Assured Skills

The Assured Skills programme offers pre-employment training to give you the skills needed to compete for new employment opportunities. 

It works with companies in Northern Ireland that have current job vacancies available and offers pre-employment training to meet the skills needed for those jobs.

If you successfully complete an assured skills academy training programme, you will be offered a job interview with the recruiting company.

SERC has partnered with organisations such as ASOS, Deloitte and EOS on successful academies through this programme.

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Assured Skills Academies

If you're unemployed, under-employed, or want to change career, then Assured Skills pre-employment training can help you. You can join in an academy to get the skills that expanding companies want. You will get a job interview when you finish the academy.

It works with companies in Northern Ireland that have current job vacancies available and offers pre-employment training to meet the skills needed for those jobs.

If you successfully complete an assured skills academy training programme, you will be offered a job interview with the recruiting company.

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Assured Skills Programme

When a company is interested in creating jobs in Northern Ireland, Assured Skills provides the necessary support to deliver a skilled workforce through the delivery of pre-employment training programmes.

The Assured Skills programme is a short, demand-led, pre-employment training programme, which is fully funded by the Department for the Economy (DfE), to upskill individuals and help them compete for guaranteed job vacancies in new foreign direct investment (FDI) companies and expanding local businesses.

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Why SERC?

You need to upskill your existing employees and attract talented new staff.

  • We have vast experience of working across all sectors
  • We have highly skilled professional and technical staff
  • We have state of the art industry standard equipment
  • 98% of our customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the support we have provided
  • We are the Northern Ireland Further Education hub for Construction and Engineering Skills
  • ISO 9001:2015 Accreditation on a number of our Industry Standard courses
  • We have access to a number of funded programmes to help support business

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