We work alongside hundreds of local and regional employer partners to provide a full-service including recruitment support, workforce training and development, social value initiatives and development of your future workforce, ensuring a pipeline of talent for your industry.
We can support you with any recruitment challenges you may have to fill skills gaps in your industry sectors or look at ways to develop your current workforce through training and development.
We’re experts in construction and engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, power and electrical and new energy. We know the systems and people that can benefit your business – whether that’s sourcing funding, connecting you to other services or extra guidance.
There are many opportunities for you to support your future workforce include offering apprenticeships, work placements, project support, and workplace insight through guest speaker slots and conference attendance. We have a talent pool of students who are apprenticeship and employment ready and we can help you find your next star.
We’re committed to making training and education work for you, delivery company and community wealth and health. We listen to your business needs and create a long-term plan to deliver a team of talented employees.
“We do numerous events with the college and we have had a number of successful candidates come through from those events. It gives us the opportunity to speak to students who have that passion for STEM and where we are looking to recruit. We have built our relationship with the college. They help us with everything. From identifying students for wok experience programme or finding suitable students for our degree apprenticeship programme.”
Mark Duffy
Project Manager, Sellafield Ltd
Chrissie
“We’ve partnered with the college for a few months and we’ve been through the apprenticeship process with them for the first time, which was really smooth, seamless, really friendly. It’s just been easy. The college understood our needs. It’s been a pleasure, genuinely, to work with them all. I would have no doubts to recommend this college.”
Chrissie Bramhall
Social Value Manager, Northstone
Mike
“It’s good that we are a Wigan company and we can use Wigan & Leigh College to carry out our apprenticeships. To think that we can have these young people in the college community and then working in Wigan really resonates with our company. It has a great reputation and it partners with some really good institutions. We have a great relationship with the college.”
Mike Sharkey
CEO, Greenmount Projects
Marianne
“The college has been absolutely amazing and we couldn’t have done it without them. They put the traineeship package together for us. They suggested that the traineeship was a better option than going straight into an apprenticeship and we developed it together which was fantastic.
“We have weekly calls with the apprenticeships team to make sure we are on track and that any issues that may have arisen that week are dealt with. So the communication has been amazing.”