Services for Clients

Are you unemployed and looking for work?

New Challenge provides a range of FREE services to help unemployed people significantly increase their chances of finding employment. The core service offer comprises the following:

• Assessing your skills through targeted basic skills assessments and in-depth careers interviews, allowing us to work closely with you to identify your career and training objectives and to help you achieve these goals
• Matrix accredited since 2002, we are able to provide you with careers information, advice and guidance to enhance your employment prospects, or if necessary help you identify the right vocational training
  
• Developing an action plan that helps you and your advisor plan your journey back to employment
• Job brokerage and recruitment service to match your skills and experience with the opportunities presented through the many employers with whom we work
• Specialist numeracy and employability skills training: (a) Maths 4 Living; and (b) Maths 4 Employment
  
• Employability skills training and support for older workers (40+)
  
• Short, intensive employer driven customised training driven by the specific needs local companies recruiting for specific positions

Job Brokerage

If you are looking for work and could benefit from having the support of a dedicated recruitment advisor to help you find the right job, then you should register for our employment programme.

Finding the job you want can transform your life; not only in terms of money but by boosting your self-esteem. Our aim is to help you get back into sustained work that will help you develop and progress in the future.

By building on your current skills, as well as helping you to develop new ones, we will help you take advantage of new opportunities, so that you can progress in your chosen field.

We want the right thing for you, so we will only put you forward for vacancies that you are suited for. Only by working with you in this way can we hope to achieve what is right for you and your future.

How does it work? You will be assigned a highly experienced, dedicated employment advisor, who will spend time with you on a one-to-one basis to get to know you, identify your skills and experience and put together an action plan that is completely tailored to your needs.

This support is customised to your individual needs and you are at the centre of it. Whether it’s advice about your CV, a mock interview, background research to a company or further training you need, we will listen to you and help you realise your goals!


Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG Services)

Depending upon your qualifications, we can provide you with careers and training information and advice, delivered by qualified IAG practitioners. Through our funding partner, Prospects, we are linked into a partnership of some forty-five organisations that may be able to provide you with training or jobs.

Forty Plus Employment Skills

This course is exclusively for unemployed Brent residents over the age of forty, who require information, advice, guidance and support in the form of customised training, to help them find work. The training includes initial assessment of your skills and experience, followed by an intensive two-week training programme covering personal career goals and objectives, identifying skills and transferable skills, motivation, developing a professional CV, completing application forms, and interview techniques. This is done with reference to the expectations of employers and as a result, many of our clients are successful in securing employment.

For maximum effectiveness we work in small groups and the course is delivered by a highly experienced and qualified tutor. The tutors use a range of materials and media to deliver the training, including videos and printed materials. All students have full access to high-speed broadband connected computers, which allows you to put what you are learning directly into practice!

On completion of the course, you are allocated a dedicated recruitment and training advisor, who is on hand to help you search for and apply for jobs. Additional support includes regular progress reviews, help with application forms, researching companies and mock interviews.

Numeracy Skills

Depending on your needs and level of prior attainment, we offer two numeracy skills courses.

Maths 4 Living  is offered to help equip you with the essential numeracy skills needed to deal with day-to-day life; such as managing your finances, understanding utility bills and getting to grips with bank statements.

Maths 4 Employment is a higher level numeracy course that has been developed to give you the key numeracy skills demanded by employers. This includes decimals, weights and measures, percentages, fractions etc.

Both the Maths 4 Living and Maths 4 Employment courses are not only there to improve your skills but also to help you find work. Whilst on these courses you will receive support with your employability skills e.g. CV writing, completing professional application forms and interview techniques but also further support to find work once you have finished your training

How much does it Cost?

If you are unemployed, our services are FREE!

Please call us on 0208795 3999 to make an appointment or email us at info@newchallenge.org