About Employment Support Team – Aberdeenshire Council
The Employment Support Team (EST) is the council’s central point for employment support. The team coordinates the Aberdeenshire Employability Partnership, which is geared to help people into work and training.
The EST assists anyone living in Aberdeenshire who is actively seeking employment, or looking to enter education or training to gain full-time or additional employment. We can offer practical assistance if you are returning to the work market following redundancy or after an absence such as raising children or health issues or perhaps you are looking to retrain for a better job.
We offer one to one support from a trained Key Worker, who will assess where you are in the job market, where would you like to be and help plan how we can help you get there.
Everyone has skills, just not everybody realises this. The EST will help you find your potential by developing your personal plan with milestones to show your progress towards your employment goal.
Our Key Workers are skilled in pre-employment techniques to set you on the road to work readiness through building self-esteem and confidence. They will give practical help supporting you to create a professional CV and help you with interview techniques, communication skills and personal presentation. If you have no or poor digital skills we can offer practical guidance to improve this.
Other types of assistance we offer:
Delivering employability sessions and workshops
Providing information on learning/training and employment opportunities from partner agencies
Support finding affordable and flexible childcare and access to short-term financial help with childcare costs
Support in finding short-term financial assistance with items such as work clothing, travel and even groceries when you first start work
Advice about money and benefits
The Employability Service can support you to find:
paid employment
workplace experience
voluntary work
self employment
training
We can support you and the employer for as long as you need our service.
We can provide practical support in helping you find employment. Typical support may include:
career guidance – looking at your skills and strengths, and finding out about the areas of work that interest you
job search – we can contact employers on your behalf, identifying suitable vacancies and setting up job opportunities
help with writing a CV – if you need your CV updated we can provide practical advice on how to get your CV noticed
interview practice – you may not have had an interview for some time, or you want to improve your interview skills, we can help improve your interview performance
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Employment Support Team – Aberdeenshire Council
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The process of making a referral to this programme involves filling out this short form. This information will help the training provider learn more about your client and process your referral.
This form should take 5 – 10 minutes
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