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KMC
Good evening Gents and Ladies (if there are any more of you out there!),
I have just completed C&G 6035 L2 and have now just had the bombshell dropped that I need to not only take three weeks off of work to complete the onsite NVQ assessment, but I have to find a willing 'volunteer' (my words, not theirs) who can offer me their time on site to prove I can do basic fault finding and maintenance work on a simple plumbing system before I'm even allowed on site to do these NVQ three weeks.
My main issue is I'm not yet in the industry so I have no contacts and taking three weeks off of work is going to be nearly impossible to achieve (I have a hard enough job taking any holiday time as it is). Incidentally, I am job hunting as it is (trying to get into this line of work), but my success rates are currently zilch.
As a 30 year old female in a massively male-dominated industry, I feel I'm slightly at a disadvantage before I start.
I'm Gloucestershire based, desperate to get my foot in the door, but no one wants to employ me.
How does one get started?????
I have just completed C&G 6035 L2 and have now just had the bombshell dropped that I need to not only take three weeks off of work to complete the onsite NVQ assessment, but I have to find a willing 'volunteer' (my words, not theirs) who can offer me their time on site to prove I can do basic fault finding and maintenance work on a simple plumbing system before I'm even allowed on site to do these NVQ three weeks.
My main issue is I'm not yet in the industry so I have no contacts and taking three weeks off of work is going to be nearly impossible to achieve (I have a hard enough job taking any holiday time as it is). Incidentally, I am job hunting as it is (trying to get into this line of work), but my success rates are currently zilch.
As a 30 year old female in a massively male-dominated industry, I feel I'm slightly at a disadvantage before I start.
I'm Gloucestershire based, desperate to get my foot in the door, but no one wants to employ me.
How does one get started?????