Specialist Fire & Security resourcing consultancy - Zitko has unveiled Talent: a new industry-wide training initiative designed to address the growing shortage of engineers trained for design, engineering, commissioning, and support.
Talent is a coalition of employers, manufacturers, training companies, and industry bodies, who are coming together to provide a year’s structured paid employment and certified training specific to the trainee, their employer, and their job.
Security technical training
This is alongside an appropriately supervised job, generally in the installation
Highlights include 125 hours of accredited security technical training (classroom and distance) and around 160 hours of manufacturer-provide training, with certifications in up to six systems. This is alongside an appropriately supervised job, generally in installation.
Zitko MD - George Zitko, said: “We work for over 120 integrators and installers in Fire & Security. Many tell us they would love to train more people, but are put off by the logistics, costs and perceived risk that trainees will be ‘poached’."
Methods and key systems
George Zitko adds: “Talent is heavily tailored to trainees’ and employers’ precise needs. Your trainee will have been carefully matched to your company and then receive specific training in your applications, methods and key systems."
He continues, “Basically, their skills are purpose-built for your business, so you’ll gain a team member who’s absolutely in their element with you and far less likely to leave. All at a fraction of the price of training on your own, thanks to our economies of scale.”
Full course admin support
Content is structured thus, in close cooperation with the employer and the trainees themselves
Talent has been developed with a wide audience in mind. There are streams for school and college leavers, university graduates, engineers in other relevant industries, ex-force personnel, and career changers who have a particular technical aptitude.
Content is structured accordingly, in close cooperation with the employer and the trainees themselves. The Talent team provides full course admin support and a helpline for participants so they can get the most from the program.
Expertise in talent mapping
Zitko Talent will also be handling program marketing, the application process, and detailed shortlisting. This leverages the company’s proven expertise in talent mapping and pipelining for the Fire & Security Industry.
Priya Vencatasawmy will be the operational lead on the program for Zitko, reporting to the Board. She joined the company as a consultant in 2019 from Johnson Controls, where she coordinated technical training and CPD for a large field engineering workforce.