{"id":8383,"date":"2014-08-27T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2014-08-27T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T15:48:23","slug":"citb-highlight-construction-job-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"CITB highlight construction job opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is championing the opportunities available in construction at all levels, and reveals some dramatic statistics on misconceptions around training and employment in the industry and discussing action being taken for the varied employment routes<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CITB writes<\/span>:<br \/>\n\u2018According to recent research, 35% of careers advisers in schools believe (wrongly) that construction is an unattractive career, and over 60% offer no information on job prospects based on available work.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to turn this round is to make sure that we reach the teachers and the schools and make them aware of the wide array of opportunities that are available to talented pupils\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the recent work on the CITB website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/news-events\/blogs\/gcse-apprenticeships-and-the-race-for-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Championing construction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/news-events\/blogs\/construction-is-a-great-choice-after-gcses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Post GCSE opportunities\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/news-events\/blogs\/consider-construction-after-a-levels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Construction in further and higher education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/news-events\/uk\/ministers-plot-adult-training-shake-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Changes to adult training<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citb.co.uk\/news-events\/uk\/scottish-job-vacancies-rise-by-ten-thousand-in-two-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtgskills.org\/you-have-the-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHTG highlighting heritage related construction opportunities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is championing the opportunities available in construction at all levels, and reveals some dramatic statistics on misconceptions around training and employment in the industry and discussing action being taken for the varied employment routes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-8383","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\/8383","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=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}