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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 […]
Staying in the same career path for too long can mean you could feel trapped and too scared to leave and start a brand new career. Having a fresh start in a new career allows you to try something new and not get stuck doing the same job for the rest of your life. Maybe […]
The Jobs for the Girls campaign is working with the NICEIC. and their aim is to get more women working in the electrical contracting industry. They work with many ambassadors that are NICEIC registered and currently out there working successfully in the electrical industry. Their aim to get more women working in the electrical industry […]
There are many ways to get some plumbing skills for many different reasons, whether you just want some basic skills or change career with a Level 2 Plumbing course, at Able Skills we have it all. We run plumbing courses every week and lots of different students come to train for many different reasons. Lots […]
