Here at Able Skills we often welcome students through our doors who are looking to change their careers. Over the last year, we have seen this even more. Peoples reasons for wanting a fresh start to their working life are always unique, for one person it may be a financial decision and for another, it […]
Throughout the Pandemic, lots of people have been thinking about their career choices that have lead them to where they are now. For some, it has meant they have had a change of role and for others, it has meant they have changed industry completely! A prime example of this would be James, who has […]
Towards the beginning of last year, a large number of people in the UK were placed on Furlough. This obviously being caused by the Pandemic. Some elected to use this free time to focus on getting fit others chose to learn new skills. Emma is a prime example of this! Emma was an Air Hostess […]
No matter what walk of life you are from there is no doubt that the Covid-19 Pandemic has impacted everyone’s day-to-day lives, some of us more so than others. For some Covid has forced a career change, An example of this is one of our Students here at Able Skills, Kane was a London black […]
Great Feedback from our Electrician courses! Now that we are getting back to it, helping students to achieve their qualifications through our electrician courses and helping them get closer towards kick-starting a new career in the electrical industry…We have been getting some great feedback. Here at Able Skills, we take pride in the training […]
We love a success story at Able Skills and at times like these, to hear that former students have changed their lives for the better after completing our courses, it fills us with joy. Katie is one of those students, she approached us after seeing our #AbleSkillsThrowback on our Social Media Channels and told us […]
Hollie’s success story! It is a difficult time for the whole country at the moment and we hope everyone is doing all they can to stay safe. We feel everyone could do with a success story from a former student of ours who trained with us back in 2018. Hollie began her training […]
Last week saw 5 Gurkhas from Folkestone come down and complete a Introduction to Painting & Decorating Course with us and it was great to have them with us in our centre. Over the years we have had lots of students from the Brigade of Gurkhas training with us across a range of our construction […]
GMB Trade Union has estimated that it will take almost 200 years to achieve gender equality in the UK construction industry, let’s change that! According to statistics, there are an estimated 60,972 more women in the construction industry than there were in 2009, but as a proportion of the overall workforce, women increased by just […]
With one of our Gas Courses being exactly at their half way mark, we always like to check in with our students and see how they’re doing. This is just one of the ways we monitor how effective our Gas Training Courses are in terms of training excellence and gather any tips on how we […]
Become a well-rounded Tradeswoman Today we caught up with one of our returning students on the Introduction to Carpentry course. We thought it would be a good idea to see how a carpentry student is getting on and find out what her first impressions are of not just the centre, but of the course […]
It is a common theme among students here at Able Skills to have a complete career change from the polar opposite of construction. Whether it is Banking to Bricklaying, Accounting to Decorating or even Business Owner to Electrician, we have seen it all here at our centre in Dartford. Trevor is no exception as he […]
