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| May, 2006 Learning from Mistakes It’s not the mistakes that matter; it’s learning from then, according to Greg Kaminski of Chudleigh, South Devon, who left school in 2004 with five GCSEs for a job in a Little Chef. A year later, he showed the initiative that will drive his career when he visited the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) website, did an on-line aptitude test and got back a list of local employers looking for carpentry apprentices.
Among those employers was Bovey Construction of Ashburton, which noted his initiative at the interview. They took him on in August, 2005 and are now preparing him for an NVQ 2 in carpentry. Early on, he showed his potential, when he hit a problem, worked out two solutions and took them back to his site manager, John Jones. Insignificant? Not according to John: “Construction needs intelligent people with problem-solving skills who can meet the challenges we face every day on site.” So, in just a year’s time, Greg will be joining the 45 per cent of people working in construction across the country who have an NVQ 2 or equivalent. But, according to John Jones, who on top of his trade qualifications also has an NVQ 3 in site management, that is just the start. “At Bovey Construction, we do specialist one-off projects for architects that require a high level of skills and bring enormous job satisfaction. With the skills that come with an NVQ 3, he can be in the thick of that.” That’s why Greg is now planning to join the growing minority in the industry who progress to an NVQ 3, which opens up a number of career possibilities from site management to running his own business. For the moment, in his words, he wants to be a “really skilled carpenter”, and he is getting there - literally. One of the benefits of his first career mistake was that he was able to save money, which paid for his driving licence and car. It pays to think ahead. For more information about training for construction, ring Jane Turner at Bovey Construction on 01626 821919. |
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