After relocating from London, Helen was finding it difficult to transfer her skills from the Broadcast Media industry in to a role close to home. Joining the STEM Returners programme with BT, Helen was able to utilise her broadcast engineering skills to start a rewarding second career. Here is her … Read more about A relocation and a skills transfer: Helen’s story
Corey Taylor had amassed lots of experience in security systems through a long and varied career working with various technologies in the electronic security sector. His career included time spent in the Army as a Communications Engineer as well a subsequent career in project engineering. Having … Read more about Returning as a mature student. Corey’s story
Despite having a BSC in Computer Science, MSC in Information Systems, Mphil in Research and 7 years in academic research, a career break meant that Connie’s job applications didn’t make it past the first round through standard recruitment channels. Her skills were viewed as ‘outdated’ in an industry … Read more about Returning to a ‘fast moving’ industry after an 8 year break
After a 10-year break from mainstream employment Patsy wanted to re-start her career in software engineering, a skill that she had kept current in her break. As a degree qualified engineer with a successful previous career she was confident as she started her search. She very soon found that her … Read more about 10 year career gap to Software Engineer at BAE Systems
Stephen Booker has just accepted a permanent position with BAE Systems as a Technical Publications Specialist on completion of a 12-week STEM Returners programme, a programme that saw 100% of its returners retained in permanent positions. Following a 22-year career with the Royal Navy Steve had a … Read more about Returning to Defence after a 2 year career break
Despite building a very successful career Richard found himself on a career break following redundancy. Knowing that his skills were in short supply he wasn't concerned until a few months passed and he wasn't hearing back from applications that his skills were closely aligned to. It appeared that … Read more about RETURNING AFTER REDUNDANCY TO A DIFFERENT CAREER
Cavendish Nuclear, the UK's leading nuclear service company, is seeking engineers and planners who are looking to return after a career break. From April 2019, Cavendish Nuclear will be running a STEM Returners programme with placements based in its team supporting the construction of Hinkley … Read more about RETURN TO WORK OPPORTUNITIES WITH CAVENDISH NUCLEAR
Beginning his career as a Technician apprentice Vaughan had created a long and varied work history, specialising most recently in Project Management. Spending most of his career in permanent roles, Vaughan was unsure how best to apply his skills to a rewarding second career after his last short … Read more about Vaughan’s return journey to BT
