Employment and skills
Unemployed or looking to change careers?
We have two FREE careers events in the Southampton area:
Employment and training support for SNG customers
Wednesday 6 November | 10am - 2pm | Lordshill Library, Lordshill Centre, Southampton SO16 8HY
Get job advice, bring your CV for review and find out how to access courses. Open to SNG customers only.
Careers confidence session in partnership with Business in the Community (BITC)
Tuesday 26 November | 10am - midday | Barclays Eagle Lab, Southampton SO14 7SJ
See the day-to-day running of a business, speak to professionals about their career journey and find out more about how our employment and skills service can help you progress. Open to all.
Email employmentandskills@sng.org.uk for more information.
Our Employment and Skills Team offer a personalised service of guidance, support and practical help to any SNG customer looking to access training or work.
So whether you’re looking for a first job, would like to gain a qualification or are planning for the longer-term, get in touch by emailing employmentandskills@sovereign.org.uk.
- Customer grants to help you access training and work opportunities.
- Support with your CV.
- Finding the right job for you.
- Improving your interview skills.
- Completing successful application forms.
- Training and qualification opportunities.
- Digital skills support.
- Help with self-employment; business start-up and business resilience.
Yes, the team can also work with you to help you find better work or move your career forward. For some customers this can mean:
- Increasing their earnings through better pay or more hours.
- Finding more secure work (for example, moving away from zero hour or fixed-term contracts).
- Finding work closer to home to reduce travel costs or to fit around caring for children or family members.
- Changing to a sector where there are good career progression opportunities for higher paid or higher skilled jobs.
If you’d like to get in touch to see how the team might be able to help you, then please email the team or call 0300 5000 926 and ask to speak to the Employment and Skills team.
Customer grants
As part of our Thriving Communities strategy, we’re delighted to offer employment and skills grants for SNG customers to enhance access to training, skills and employment opportunities, whatever your work goal.
To apply, you need to be working with one of our Employment and Skills Team, so please send them an email for more information.
What’s the grant for? To support you in accessing training and qualifications that will help you find a job or better job.
Employment and skills programmes
We work with a range of partners to create, fund and deliver projects that help our communities access employment, skills and training opportunities.
Skills 4 Work is a completely free, 1-2-1 employment support and coaching programme. It's open to all Isle of Wight customers.
Run by our partner Enterprise Cube 
, Strive Live is an online course for SNG customers who are looking to start a business.