This section highlights local programmes, services, and organisations that help people move into or sustain employment.
It includes information on job search support, CV and interview preparation, skills development, training opportunities, and employer engagement.
At the Alba Explorers Centre for Outdoor Innovation, we’re redefining what it means to learn outdoors. Through immersive environmental education and hands-on rural skills training, we empower the next generation with knowledge, resilience, and a deep respect for nature. Our programmes are designed to reconnect people with the natural world—cultivating stewardship, responsibility, and practical skills that prepare them for the future.
Rural | Skills | Environmental | Education | Outdoors | Employability | Young people
All in Angus provides specialist employability support to individuals aged 16-67, who have a health condition or disability, and are looking for work.
We can also support parents who are currently unemployed or employed and looking to improve or change their career.
Enable Works delivers tailored support throughout Angus, at a place and time that suits you. This support ranges from CV building and interview techniques to managing health challenges at work, employer engagement and in work support.
If you are interested to learn how we could support you, please contact us.
Skills | Support | Career | CV | Employability | Interview techniques | Young people
If you live in Angus and want to improve your English, we can help!Contact us if you, or someone you know, wants to improve their English.
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Free classes available in Forfar, Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, and also online.
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Employability | Unemployed | Skills | Young people | Recruitment | ESOL
Angus Council Skills & Employability Team – General InformationKeywords
Employability | Unemployed | Skills | Young people | Recruitment
Learning | Qualifications | Employability | Volunteering | Digital | Skills | Reading | Writing | Numeracy
Angus Women’s Aid is a specialist linked domestic abuse service offering a range of domestic abuse/coercive control support, domestic abuse advocacy and domestic abuse court advocacy services for women, children and young people through a range of projects –Keywords
Domestic Abuse | Coercive Control | Specialist Services | Women’s Aid | AWARE | Limitless | CEDAR | Employability
Offering support to young people (16-24) and young parents under the age of 25 with employability skills, training and qualifications. Supporting them to find employment that suits them, organising work placements to enhance their experience and skills. We also offer in-work support for 1 year after employment has been gained.Keywords
Employability | Funding | Training | Qualifications | Young people | Skills
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are partners in the delivery of devolved employability services such as Fair Start Scotland.
DWP deliver a range of employability support services for employers and for people seeking work.
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The Jobcentre Plus working together with employers leaflet is a summary of services Jobcentre Plus offers to employers.
The number of specialist advisers dedicated to helping disabled jobseekers to secure and stay in work, has been boosted with an additional 315 Disability Employment Advisor (DEA) roles who will be in jobcentres across the UK by May 2021, bringing total numbers to 1,115 once the process is complete.
Jobhelp provided a range of job search help and advice, including hints and tips on latest vacancies. Hear from Jobcentre Work Coaches on how to find a job by clicking on the following link: https://jobhelp.campaign.gov.uk/
The Kickstart Scheme provides funding to create new job placements for 16-24 year olds on Universal Credit who are at risk of long term unemployment
Employment | Support | Employers | Skills | Education | Employability
At Developing the Young Workforce Tay Cities, we empower young people with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive as they transition from education to the workforce. Our employer-led initiative bridges the gap between schools, colleges, and employers across Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross, making it easier for businesses to connect with and inspire the next generation. Together, we provide young people with valuable opportunities to understand and develop the skills essential for their future success.
Education | Learning | Development | Employers | Employability | Skills | Young People | Apprenticeships
On top of the hundreds of courses we offer to create pathways to employment and further education, we also make a positive impact on the local community through various initiatives and partnerships. By fostering an inclusive and supportive environment, D&A College aims to empower individuals and families, breaking down barriers to education and creating a brighter future for everyone connected to the college.
Education | Learning | Development | Courses | College | Employability | Skills
Dundee and Angus College Arbroath Campus:
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Dundee and Angus College Montrose Learning Centre:
Our motorcycle mechanics program ties into racing both locally and nationally. Our youths build the bikes, we have team members that race them, and attend race events as Pit Crews in Scotland, England, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland to show off their mechanical skills.Youth Development | Motorcycle | Mechanics | Bikes | Building | Employability | Skills
Murton Trust manages a thriving nature reserve, visitor farm and tea room, on the outskirts of Forfar. Murton provides a unique environment in which children, young people and adults can learn and develop skills for life. We wish to enrich people’s lives by using our site as an educational tool that has a positive impact on all ages.
As a Scottish charitable organisation with a dual purpose, situated on a former sand and gravel quarry, Murton Trust manages and enhances the natural heritage on the 100 acre site and currently utilises the landscape to provide opportunities for young people from Angus and Dundee (aged 14-19) who are disengaged from formal education, to gain meaningful vocational qualifications or work experience in hospitality and land based skills.
Murton Trust is a Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) accredited vocational training centre, our education programmes make significant differences to the futures of challenged young people. We support those currently at school and those who have left school with no positive destination who are at risk of future social and employment exclusion, as a consequence of little or no school achievements.
We also operate Murton Tots Outdoor Playgroup throughout term time, working with pre-school children in an outdoor setting introducing them to the benefits of playing outdoors and experiencing nature at an early age.
Education | Young people | Skills | Qualifications | Training| Employability
We work specifically with single parents (of any gender and any age), to support them to break down barriers to get into employment, education and/or training. This is completed through parent led support in areas including; confidence building, CV reviews and interview preparation, empowering them to pursue and achieve their personal goals and reach a positive destination.Contact
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Parenting | OPFS Employment Support | Employability
The Salvation Army’s Employment Plus service offers tailored support to help people become job-ready. Our aim is to help job seekers to get a job and stay in work.
Whether you need help applying for jobs, building experience, polishing your CV, or simply want a welcoming space to job‑search alongside others — we’ve got you covered. Drop in anytime on Thursday’s between 10am and 1:00pm and let us help with your employment journey.
Chapel Street, Forfar, DD8 2AB
Employment | Support | Food | Community | Social | Employability
Skills Development Scotland’s roleScottish Apprenticeships benefit businesses, individuals and the Scottish economy. Apprenticeship jobs give people the chance to work, learn and earn to get the skills employers want. They give employers the critical skills to adapt, sustain and strengthen their business. Skills Development Scotland (SDS) administers Scottish Apprenticeships on behalf of Scottish Government, which incorporate:
Skills | Apprenticeship | Work | Learn | Support | Development | Employability
We are a youth employability group through sport. We provide 10 week employability courses where we teach interview, CV skills and provide support in job/college applications. We also put on street football sessions every Friday 2-3pm and Job Club out of job centres on Monday afternoons 1-3pm.Keywords
Employability | Football | Job | College | Skills | CV
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