MTCBC Employability

Employability Partnership
The Employability Partnership is co-ordinated within the Adult & Families Social Regeneration Department and it’s aim is to assist local people to engage in activities that benefit their health and encourage learning in order to support the employment agenda.

What Is Employability?
Employability is the combination of factors and processes which enable people to progress towards or get into employment, to stay in employment, and to move on in the workplace.

You may have also heard of the term Worklessness which is a less familiar term than employability/unemployment to describe those who are economically inactive. The economically inactive are people of working age who are not working, not in full-time education or training and are not actively seeking work.

Many people who are unemployed face greater barriers than others when it comes to getting into and moving forward in the world of work. Many are outside the labour market and the cause for this can often be quite complex. Some of these barriers typically include the following reasons that individuals have to overcome before re-entering the workplace:

low confidence and self-esteem
gaps on their CV
bad experiences of work
lack of references
high anxiety
lack of recent work experience
low stamina
out of date core employability skills
lack of awareness of employers' expectations
stigma around mental health problems.

Some individuals may need extra help and support to gain the benefits of work that many of us take for granted. Others may also belong to groups identified as priority groups for receiving assistance through employability programmes, including:

lone parents
people with disabilities
people with mental health problems
the long-term unemployed
young people leaving care
ex-offenders.