Job
Outline - What does a courier do ?Courier
companies offer a desk to desk delivery service, collecting an item from the reception or
post room of one office and delivering it directly to its destination.
You may collect a package from a receptionist on the 10th floor of a
corporate building or from a printer covered in ink holding the first copy of a magazine.
The service you provide will be a person to person, desk to desk service. The deliveries
you make will be signed for on delivery. The items that you as a courier, have to deliver
may be a valuable bankers draft, or a concrete sample for a building site.
You can be certain that if the customer is sending it by hand via a
courier, then it has a high value to them.
The customer will want the job done professionally and promptly, most
of all safely.
The types of business that book a lot of courier work include:-
 | Legal and management firms. |
| Advertising companies. |
| Accountants and design consultants |
| Music, TV and video producers |
| Fashion Houses |
| Newspapers and Magazine publishers |
The minimum charge for one courier delivery may be three to four pounds. A
newspaper company may book three to four hundred jobs a day. Doing work for theses large
corporations, you will need to demonstrate a level of professionalism and confidence,
image becomes very important. The majority of the work you will do will be from 9am to
6pm. These hours may be extended by early booking and late deliveries. Many courier
companies work from 8am to 7pm, sometimes earlier, sometimes later and occasionally
provide 24 hour cover. As a beginner you will be expected to show your commitment. Working
longer hours will gain you more income. Unless you are committed why should any
controller, let alone the company bother with you.
A London courier covers around one hundred miles a day
Delivers ten to twenty separate jobs
Some jobs will be wait and returns or multi deliveries
TrainingTo Become a Courier
You have the power to deliver
The course is free to the signed unemployed A
motorcycle, fuel and insurance is provided free of charge. Cycle courses exist for none
motorcyclists. Each year there are around 500 places on the course. The course starts most
weeks of the year and lasts around four weeks.
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Camelot graduates fly high
Camelot supply trained couriers to London's premier companies, ensuring the earning
potential is there for you as an individual. Our ex candidates have achieved some of the
highest pay within the industry. Following good training it is possible to earn over one
thousand pounds a week. A typical average income when starting out is around £350 per
week. At Camelot you will be given every opportunity to maximise your earning power. Our
course is a practical route to a good high income practical job.
The training course at Camelot will show you everything you require to know to be
successful, all you need is motivation.
Pre-entry requirements for courier training
To provide equality of opportunity to all members of the community pre-entry
requirements are kept to a minimum at Camelot. Each candidate must fit funding criteria
and above all show motivation to the job route we provide. Travel expenses are supported
up to five pounds per day and 10:30am starts facilitate cheap rate travel. This brings
accessibility to candidates across the whole London area.
The course design is of a practical nature delivering key job skills to the front line
of tutor groups. A candidate needs no previous courier experience, simply an enthusiasm to
take part and a motivation to succeed into job.
Candidates who have provisional or full motorcycle licences will follow a motorcycle
stream. Those without are given a pedal cycle option which in over 80% of the cases
results in Camelot providing free support for candidates to achieve their bike CBT
licence.
The demands of the job fall into three main areas:-
| Geographical street knowledge 50% |
| Client/ Courier relations 25% |
| Motorcycle / Cycle 25% |
Being a skilled motorcyclist or cyclist is essential, but does not alone qualify you as
a couirer. You must know your way around. Not getting lost is far more important than
riding quickly. You also to need to cope with many varied and changing demands of the
clients.
Subjects covered
Some of the subjects covered are two way radio practice, including phonetic alphabet,
controller dialect, map skills, basic bike maintenance and route knowledge of London. The
course does not consist of days of classroom work.
Forty individual course starts take place through the year. Courses run concurrently
for twenty weeks. Candidates from New Deal, WBT and the separate strains of cycle, van or
motorcycle progress through the course together. During the course a candidate who
struggles with a subject block will be given the opportunity to refer back to another
course
| Week 1/3 Class based courier skills ( Radio - Client - Map - Bike) |
The short nature of the course leads to high motivation, as the realisation of the
guaranteed job route becomes a reality. A substantial concentration of learning takes
place in the early stages where goals are achieved to progress the candidate towards bike
and job. Whilst the course is short communication with the candidate continues into the
job and beyond. Collection of NVQ work evidence is a good example of this and takes place
over an average of three months.
This is a hands on course for practical people with
demonstrations and guidance from tutors with years of experience.
Special Route Knowledge
We have devised a special route knowledge section to the course each day a tutor will
give you a list of prime courier use companies for you to plan a route to, and then go out
and locate, taking in key roads and landmarks. You will visit advertising companies,
newspapers and TV companies as well as lawyers, accountants, banks and big businesses.
Travelling at 90mph is very slow in the wrong direction!
A STEADY PACE IN THE CORRECT DIRECTION IS THE KEY TO BIG EARNINGS
Safety is an important issue. we want you to get there in one
piece and that's what we will train you to do.
A Unique Qualification
We are the only independent training centre in the UK to offer an OCR-Edexcel NVQ
level II for motorcycle couriers. You will build up a portfolio both on the course and
also whilst working. When awarded the qualification you will have been judged to be a
competent and professional courier. The qualification is recognised by all the leading
courier companies. This will be another boost to your earning potential.
NVQ beyond exit.
A candidate is also strongly encouraged to return to Camelot with ongoing vocational
work proof, which can be assessed to complete their NVQ portfolio. This work data builds
up to show a competent level of work skills which results in an NVQ level 2 certificate.
The typical time scale of a candidate start to certificate is seven months.
From NTO figures an ex Camelot candidate is ten times more likely to achieve their NVQ
than in any other area of the transport industry.
Jobcentreplus candidate follow up also takes place. This includes job outcome data and
satisfaction analysis. A NLTEC analysis three months after candidate’s exit showed
the 85% job outcome level to have been sustained.
‘Three months after leaving only 15% of starts return to
unemployment’
Camelot was involved in the development of the qualification.
Lord Falkland, All party group for motorcycling, awarded the very first NVQ in this
subject to a Camelot candidate in 1994 Since 1994 over a thousand successful
qualifications have been successfully achieved by Camelot Candidates.
Camelot has been innovative in bringing
qualifications to the courier industry. The Transportation stream of the NVQ covers a
vehicle delivery industry of around 400,00 drivers. NTO figures show Camelot have
delivered 1,000 of only 8,000 certificates for this stream of the whole transport industry
covering trucks and deliveries.
Driver Numbers Aprox NVQ’s Take up %
Courier Industry 10,000 1,000 10.00%
Transportation 400,000 7,000 1.75%
Are you ready for a guaranteed
job
with one of London's top courier
companies.
Camelot is not a courier company and is in an unrivalled position as the only
independent provider of this type of training in the UK. Camelot candidates are placed
amongst many different courier companies in a wide geographical spread of London. Such is
the reputation of past candidates to achieve top earning positions within courier
companies and win many industry awards they are now guaranteed jobs by many courier
companies.
Consistently over the last five years more guaranteed jobs have existed than course
places. Camelot has proudly come to make a clear statement.
‘Successful candidates
are guaranteed a job!’
Whilst jobs offered outstrip candidate numbers, numbers of potential candidates are
limited by unemployment registers and issues of interview quality. It is the belief of
Camelot that there is a finite number of potential candidates in the London area and they
have reached it.
This need against supply issue favours the candidates. Camelot has the benefit of
choosing the best possible job locations for individual candidates. Self-policing, the
candidates do ever better in the best positions. More of the best positions become
available for more of the candidates.
Companies within the courier industry vary like any other. They come in all shapes,
sizes and qualities. Camelot goes to all lengths to deal with the best possible quality of
companies at a size and location which best fits the need of the individual candidate.
Whilst biased market issues have existed to charge for what has become a commodity
Camelot has stood solid and continues to provide candidates at no cost. This excludes
bias, potential cheap labour and poor practice.
Call UK 0207-837 9700 for an interview date.
We want to help you.
All you need is to be signed unemployed over 18 and motivated.
We interview in London each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Call us for an informal interview and start on your road to success.
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