Hi. My name is Gareth Richards.
I'm a Working Wales Careers Adviser for Careers Wales,
and i’m based in Caerphilly.
As a Working Wales adviser,
when we're working with
people who are under notice of redundancy or recently made redundant,
the biggest thing for them is knowing all of a sudden what their options are,
especially if they've been in the same job for a good few years.
They may have no idea of what's available out there,
what support they can get, what options they have.
Through the interviews and the guidance and, you know,
the little bit of research.
We can help them then make the right choices for them
to access the right training.
If you find yourself unemployed
or under notice redundancy or recently redundant, then ReAct+ is
a funding scheme with up to £1500
available to any individual to retrain or upskill.
We look at the skills and the experience a client has and then we
look at the transferable skills into what the labour market is offering,
you know what jobs are out there.
Someone potentially could have been in a job for 30 years
and that job isn't in high demand anymore.
But what skills have they got from that job that they can
then transfer to a new role?
If a client comes in and they know what they want to do,
and they may just need to know what qualifications they need to do that.
Then we can do qualification searches, training provider searches.
We can access the ReAct+ funding grant, then to pay for that
training to get them
the qualifications they need to apply for the jobs that they want to do.
There are other
aspects of support. There's boundaries
between where they are and where they want to be.
We can help them develop a road map stepping stones to get from where they are
to where they'd like
to be, and if there is any boundaries or barriers in the way we can put support in place.
So a simple barrier might be they haven't got a CV, they've never had a CV.
We can write CVs with them.
We've got specialists within Careers Wales who do that.
If it's something a little bit more demanding,
we may have to then refer them to an external supporting agency.
And it may be sometimes it's just funding they need for that
for those qualifications, which is what ReAct+ specifically does.