{"id":22441,"date":"2019-04-23T16:06:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22441"},"modified":"2019-04-21T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:00:58","slug":"construction-opportunities-offered-to-20-career-changing-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22441","title":{"rendered":"Construction opportunities offered to 20 career-changing women"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22442\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Encon_event_120419_230419.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"430\" \/>An event aimed at recruiting 20 career-changing women into the construction industry took place recently in Cardiff.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Encon website<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CITB writes:<\/p>\n<p>The event, hosted by Encon Construction, will recruit women wishing to work in a range of housing-related trades, along with companies willing to train them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Just 14% of the construction industry is made up of women. Figures estimate that 0.2% of these are female tradespeople. For this reason Encon\u2019s CITB-funded project will focus on re-training women in painting and decorating; plastering and labour (with an emphasis on plant).<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the event, CITB Local Manager, Victoria Walsh, said: \u2018Encon\u2019s recruitment day is genuinely exciting because it will offer new, life-changing opportunities for career-changing women. They will have the chance to develop their existing skills, learn a trade and gain an NVQ Level 2. Training and working arrangements will be tailored and flexible. The project will also see women trained to become construction mentors: good for women, good for construction, good for Wales.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/about-citb\/news-events-and-blogs\/uk\/2019\/04\/news-detail3-construction-opportunities-on-offer-for-20-career-changing-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background see <a href=\"https:\/\/encon.uk.com\/career-changer-recruitment-event-12-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Encon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event aimed at recruiting 20 career-changing women into the construction industry took place recently in Cardiff. image: Encon website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22443,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}