{"id":127676,"date":"2023-06-07T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=127676"},"modified":"2023-06-06T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:07:00","slug":"retrofit-academy-launches-new-careers-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/retrofit-academy-launches-new-careers-hub\/127676\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofit Academy launches new Careers Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Retrofit Academy has launched a new Careers Hub to give retrofit clients and contractors access to skilled workers<\/h2>\n<p>The UK government recently allocated \u00a31.8bn for the retrofitting of homes, requiring a sizable, skilled workforce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/retrofitacademy.org\/retrofit-careers-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Retrofit Academy Careers Hub<\/a> provides tools for people looking to start their career in retrofit, by connecting them with employers and jobs and giving them networking, knowledge resources and training opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a programme of regular virtual events and online forums available.<\/p>\n<p>Via the hub, companies can set up a virtual stand to share information about their business, interact with prospects and advertise retrofit employment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>CEO, David Pierpoint, said: &#8220;Retrofitting 27 million homes in less than 30 years is going to require hundreds of thousands of new, skilled people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Retrofit Careers Hub will provide those people with a front door to the industry, providing information, advice and guidance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are now able to offer our partner companies a platform to access the best fresh talent entering the sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With more than 400,000 competent retrofitters needed to achieve our 2050 carbon-saving targets, The Retrofit Academy is driving the development of the workforce by delivering 200,000 of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having already enrolled 5,000 people to our courses, this new Hub is a key enabler for everyone involved in the whole house <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/retrofit-skills-shortage-undermines-plan-to-upgrade-19m-homes\/124849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retrofitting challenge<\/a> to develop and access a qualified workforce to achieve this goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Retrofit Academy has launched a new Careers Hub to give retrofit contractors access to skilled workers, and provide tools for people looking to start their career in retrofit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[882,172774,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-employment","8":"tag-retrofitting","9":"tag-training"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Retrofit Academy launches new Careers Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Retrofit Academy Careers Hub provides tools for people looking to start their career in retrofit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/retrofit-academy-launches-new-careers-hub\/127676\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Retrofit Academy launches new Careers Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Retrofit Academy Careers Hub provides tools for people looking to start their career in retrofit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/retrofit-academy-launches-new-careers-hub\/127676\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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