City for working and learning

Employability and Skills - Our vision

We help drive Belfast’s economic growth by supporting residents, employers and organisations to strive for innovation and excellence and creating pathways to growth and employment.

We focus on:

• developing strategic growth areas,
• driving learning and educational attainment, and
• designing and delivering programmes to support employability.

We’re keen to work with businesses and organisations to help them:

• recruit employees,
• explore work placement opportunities, and
• develop their workforce.

We want to work with and learn from organisations that are supporting residents to:

• access training
• develop their skills and confidence
• find employment

If you're a Belfast-based employer and would like to benefit from our employability programmes, register your interest.

Register as an employer with the Employability and Skills Programme

Belfast is a city of Working and Learning, and you can find out more about the key areas of work that support employability and skills development:

• Belfast Labour Market Partnership
• Employability and Skills Support for contractors, developers and investors
• Gateway to Choices
• Digital Badges
• Training and Support to get people into Employment, and support those in Employment

Support your employees to develop their careers

We can work with employers to deliver a support programme which will give employees the training and support they need to achieve qualifications to progress their careers.