Benefits for getting involved

The Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure will help to give your business the following:

• Better-prepared and highly motivated young people as future employees who will have a solid sector-relevant foundation from which you can develop the work-related skills and competencies to meet your business needs;
• A more effective method of recruitment by providing knowledgeable young people who have the flexibility to work in a wide range of jobs within the sector;
• Another opportunity for staff development through talks and support for young people;
• The ability to invest less time and money in making young people ready for work and more time and money in developing specialist skills and training that will help to make your business more competitive;
• An avenue for your business to support and participate in the local community;
• The opportunity to reduce your recruitment costs, because young people will have made a career choice based on some knowledge of a sector of employment, and from work experience, having made better informed career choices;
• A reduction in your training costs by providing young people with relevant maths, English, ICT and personal learning and thinking skills;
• A reduction in your induction costs by enabling young people to contribute to your bottom line from earlier on;
• The ability to build better bridges between school and work;
• Your chance to influence the education young people get in school to ensure an easy transition into the workplace;
• Confidence that young people will have the employability skills required that they can apply in workplace situations.

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