{"id":84795,"date":"2017-09-26T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f1b982c2061fff481199091541a811fe"},"modified":"2017-09-26T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:03:16","slug":"news-story-veterans-encouraged-to-sign-up-for-career-transition-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84795","title":{"rendered":"News story: Veterans encouraged to sign up for career transition events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The London Veterans and Advisory Pensions Committee (<abbr title=\"Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee\">VAPC<\/abbr>) is encouraging veterans seeking employment to attend a series of career transition events, the first of which will be held on 2 October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The events are organised by companies who are working with the Veterans Employment Transition Support (<abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr>) programme. Alex Jablonowski of London <abbr title=\"Veterans Advisory and Pensions Committee\">VAPC<\/abbr> and a member of the <abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> steering committee said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> scheme continues to enrol  substantial numbers of veterans seeking career opportunities. We also have a strong flow of mentors coming forward to advise and counsel those veterans. 37 signed up in just one week recently!<\/p>\n<p>Job opportunities are continuing to grow and several new corporate partners have signed up in the past weeks who bring with them new roles and mentors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In addition to the events mentioned below, new roles are constantly being added to the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranemployment.co.uk\"><abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> Website<\/a> and it is well worth looking at these and forthcoming events to view opportunities which you may not have considered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The following events are designed for veterans interested in a career in financial services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 to 6 October 2017, Bishopsgate: free week\u2019s training course on management consultancy in the financial services sector, for more information contact <a href=\"mailto:adam.libbey@bishopsgate-financial.com\">adam.libbey@bishopsgate-financial.com<\/a> or telephone 0207 448 3000<\/li>\n<li>20 October 2017, Barclays military cyber awareness: Barclays are already a major employer of veterans, and are offering a series of presentations about the different functions within Barclays and the roles available, for more information contact <a href=\"mailto:john.chantry2@barclays.com\">john.chantry2@barclays.com<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> is a coalition of partners that have come together to support all veterans as they seek to find the right job. The coalition consists of a broad range of leading companies from across the commercial sector such as<br \/>\nBarclays, Carillion, Deloitte, Jaguar Land Rover, the Ministry of Defence, the Career Transition Partnership as well as service charities.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> aims to join up the existing transition support initiatives into a single programme that significantly improves employment outcomes for veterans and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact the <abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> team at <a href=\"mailto:vetshub@barclayscorp.com\">vetshub@barclayscorp.com<\/a> or via the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.veteranemployment.co.uk\"><abbr title=\"Veterans Employment Transition Support\">VETS<\/abbr> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London VAPC points to opportunities offered by Veterans Employment Transition Support programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}