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Empowering Sea Cadets for Future Careers: A New Initiative

Posted October 8, 2024

In 2023, the Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) launched its Future Ready Strategic Plan with a clear vision: to empower Sea Cadets by giving them a user-friendly way to identify their unique skills, explore potential career paths both within and beyond the maritime industry, highlight areas where additional training can enhance their employability and to foster a sense of empowerment and confidence in navigating future career opportunities.

Collaboration and Development

To bring this vision to life, Sanderson Government & Defence are joining forces with MSSC and The British Army’s Specialist Group Information Services (SGIS) to develop a new Artificial Intelligence based application that’s tailored specifically for over 15,000 active cadets and adult volunteers.

The Application will be hosted on the Cadet Portal and will support the development of employability skills, provide signposting to recruitment opportunities as well as offer insights into job roles to enable cadets to better focus their learning and training.

To support this development Sanderson have been actively engaging with the Cadets to support their funding development and are assisting with powering the data and opportunities the cadets and adult volunteers have visibility to in order to help the cadets make informed decisions about career options going forward. These will include things like cover letter templates, interview technique preparation tools and helpful case studies.

G&D team members Lewis Snell and Graham Complin are excited to be working on this project.

Commenting on our involvement, Sanderson G&D Managing Director Nick Walrond said:

This is a mission that is extremely important to our Government & Defence team. Having recently been awarded a Gold Armed Forces Covenant Award in the Employers Recognition Scheme Award for 2024 (which you can read more about here), we have pledged to continually demonstrate our unwavering support of the armed forces community and ensure that any personnel in this industry, be it serving veterans, cadets just starting out on their journey or volunteers, feel empowered in their career aspirations.”


Benefits for Cadets and Employers

This initiative will enhance the career readiness of Sea Cadets, offering them pathways to work experience or employment. It also provides future employers a clear view of the skills and training the cadets receive, helping to bridge the gap between training and employment.

For Sanderson and our position as a specialist talent and consulting organisation for the defence sector, we are proud to be involved with this initiative as we recognise the exceptional skills, dedication, and leadership that Armed Forces personnel can bring to the workplace and supporting this community is our continued commitment.


Next Steps

Our Government & Defence team will be continuing to work alongside MSSC and SGIS as we work together to help build this Application. Once completed, we are excited to get stuck into the population of the portal to ensure it is full to the brim with useful information.

We look forward to working together and sharing our progress on this exciting initiative as the Application progresses!

If you have any questions regarding this, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Lewis Snell.

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