Skills Launchpad Plymouth
Welcome to the Adult Hub
Plymouth needs you and your skills
Plymouth is an amazing city to live, work, study and play, with career opportunities possible across a range sectors, but we know that for many, difficulties including social isolation, fear of debt, increasing mental ill-health and job worries play a huge role in accessing opportunities.
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Through our Adult Hub we want to help you make an informed choice about your best possible next steps. By understanding your transferable skills from life and work experiences and matching you with opportunities in the city, we can help you to best prepare for your new skills journey and improve your employment prospects.
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What can the Adult Hub offer you?
Whatever your personal circumstances , whether you’ve been made redundant, on furlough worried about what might happen next or considering a changing career, and live in and around Plymouth we can offer you:
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Support for managing change to help deal with the worries and crisis of uncertain employment prospects
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Practical help with CV writing, interview practice and job searching
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The facts about the current and future employment picture of Plymouth to inform your skills choices
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Access to free one-stop impartial information, advice and guidance service to help your shape your careers and skills plan
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Support to become work ready and equipped with the skills you'll need
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Awareness of city-wide career events and opportunities to meet local recruiting employers
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A chance to brush up on key skills to work such as Maths and English, and the all-important digital skills
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Help to keep you informed and match you with real opportunities to work
And if you feel you need to get your head in the right space before you’re ready to take those next important steps, you’ll find support for mental health and well-being too, to help give you the confidence and reassurance to get started.