In the march starts pilot training Bygglab on Yrkesplugget in Bromma, and now in the week, Monday 4 February 16-19, held a meeting on Yrkespluggets Byggterapiverkstad where you will get to know more, talk to the companies and sign up.

the Need for the provision of skills, in the construction sector is big in the Stockholm area. Many training places are empty. Although housing construction slowed, the sector requires employing around 40,000 people in the next ten years. At the same time unions and employers agree that the diversity and the proportion of women on construction sites needs to increase.

Via Bygglab the participants will after 13 months out as woodworkers, concrete workers, or construction workers. And to arouse the curiosity and desire of potential participants, it has been held a number of byggterapisessioner of Yrkesplugget.

smell the sawdust. Bent rebar is located on the tables, as well as the rough wood and vasseggade planes. Here is a table for measuring and sawing wood, and the stalls of the layer.

By highlighting the work’s contemplative benefits hope the organizers attract new aspirants.

“It gives a certain tranquility in the soul to be with and create something that lasts,” says Zandra Lövgren, project manager for Sweden is based, who runs Byggterapi and Bygglab.

” We’re trying to bring out the emotional and sensual connection to the material. It has created a curiosity. We have had girls here from all over the world of work, many from retail, healthcare, and even advertising and the media.

is to receive applicants who traditionally would not have sought out the industry.

” We let them come and test the such as to mold, slice, bend rebar and lay the pavers.

Both men and women are welcome, stresses Zandra Lövgren. Even if the basic idea is to attract just more women. And even those a little older.

” We should be able to karriärväxla even in the midst of life, but they do not like 40 plus and maybe the breadwinner in the classroom with student loans if you are not sure that this is what you want, and that there are jobs on the other side.

the Goal is a course with 20 participants.

been several times on the Byggterapi. She has worked 25 years as a hairdresser. But the revenue has been poor. And basically, she has always had an attraction to build. So when the daughter was big enough, she decided this year to break up and do something else. Now she is here to retrieve the candle holder for tea lights she breathed, and to discuss possible study finance.

It has been nice to see that the construction ”is not just about carrying heavy bags,” she says.

” I have been interested in this since I was a kid, but have never found any training that worked for me. I’m 46 years old today. Then it is not really so that you as well as going in and saying ”hello, hello” in school, ” she says.

” When I was young there were so very few girls who went to the construction at the high school, no one pushed a few girls in that direction. So I became a barber like my dad instead. But to come here and try it on together with someone who can and know, then it gets exciting.

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