CTP Employment Team: Who Does What?
Category: Tips and Advice
Publish date: 05/07/2018
The CTP Employment Team provides support to employers with local and national vacancies. Regular Forces Employment Association (RFEA) is part of the CTP and assists ex-regular Service men and women in finding employment, linking you with organisations who are after the best candidates for their vacancies.
We provide employers with a bespoke recruitment service to meet the needs of the businesses we work with; from small scale recruitment to major campaigns. We use your Service leaver profile on RightJob to match you to the roles our employers are advertising with us.
Last year we hit record numbers with over 80,000 quality vacancies advertised by our employers looking to recruit your talent. We regularly review your completed online profiles to generate suitable quality vacancies to match your skills and locations.
RightJob is not the only way you can engage with our employers and their opportunities:Employment Fairs – Every year we promote our Employment Fairs as an excellent way for employers to engage one to one with those leaving the Services. Last year we had record numbers of exhibitors at our events and the feedback from employers and Service leavers was extremely positive. We host 9 events per year across the UK – the remaining ones for 2018 are:
To register for any of these Employment Fairs, please call our Central Bookings Team on 0203 162 4410 or email [email protected]. We offer a
Live Chat facility for you to connect directly with employers via a chat platform on the CTP website. Live Chat is an online event which allows you to have one-to-one text-based conversations with employers. These events are offered to employers who have particular recruitment drives or a large volume of opportunities and details can be found on the
CTP events calendar.
We assist employers to set up their own Company Presentations and events, and we promote these to a targeted audience using the data on your profile. You can also view these on the
CTP events Calendar.
To bring all our employment intelligence to life for you we produce monthly
Regional Employment Bulletins,
employment Focus newsletters and
Industry Sector Guides, to share the information with Service leavers. The Industry Sector Guides have just undergone a major overhaul and are definitely worth a look to find out more about a particular industry.
Employer Relationship Managers
Our Employer Relationship Managers (ERMs) are regionally based and use the profiles on your record to target employers. If there is a particular employer you are looking to engage with, please discuss it with your Careers/Employment Advisor and they feed this to us. We will then do all we can to make a connection.
If you require further assistance please remember the Central Support Team is available to help you on 0121 236 0058 or email [email protected].Role of an ERM
- Development and management of strategic relationships with employers, employer groups and other stakeholders across our region to maximise the number of quality vacancies and opportunities for Service Leavers regardless of rank or length of service, including opportunities for the WIS
- Identify Training opportunities and link in with our Business Development Executives
- Understand your needs, opportunities – Civilian Work Attachments, Apprenticeships, Executive Appointments
- Manage and promote job vacancies using Right Job and other social platforms
- Explain what we have to offer, provide a personalised and be-spoke service
- Provide a seamless integrated CTP working across all cohorts providing high quality, value for money and vocational training
- Be the main point of contact when you have a requirement
- Promote the benefits of hiring service leavers to employers
Recruitment Success
Each year, over 20,000 people leave the Armed Forces and make the transition into the civilian work force. Leavers from the Forces offer a wide range of transferable skills, qualifications and experience. The employment service offered by CTP is used by hundreds of employers who recognise the benefit of recruiting from this pool of talent, and actively seek assistance from us to source high calibre applicants.
Openreach initially approached the CTP to launch their fast-track recruitment programme, due to the high levels of recruitment being undertaken by the organisation at the time. They were therefore seeking alternative methods which could improve both timescales and the quality of the recruitment campaign. Openreach discussed their requirements with dedicated CTP Employment Consultants and were immediately impressed by the quality of Service leaver CVs sent through to them.
In January 2014, Fujitsu signed the Ministry of Defence Armed Forces Corporate Covenant, which sets out the moral obligations of society towards members of the Armed Forces community. In signing, Fujitsu has pledged to support the British Armed Forces, by upholding these key principles.
"We also recognise that those individuals, previously employed by the Armed Forces, can contribute a wealth of transferable skills and experience and that it is therefore important for us as a business to support their integration into the civilian workforce in any way we can.”
If you require further assistance please remember the Central Employment Team is available to help you on 0121 236 0058 or email [email protected].