The UK Government spends millions of pounds every year helping people back into work. Ixion can help your organisation access a range of grants and funds that are in place to help unemployed people back to work and to help businesses access thousands of potential candidates.
examples of key contracts...
Ixion has 2 x PRIME contracts with DWP worth c £4.5m
Ixion CG Ltd has a JCP contract worth c £5m
Recruitment can be a costly process, in time and in money. However, using Ixion as your recruitment partner can reduce that cost: and in most cases, to zero.
1. Ixion may be able to access Government funding for you if you have a vacancy that you want filled.
2. Ixion will find you the right CV and sift candidate(s) from a variety of sources at our finger tips.
3. Once you offer an individual a position Ixion will help coach, mentor and train your new staff in the early stages of their employment - and it’s absolutely free!
4. Working with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and Job Centre Plus (JCP) and a whole range of other organisations involved in recruitment, training and ‘soft work skills’, Ixion can be the ideal answer to your current and future recruitment needs
Ixion offer programmes that are matched to national standards.
We provide top quality, effective support, IAG, coaching and training designed to meet the needs of the participants.
We drive forward several target-smashing employability initiatives by proactively acting upon both employers’ requirements and individual’s needs and aspirations. Skills for Jobs, for example, is aimed at:
- reducing unemployment “through more effective engagement” and
- moving “individuals into sustainable jobs through support, learning and achievement of qualifications.”
What this practically means is that our experienced and qualified tutors and advisors take the learner on a coordinated journey. First by asking the right questions and assessing needs. Then by building the learner’s confidence and employability by taking small steps through Skills for Life training, job search skills, sector-specific short vocational courses and CV-writing.
The Ixion model is designed to free participants from the barriers of finding employment and personal achievement. Based on a competence framework, retention and application.
The Ixion Business Model
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KNOWLEDGE
A Participant can have knowledge, but if they don’t have the skills to use that knowledge it will frustrate and impede their progress.
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KNOWLEDGE
Select appropriate materials and scenarios to stimulate the imagination, involve Participants. Use interaction, associated experiences (Buddy system)
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SKILL
A participant will not become skilled at using that knowledge if they do not practise.
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SKILL
Develop a participant’s accuracy and ability in job search skills and interview techniques through an integrated course approach.With the aid of their Coach, the Participants identify the skills they need.
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CONFIDENCE
A participant will not practise if they do not feel confident enough to practise.
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CONFIDENCE
Use a humanistic approach and confidence-building exercises. Confidence begins when Participants realise that mistakes are a sign of development not failure. Distance travelled.
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MOTIVATION
A participant will not feel confident if they are not motivated.
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MOTIVATION
Build individual and group motivation using environmental and social factors. Use Ixion motivation-building exercises for self-esteem, the Buddy system for group dynamics in learning and self help
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ATTITUDE
A participant will not be motivated unless they have a positive attitude
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ATTITUDE
Address environmental factors, bridge barriers to job seeking and attainment. Demonstrate distance travelled. Be sensitive; accentuating the positive and reframing the negative.
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LEARNING STYLE
Each learner’s ability to learn depends on his or her own learning style.
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LEARNING STYLE
Ensure that all delivery is presented using the 8 multiple intelligences.
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