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 »

We believe that seeing what fellow OLCI students have achieved with their qualifications can really help motivate everyone. With that in mind, we would like to share with you a recent success story from one of our students, Alan Van Kleef:

A former musician, Alan used to own a recording studio where he worked as a Sound Engineer for over 10 yrs. As business slowed, he decided to retrain so he could set up his own company in a new industry. It was then that Alan decided to train with us.

Since completing our Become a Fully Qualified Electrician course, Alan has set up his own business, AV Electrics, which he has been successfully running for the past 2 years. He has since also registered with NIC as a Domestic Installer. Alan has built a healthy client base in London and, in addition to carrying out domestic work, he has also completed many commercial projects.

His advice to other students is to work hard and be as committed as possible, and giving a high quality service to customers in order to generate positive word of mouth. Read more »