From training in the hospitality industry to business development courses for prisoners: Over the past 5 years BTEC has been providing these opportunities and much more. Today at the ITVET, the BTEC team celebrated their 5-year anniversary and spoke on their accomplishments and on the road ahead.
Christine Smith, Manager, BTEC
"BTEC celebrates it's 5th anniversary, well actually on October 6th, we are having this celebration today. 5 years ago we started with our first training program which was for the BPO industry, to date we have moved into the hospitality industry doing front desk, wait staff, housekeeping, bartending, we have also moved into the home health industry giving care givers training. Apart from those trainings we do professional development workshops for company's, one of our main partners is Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry and we do training for their membership, our key trainings are customer service excellence, we do time management, effective communications, professional etiquette."
"Right now the organization is going through it's 5 year strategic plan and we are plotting out the next 5 years and the goals we will be looking at. We will definitely continue to focus on job preparedness, moving into new industries as well as keeping our stables but all of what we do is to ensure that persons are able to access the employment that is within our country as well as to ensure that they remain employable."
Hon. Tracy Taegar-Panton, Minster of Investment, Trade and Commerce
"Over 75 percent of the people who have gone through BTEC training course has found a way to have meaningful employment either with an organization or being able to start some small business of their own."
"We have done a lot, we have had great achievements, we have surmounted some serious challenges but we are not at all satisfied with where we have come, we know there is a lot of work in this country that needs to be done."
Over the last 5 years, 1,700 persons have passed through BTEC's job preparedness training of which 75 percent are employed and 1,300 have completed BTEC's professional development training.
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