The next time you attend a practical workshop at OLCI, take a look around: you may be training alongside a professional footballer! One such player who knows the importance of getting a trade is midfi elder Simon Whaley. Simon has so far made 275 league appearances for teams such as Bury, Preston North End and Norwich, in a professional football career spanning eight seasons. Read more »

Register for our Solar Thermal course and complete an Ecotube registration form at www.ecotube-kit.com. You’ll then be sent vouchers* worth up to £350 which you can redeem against Ecotube solar thermal installations (£50 for each of your first four installations and £150 for your fifth installation).

* Vouchers are valid for one year. Other terms and conditions apply. Please see www.ecotube-kit.com for details.

As there’s so much gift-giving at this time of year, we thought current OLCI students could enjoy £500 off future training and know that they’ve helped a friend!

To receive your £500 voucher, simply recommend a friend to train with us and when they enrol on one of our main courses¹, you can claim your discount vouchers². It’s that simple! Please speak to our Advisors on 020 7430 8447.

¹ Available for friends who enrol on our ‘Become a Qualified Plumber’, ’Become a Qualified Plumber – Advanced’, ‘Become a Gas Engineer’, ‘Become a Fully Qualified Electrician’ and ‘Become a Domestic Electrical Installer’ courses. ² Conditions apply. Vouchers can be claimed after friends have been enrolled for 14 days.

At OLCI, our industry contacts often ask us to find suitable candidates to join them. We then aim to match students to these vacancies using our Job Support Service*. As this is such a popular service, we decided to ask one of our contacts who recently used us to recruit from our students, what they look for in a new member of the team.

Their recruitment process

‘Alexander Plumbing’ is a growing plumbing and drainage business, based in Merton, London. After learning about the type of person they wanted to recruit, we sent them a selection of student CV’s. They firstly short-listed candidates who had clear information on their CV. Suitable applicants then met Greg Alexander on-site for an interview. Greg was looking for someone who was clear, concise, quickly adaptable and keen to get stuck in. Read more »

Do you want discounted bathroom, heating, plumbing, renewable energy products and genuine spares? OLCI students can get an exclusive discount with PTS, one of the UK’s largest plumbing and heating suppliers. PTS have over 300 branches throughout the UK. Call PTS on 01455 551 210.