What Semta does for Employers
Semta works with and for employers to
understand your skills needs and help you meet them, to tell
government what is needed, and to get public funding.
We also prompt training providers to match employers’
demands.
To find out what we can do for your business download our latest
guide.
Funding for skills
Semta secures funding to support employers
across the UK in training and developing their
workforce.
Our specialist advisers help companies to
assess their skills needs, recommend how they can meet them and
access funding.
Providing the facts
Semta’s research team publishes regular
surveys and analysis to keep a detailed up-to date picture of its
sectors.
They include Labour Market Intelligence
surveys which monitor industry trends and record skills gaps,
skills shortages and how many people hold relevant
qualifications. A solid research base helps Semta
accurately target actions on skills and forms the basis of our
Sector Skills Agreements.
Semta also provides advice and guidance to employers. For
example on why the Default Retirement Age (DRA) has been
abolished and how employers in manufacturing can manage without a
retirement age. Read
more>>
Sector Skills Agreements: a blueprint for skills
Sector Skills Agreements set out the skills
each sector needs to grow and be competitive – now and in the
future - and identify how they will be
supplied.
Semta has drawn up Sector Skills Agreements
covering all our sectors, based on in-depth analysis and
wide-ranging consultation. Employers have led their
development through Sector Strategy Groups and are now implementing
them.
Tools to help your business
Working with Sector Strategy Groups, Semta has
developed a range of diagnostic tools to help you have the right
people with the right skills at the right time.
You can use the tools to plan for the skills
you need, link skills development with business objectives, and
check that training has had the intended effect. Semta’s
benchmarking tool shows where your company sits on a scale of
excellence in training and how you can move up the best practice
ladder.
For a simple skills healthcheck, try our Business 2 Skills online.
E-Learning
Through the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing, Semta
also offers a range of highly cost-effective e-learning programmes
on everything from computers and software, health and safety,
sales, marketing and ecommerce to communication, languages and
growing your businesses. The programmes can be run on your laptop
at a time convenient to your business and range in cost from £9.99
to £150 and in length from a couple of hours to one year. Click
here for the E- Learning
Centre .
Matching education to employers’ expectations
As an employer, you need to know that young
people leaving education have what it takes to become useful
employees.
Semta supports and encourages better take-up
of science, technology, engineering and maths in schools and acts
to ensure degrees contain the elements employers
need. We influence the school curriculum and play a key
role in developing Diplomas and GCSEs so that your company has a
better source of suitable recruits.
We are currently supporting a campaign to ensure that Design and
Technology remains a vital part of the National Curriculum.
Read more or sign
the online
petition.