Tandem - What do they offer?

Tandem offers:

• A free, friendly, flexible service to help customers (aged 15 years + (and left school), there is no upper age limit, living in Darlington) make realistic choices to increase their job opportunities
• Support for them to progress into employment, training, education, apprenticeships or voluntary work
• Help to build confidence in their strengths and abilities
• Funding for training
• Support from a mentor to help them plan and progress

On a one-to-one basis we can:

• Help customers find the ‘best’ job for them via a range of career guidance activities
• Help them write or update a CV and cover letters
• Help them search and apply for jobs
• Complete application forms
• Help them prepare for interviews
• Find and fund training courses

For small groups, we deliver a range of personal development sessions, such as:

• Knowing me / knowing you (confidence building)
• Do skills pay the bills? (skills and transferable skills)
• Work that communication! (communication skills)
• Teams work (team working and problem solving)
• There’s doing and there’s doing things better (determination, initiative and motivation)
• The 5 P’s (proper planning prevents poor performance) (planning, organisation and time management)