Throughout the UK there is a shortage of skilled and qualified Electricians to cover a range of different jobs and as the work load increases more and more Electricians are needed. Able Skills are training lots of people in their pursuit of a new career in the electrical industry. Every year Able Skills run lots […]
For the past few years it is a well-known fact that the construction industry is suffering from a skills shortage. With even more construction work being planned across the UK and less skilled workers. The skills shortage is causing a problem for the housing developments as some work isn’t being completed on time due to […]
Lots of students come to Able Skills to start fresh in a brand new career and this is exactly what Sam done. He decided that he wanted to start fresh and begin a new career and he chose to become a Plumber and Gas Engineer at Able Skills. Some students that change their career at […]
The start of the New Year always brings fresh starts and resolutions, each year people will set themselves goals and targets to start as January comes around for the year ahead. One of the most popular goals for the New Year is a starting a new career or learning a new skill. January is one […]
Today was the day that we opened our new electrical centre at Able Skills to offer brand new facilities to our electrical students. Our new training facilities will allow more electrical courses to be run at Able Skills on a regular basis. One of our current level 2 electrical groups were today the first to […]
Gas Safety Week is a national safety campaign to raise awareness of the dangers that gas appliances can bring if fitted incorrectly or dangerously. Every year there are poor fitted or maintained gas appliances in homes all across the UK and this is putting home owners at a serious risk of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, gas […]
Every single year you will find areas within your homes that just need fixing, whether it’s a door that needs painting, a wall that needs patching up or even a kitchen that needs tiling. Every year people will find that they need to fix these type of problems and they very rarely want to get […]
The Sunday Times wrote yesterday that graduates are finding it hard to find jobs in their chosen career path and that a lot of University graduates are finding they never actually work in their chosen career and end up changing in the future. Official figures from have shown that 29% of graduates are actually earning […]
The first course started in our new gas training centre this week as a new group of students started their gas programmes. Richard has been teaching them as they started with a week of pipe skills training. Our current group of gas students have been completing the Pipe Skills course this week and every […]
In July the construction industry fell to lower levels than it has been for seven years, this is largely thought to be down to the Brexit vote and the construction industry suffered from it. However, in the month of August the construction industry showed signs of improvement which was a surprise and was unexpected. The […]
We are looking for a Plumbing Instructor at Able Skills to run a range of Plumbing courses at our centre in Dartford. At Able Skills we run various plumbing courses from short five day courses such as Pipe Skills and Introduction to Plumbing. We also run the longer courses such as the City & Guilds […]
Training as an Electrician can be a long process, however, it is a process that is extremely worth it when you are able to begin your new career in the electrical industry. Laura is now finding out all the benefits that come after this process. A few months ago, Laura was working in the retail […]