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Tackling the skills gaps, recruitment, and retention challenges to future proof your business

April 6th 2023 9.30-12pm
Exhibition Area, Wilton Centre TS10 4RF

Are skills shortages stopping your business from reaching its full potential? Teesside University’s Skills for Growth team is inviting you to join us for a FREE sector skills roundtable consultation for the Tees Valley and get the latest skills insights to help you futureproof and grow your business.

Why Join?

You’ll join the roundtable consultation with leading industry voices from the likes of Andrew Esson (Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult), Graham Wright (RWE Renewables) on how businesses can tackle their skills gaps and labour market challenges to prepare themselves for the future. Our roundtable consultation gathers participants who come from diverse business backgrounds and hold first-hand experience in assisting and supporting businesses in their respective fields.

This meet up and consultation is around the skills gaps, recruitment, retention and training challenges Energy and Renewables sector is facing and what support you would need to tackle these challenges.

Hear from Teesside University Skills for Growth team and get expert insights and the latest information on the Energy and Renewables job market and skills gaps in the Tees Valley, now and in the future, so that you can plan ahead.

You’ll also discover how to tap into consultancy support available locally to help you get the right people, skills and tools in place to help your business grow.

Plus, have the opportunity to add your voice to the consultation and share your experiences on how skills shortages are affecting productivity or preventing growth in your business and help us shape future skills provision in the Tees Valley that works for you.

Who Should Join?

If you work within the Energy and Renewables sector and are based in the Tees Valley (Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees), we want you for this roundtable consultation!

Breakfast will be provided.

About Skills for Growth

Skills for Growth is a fully funded resource for Tees Valley SMEs, part funded by the European Social Fund. It offers free and impartial advice and guidance to support employers to upskill their existing workforce by identifying their current and future skills gaps and training needs, and by acting as a brokerage service to the training provider network.

This event is being delivered and managed by Teesside University as part of the Skills for Growth programme which is joint initiative with Tees Valley Combined Authority. Skills for Growth is part-funded by the European Social Fund as part of the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme in England.

Teesside University as the research partner in this project, is taking a proactive research approach to help shape and inform future training and development provision for SME’s across the Tees Valley and sharing this information via a series of business sector events, including this one.

To find out more, visit: https://www.tees.ac.uk/schools/tubs/skills_for_growth.cfm

External URL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tees-valley-energy-and-renewables-sector-skills-consultation-tickets-589384443737