IVA partnership delivers more NVQ Assessor job seekers for FE Careers.co.uk

Even more NVQ Assessors will be searching FE Careers for a new job after the announcement that a strategic partnership has been struck between the Independent Verifiers and Assessors (IVA) and FE Careers.co.uk.

The IVA is an association of over 4,000 NVQ Assessors and Verifiers working in FE Colleges and Work Based Learning training providers. From August 06 the two organisations are partnering and FE Careers will be providing an ongoing recruitment advertising platform for the IVA’s NVQ Assessor and Internal Verifier members to source their next job. FE Careers sister news site FE news.co.uk will also be continuing to report on Work Based Learning news through the partnership, several IVA members have already shown a lot of interest in regularly writing for the news website to provide a dedicated NVQ and Work Based Learning voice within the media.

FE Careers.co.uk is dominating the Work Based Learning and NVQ Assessor job advertising market through their partnerships with the leading industry associations. FE Careers have now announced four partnerships with bodies representing the Work Based Learning industry. FE Careers and FE News also partner with the Association of Learning Providers (ALP), The Association of External Verifiers (AEV) and the Institute of Assessors and Verifiers (IAV) providing job advertising and a constant voice in the news.

Gavin the CEO of FE Careers and FE News comments on the significance of the partnership with the IVA We are really pleased to be working with the IVA to provide an ongoing source of Internal Verifier and NVQ Assessor job opportunities with FE Careers and an ongoing voice for Work Based Learning on FE News. The IVA and FE Careers is excellent news for both our job seekers and job advertisers. Our job seekers are being made aware of the main associated bodies in work Based Learning and NVQ, enabling a stronger platform to promote the benefits of Apprenticeships and NVQ to Government and industry. The partnership will also be of great benefit to IVA members with a continual stream of relevant and targeted NVQ job vacancies on FE Careers and an ongoing commitment to report on Work Based Learning in FE News. We believe that the IVA partnership will be especially interesting to our Association of Learning Provider job advertising clients, as the IVA partnership is yet another ongoing source of experienced and qualified NVQ Assessors and Verifiers who will be targeted and interested in their job vacancies.î

ìThis is great news for the Work Based Learning industry, FE Careers is has become an invaluable platform to introduce Training Providers, FE Colleges, and NVQ recruitment agencies to qualified and experienced NVQ Assessor, Internal Verifier, tutors and Lecturers. At last there is a dedicated recruitment advertising platform for the Work Based Learning industry, and our partnership with the IVA guarantees an ongoing commitment from FE Careers to provide NVQ Assessor recruitment advertising.

FE Careers partnership strategy has proved a powerful method of drawing together job advertisers seeking experienced and qualified candidates within FE. Each month both FE Careers and FE News attract over 1 Million hits, 84,000 visitors and 18,000 unique visitors - all of which are usually highly experienced and qualified traffic.

Gavin goes onto explain the difference FE Careers is making in the FE industry Many of our job advertisers have found huge benefits in using FE Careers as a job advertising platform. Prior to FE Careers they literally could not get the staff! Many Training Providers could not reach a dedicated pool of Lecturer and NVQ Assessor staff and because of this they had no other choice but to recruit candidates from industry and train them to be NVQ Assessors or Tutors. The main problem that the Training Providers faced was time, it takes at least 6 months for someone from industry to be able to work on their own as an Assessor. Trainee NVQ Assessorís must have their learner portfolios counter signed by an experienced Assessor. This affected the learner, the productivity of the organisations team of Assessors and ultimately the organisations Government contracts, so recruiting the right staff is a very big issue. Prior to the launch of FE Careers, there were no dedicated NVQ and Work Based Learning job advertising services. Now we have offered a choice to NVQ recruitment agencies, Training Providers, FE College job advertisers and to lecturers and Assessors looking for their next career move. This is great news for the FE industry, Learning Providers and NVQ job seekers.

The industry has already noticed a difference through using FE Careers. Louise Butler from ZedX recruitment has been using FE Careers advertising services and has been impressed with the results: ìWe are very pleased with the quality of candidates applying to our vacancies... FE Careers may become our main source of attracting candidates.î

July has been a successful month at FEcareers.co.uk with long term job advertising deals being agreed with Protocol National, Fern Training and Development, Glotel and WorkAble.

We have been given a sneak peek into some of the developments that are in the pipeline at FE Careers and there will be plenty more announcements in the coming months. FE Careers is in the early stages of yet another re-development. FE Careers are excited; yet very tight lipped about these new developments; according to Gavin the new developments will be more significant than their RSS launch. This should be very interesting as FE Careers launched a RSS job and News service over a year ago and many of the leading job sites have yet to integrate this technology into their websites. When I asked what they were developing I was answered with a broad smile and a promise that we will be the first to know. Letís wait and see what FE Careers have up their sleeve!

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