A Brand New Career Up For Grabs
London (UK)
Remote Employment News Release
A national search is on to find the UK’s most deserving individual who can show how studying new skills could change their life. They might have overcome challenges to advance their career, they might be out to gain new career prospects and self-enlightenment or could simply have always dreamed of studying a particular course and for some reason was never able to.
With this in mind, The Remote Worker Awards and The Open University invite the British workforce to enter The Open University Skills Award to win a brand new career!
The Open University Skills Award is one of the highlights of The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business, which aims to raise awareness for remote and home working as an alternative solution to redundancy and the traditional nine to five office routine.
The Remote Worker Awards has been organised by Remote Employment, a job site specialising in flexible, remote and home working, offers nine categories. Award Winners will walk away with a prestigious trophy and will enjoy up to £50k in prizes, including a Penthouse Garden Office worth £10k, a Home Based Franchise worth £15k, interior design, business starter kits, a mobile laptop and a fabulous luxury weekend at a von Essen Hotel. And a brand new career!
Improving skills is an ideal way to increase job security in these uncertain employment times so The Open University Skills Award is a great way to receive a brand new career. Anyone looking to re-train or re-skill following redundancy will be able to ease their way back into work with this exciting award.
The Open University is giving one deserving winner a £2000 first prize and two £500 runners up prizes, all of which can be used by students to develop themselves in their existing role, or with a complete change of career in mind.
As technology has advanced the workplace revolution with more and more people being able to work remotely or work from home, so too has technology played a large role in online learning, a distinctive competency of The Open University.
This quickly became evident to Paige Bramley, a project development manager for the Derwent Community Team, which develops community regeneration schemes in Derbyshire.
Paige took CPLD’s (Centre for Professional Learning and Development) ‘Managing Performance through People’ course and said the study had changed her whole way of thinking. “It was excellent for so many reasons,” she said. “It developed me both as a person and as an employee, yet it also taught me a wealth of techniques and processes to help me in my job. Best of all, I was able to bring what I’d learned into the office and apply it in my job.”
Caroline Dickens, the Group Programme Communications Manager of B2B & People at Work, said: “Because Open University courses are intellectually stimulating and require disciplined application, they foster skills critical for business growth. We are very proud to sponsor The Open University Skills Award and are looking forward to receiving an abundance of worthy entrants!”
Recent research carried out by Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London found that keeping the brain active by working or studying later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer's disease. Researchers analysed data from 1,320 dementia patients, including 382 men and found that for the men, continuing to work late in life helped keep the brain sharp enough to delay dementia taking hold. The Open University is very proud to have graduated a student, only last week, who is 97 years old!
For more information or any other enquiry about The Open University Skills Award, call 0844 800 8355 or 020 8133 6329 or browse www.remoteworkerawards.com > The Open University Skills Award.