Yesterday, our Managing Director, Jeremy King, and Sales and Marketing Assistant, Eleanor Russon, conducted presentations which hopefully inspired budding engineers at Codsall High School.
Engineering has proven to be a popular optional subject at the school situated just 8 miles away from Jenks and Cattell in Wolverhampton and being so local to the school, our aim is to encourage the pupils to follow an engineering career and potentially apply for apprenticeships in presswork, toolmaking, welding and laser at our site.
We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of pupils who had already decided to follow an engineering pathway aged just 13-14, and Jenks and Cattell Engineering will do all that they can to support their career path.
Jenks and Cattell have employed apprentices for the past few years that have gone from strength to strength, but with a rise in demand, we are looking to increase our apprenticeship take-on and our focus today was to ensure that young people in the Wolverhampton area know about Jenks and Cattell as a small engineering company so that we stand a chance against bigger, international engineering companies.
Today the BBC have announced that unemployment rates are falling, however 850,000 young people in the UK are still out of work, and we believe they could benefit from a long term and prosperous career within engineering, particularly at Jenks and Cattell Engineering.
Jenks and Cattell Engineering and Codsall High School plan to continue the existing relationship with Jenks and Cattell employees taking the time to help at events including mock interviews, workshops, site visits and providing work experience to pupils as well as sponsoring them in arising engineering events