{"id":73717,"date":"2020-03-24T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=73717"},"modified":"2020-03-24T08:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:08:38","slug":"digital-career-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/digital-career-during-pandemic\/73717\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry &#8216;must embrace digital careers&#8217; during coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beskillsinschools.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Built Environment Skills In Schools<\/a> (BESS) has urged construction employers to utilise the digital revolution as much as possible for training during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/coronavirus-construction-industry\/73346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus pandemic<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>To support and facilitate this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/specific-digital-skills\/70227\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital career<\/a> revolution, BESS has introduced dozens of guides, webinars and CPD-accredited training courses for employers, with much of the content available through the CIC.<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s 4,000 school Careers Leaders provide information, advice and guidance to students. Without the traditional assembly talks and classroom activities from employers, they have expressed concern about their ability to provide timely insight, and have encouraged employers to go digital.<\/p>\n<h3>Courses available to construction employers include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Employer Engagement Scorecard<\/li>\n<li>101 Low-Cost Ideas to Brilliant Schools Engagement<\/li>\n<li>The #BuildBetterStuff podcast<\/li>\n<li>An employee guide to creating impactful Simple Careers Videos<\/li>\n<li>An employer guide to Helping Schools Meet the Gatsby Benchmarks<\/li>\n<li>One-page cheat sheets for school acronyms and safeguarding<\/li>\n<li>A Virtual Work Experience framework<\/li>\n<li>A 12-week Schools Engagement Bootcamp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these are also available through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmapforchange.org.uk\/Home\/About-Us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIC\u2019s #RoadmapforChange<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Digital is a win-win<\/h3>\n<p>Kathryn Lennon-Johnson, founder of Built Environment Skills In Schools, said: \u201cThe current situation globally is making things very difficult for everyone, but it is vital to recognise the support required by those who haven\u2019t yet joined the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world must look very daunting to them, but time won\u2019t stand still and they need to make choices about career pathways and qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Construction has a long-standing and well-established recruitment problem, so we have taken the initiative to support the needs of employers and Careers Leaders during this critical time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Digital content is a win-win for employers because it\u2019s cost-effective to produce, it isn\u2019t restricted by location, and it can be viewed thousands of times with no impact on quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Built Environment Skills In Schools (BESS) has urged construction employers to utilise the digital revolution as much as possible for training during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[277,676,54592,688,882,592,596],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-built-environment","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-coronavirus","10":"tag-digital-construction","11":"tag-employment","12":"tag-skills","13":"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>Industry &#039;must embrace digital careers&#039; 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