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Relay launches vocational support awards
Relay has launched a national programme to identify outstanding young people and help them achieve their particular career goals.
Selection criteria for the Vocational Support Award are broad and include academic achievement, extra-curricular talent and, possibly most important of all, demonstrable commitment and energy.
Support packages are provided by Relay and participating employers nationwide. These might take the form of one-off financial support, tutelage/skills training, or long-term sponsorships and work experience. Each award is designed to be of maximum use and relevance to the recipient.
The first VSA winner is 15-year-old Leon Davis, a Year 11 Dixons City Technical College pupil from Bradford. Leon hopes to become a sports journalist, and to this end, has been published in several soccer magazines and college publications. In addition, he leads his Media Studies and English classes, runs for West Yorkshire and has had trials for Bradford City FC.
Relay has given Leon the chance to hone his skills with secondments at the company’s media department, which works with clients on their communications campaigns. Here, he has taken part in photoshoots and helped prepare press releases.
The initiative is the latest in a series of education support programmes by the company, which include the hugely successful Careers Question Time. Among the schemes’ aims are raised awareness of career options open to the UK’s emerging talent; help for young people in realising their ambitions and the direct introduction of organisations to their future employees.
Says Relay MD, Steven Street, “Never have students had such an array of potential career options. It is up to employers and their agencies to both make them aware of these and support those who are single-minded enough to have set lofty targets already. A diminishing labour pool means that in ten years’ time, HRs will be competing hard for the high fliers.”
To be considered for a Vocational Support Award, applicants should be 22 or under, and in full-time education. Potential candidates should write to Steven Street at Relay’s Salem Street, Bradford, offices, or ring him on 01274 777973.
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