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SIA Top-Up Training and First Aid Courses in the UK

SIA Top-Up Training and First Aid Courses in the UK

How SIA Top-Up Training and First Aid Courses In The UK to Enhance Your Security Career  In the fast-paced security industry in the UK, keeping your skills up to date is essential to stay competitive. SIA Top-Up Training and First Aid Courses are legal requirements...

How Do I Get a CSCS Green Card Quickly in UK

So, you’ve decided you need a CSCS Green Card. Good move! This little plastic can open many doors for you in the UK construction industry. But how do you get it? Is it a long, painful process? Not really, as long as you know what you’re doing. That’s...
You Can Still Train Employees Who Work Remotely

You Can Still Train Employees Who Work Remotely

You no longer have to bypass good quality staff training because your employees are working from home. The pandemic has thrown almost everything we know on its head. The idea of office culture has shifted completely in the last two years. We no longer think of the...
Interview Techniques and Tips

Interview Techniques and Tips

Going for an interview can be really nerve-wrecking, especially if you don’t have much experience of being interviewed, or haven’t ever been interviewed before. However, you don’t need to worry, because interviewing is a skill you can master.  Follow these techniques...

Changes to Close Protection Training Coming in 2024

The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has extended the introduction of the updated close protection qualification to 01 April 2022. SIA are working with a close protection expert working group, awarding organisations and physical intervention programme providers to...

Advantages and disadvantages of online learning in UK

The Internet is full of opportunities for self-teaching and the ability to learn about almost any topic, industry, or skill without ever having to leave the sofa. But online learning isn’t for everyone and presents just as many disadvantages as it does advantages. In...

Changes to the training you need for an SIA licence

Security Industry Authority (SIA) have announced that there will be further changes to the training you will need to take before you can get a front line SIA licence. In addition to the changes in April 2021, there will be more changes in October 2021 and April 2022:...

Changes to the training needed for an SIA Licence

On 1 April 2021, the SIA will introduce updated qualifications for all sectors except Close Protection. From 1 April 2021, you must have a first aid qualification before you can apply for a Door Supervisor or Security Guard licence. On 1 October 2021, the SIA will...

Pandemic Update

We are pleased to announce that all classroom training is running as scheduled. We will be providing you with PPE throughout the course and ensuring you are kept safe following government guidelines. All candidates will have their temperature checked before they start...

How to Dress for a Job Interview

While a first impression is often formed in seconds, it can last for an eternity. Although this may sound a little profound, it certainly has merit an ever-diversifying and competitive marketplace. After all, studies have shown that it takes approximately 7 seconds...

How to make your CV stand out

Are you thinking about applying for a new job? Maybe you should rethink your CV game. Statistics show that on average recruiters spend 6 seconds scanning through a CV. Doesn’t sound like much, right? So you have got to make those seconds count! Every recruiter has a...

Is technology taking over our jobs?

Experts believe that the rise of robots in the workplace will account for unemployment rates greater than 50% within the next 30 years. Some are calling it humanity’s ‘biggest challenge ever’ with Professor Moshe Vardi of Rice University claiming that “we are...

What it takes to be a security guard in today’s society

Security has never been an easy industry. By its very nature, it mixes danger with responsibility and the ability to keep one’s composure when things get fractious. As a result, it requires a very specific set of skills from anyone wishing to become a security guard....

How to banish job interview nerves

Sweaty palms, jiggling legs, concerns about forgetting past qualifications and making a fool of yourself; the moments before a job interview can be tense and incredibly nerve-wracking. We’ve all been there. In reality, there is no magical formula for banishing job...

How to search for a job online

Job searching is changing – rapidly. Once a frustrating trawl through the vacancy pages of the local newspaper, hunting for a new career is now a process which can be conducted entirely online. Internet job boards have evolved, as have the techniques required to...

Christmas Temporary Jobs

For many reasons, Christmas does live up to its billing as the “most wonderful time of the year”. Families all coming together, gifts, meals and other festivities take over the deeper into December we get. But for others, it can be a daunting time of year thanks to...

University courses to aid your security career

Training 4 Employment can train you to be a security professional. If you take one look at our courses, you’ll see the wide range of careers we can put you on the path towards. You’ll be fully accredited and ready to jump into the big world of the security sector by...

Basic CV building blocks

Your CV can hold a lot of weight. For just a piece of paper, it can make the difference between landing an interview or not. A good one can get you considered for jobs way beyond your experience. Bad ones can slam hundreds of doors in your face without you knowing....

Security organisations in the UK

If you have ever tried to apply for a license, get a job, or do almost anything than can be regulated by a governing body (or 10), you’ll be aware of organisations that monitor other organisations. Drivers who want their driving licenses have to deal with the DVLA....

When to apply for a job

There are many hurdles you have to leap over during the course of landing a job. Some you have complete control over – obtaining the right skills, applying for a wide range of jobs, and getting your interview technique down. Others are completely out of your...

14 reasons why you failed your interview

No one likes interviews. You are putting yourself on show for a highly critical audience. The person interviewing you needs to know that you can add value to their business, and if you deserved to be given any of their money. That is the very definition of a “tough...

Security Guard Essentials

As with everything, the role of “security guard” is becoming more vague, as more and more nuances are added to the classic security guard cliché. The “Man with torch” picture is kind of a thing of the past. Now, there are hundreds of variations on the job. The...