SiXworks and STEM Returners has launched a brand new jobs programme designed to assist digital expertise professionals struggling to return to work after a profession break.
Working with return-to-work specialists STEM Returners, SiXworks will host the returners programme at their website in Farnborough, Hampshire, whereas STEM Returners will supply the candidates and supply profession teaching and mentoring all through the paid placement.
On the finish of the programme, returners could also be supplied the chance to grow to be everlasting staff.
Analysis from STEM Returners has discovered that many individuals face challenges when returning to work following a profession break, with recruitment bias towards an absence of current expertise in addition to gender, age and race being flagged as the principle boundaries to entry.
Half (51%) of respondents stated a perceived lack of current expertise was deemed a barrier to employment, a rise from 38% within the 2023 Index. Greater than 1 / 4 (26%) of ladies stated they felt they’ve personally skilled bias within the recruitment course of as a consequence of their gender in comparison with 8% of males.
STEM Returners goals to get rid of these boundaries by giving candidates actual work expertise and mentoring throughout their placement, in addition to supporting them to regulate to life again at work.
“We’re very proud to enter this new partnership with SiXworks to return extremely expert individuals again into work and handle the well-known abilities scarcity throughout the digital sector,” says Natalie Desty, director at STEM Returners.
“Regardless of a transparent want for individuals, professionals who’ve had a profession break are sometimes missed. We should work collectively to make very important modifications in recruitment practices and assist those that discover it difficult to return to the sector.”
