has the topic says my son has just left school and has been accepted at college to do plumbing but he needs to find a work placement to go on the course if anyone could help i would be most grateful i know times are hard but there must be someone willing to give a lad a start.
thanks chris please pm

very few placement s around .. good luck with it . :)

Its a shame about work at the moment. If courses need the students to be on a placement, I can see a lot of the courses having very few people on them!

Good Luck

I soooo empathise, my daughter did the same, due to start induction with college this monday, them the work provider pulled out, now she cant start the course, till she finds another placement.

Do try this link though, it has some apprenticeship on for sheffield

www.apprenticeships.org.uk



Q. how do people expect teenagers to find work, when grown experainced adults can't...

Its a shame about work at the moment. If courses need the students to be on a placement, I can see a lot of the courses having very few people on them!

Good Luck

Courses will still remain full Sam. Colleges have to meet their quotas. We really need to revert back to the old style apprentiships whereby the government paid you to take on an apprentice for 3 years, and they did a day a week at college.

Despite the crisis in the construction industry, training centres are doing very, very well. I know 'from the inside' that met-uk fills almost all its places. At £6000 (saving £895 due to credit crunch, and a buy now, pay later scheme :rolleyes: ) for a course, you can imagine the amount of profit it must generate.

Courses will still remain full Sam. Colleges have to meet their quotas. We really need to revert back to the old style apprentiships whereby the government paid you to take on an apprentice for 3 years, and they did a day a week at college.

Despite the crisis in the construction industry, training centres are doing very, very well. I know 'from the inside' that met-uk fills almost all its places. At £6000 (saving £895 due to credit crunch, and a buy now, pay later scheme :rolleyes: ) for a course, you can imagine the amount of profit it must generate.

£6k :wow::shocked:

The expression 'FFS' springs to mind.

thanks for replys guys looks like no course what chance have the younger generation these days

thanks for replys guys looks like no course what chance have the younger generation these days

if he was to put his mind to it, and get on the phone, typing letter etc, sending to companies, im sure he would find something.

if he was to put his mind to it, and get on the phone, typing letter etc, sending to companies, im sure he would find something.

Wrong.

Everyone wants to be a 'plumber' these days..he's competing with thousands of others in the same boat, good luck with it.

Not wrong though am i really.

not a good thing your "parents" coming on here asking..

If i got a call from some ones parents that would be a instant no.

they need to get off there arse and put the effort in them selves and that will increase there chances

DLWOX is right, if the teen had any thing about him, he'd be doing things himself, not letting mummy/daddy do all the hard work.
There is plenty of work out there along with plenty of busy business looking for the right employee (not lazy teenagers).

I was just saying there is an extremely slim chance of anyone being took an as an apprentice in the current climate.

Plenty of work? Do you mind sharing this information you have to me and the rest of the Construction industry?

there will always be work in the construction industry, for someone who charges the correct price and makes a clean job in the time allocated they will always be busy as the best form of advertising is the word of mouth.

domestic work has never really dropped off like the contract work has, the only downfall is the contract workers trying to move into the domestic market and that never works does it :)
its a totally different kettle of fish.

downfall is the contract workers trying to move into the domestic market and that never works does it :)
its a totally different kettle of fish.

...and vice-versa you housebashers don't have a clue on a proper site ;)

there will always be work in the construction industry, for someone who charges the correct price and makes a clean job in the time allocated they will always be busy as the best form of advertising is the word of mouth.

domestic work has never really dropped off like the contract work has, the only downfall is the contract workers trying to move into the domestic market and that never works does it :)
its a totally different kettle of fish.

Thanks JL, you saved me a lot of typing there.

for all you that think i am wrong for trying to help my son that your opinion i cant change narrow mindedness has for writing letter he has about 120 at the last count phone calls a lot more same answer so if u dont have any constructive info please dont post on this tread i didnt start it to debate the rights and wrong of the building industry thanks again to the people who tryed to help