another TClarke employee, Elyse McBride, a qualifi ed electrician who is now offi ce-based and training to become a quantity surveyor. Elyse – a former SJIB Apprentice of the Year fi nalist in the SELECT Awards – said: “Completing an apprenticeship as an electrician was fundamental to me moving into a managerial role. There are any number of diff erent paths that can
“Apprenticeships are important to the industry to keep developing a new skill base”
Gary Jackson,
TClarke Scotland Managing Director
be followed as a qualifi ed electrician,
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Employment and Skills at SELECT, said: “This rise in female applicants to become apprentices is excellent news, particularly as it came during Scottish Apprenticeship Week itself. “An electrical apprenticeship for a young woman, just as for everyone else, is a life-changing experience which can open many doors, not only to further career progression and global travel, but also to professional regard and life fulfi lment.” Four female candidates recently took part in a pre-application course at West College Scotland, Paisley Campus, with three of them now undertaking a work trial with an electrical company.
Fiona, who is also The Secretary of the SJIB, added: “There is a world of opportunity for young women in the electrical sector.
“With this fi lm we hope that we can encourage many more of them, currently
in school or college, to consider an electrical apprenticeship as a serious
career option for their future.” Gary Jackson CABLEtalk APRIL/MAY 2020 25
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