At TRS Training, we never encourage people to undertake courses unless it helps them to progress in their job and fits in to their career plan. This is our company philosophy, supported by processes that ensure with everyone who enrols on one of our courses follows our simple guiding principle: Correct Course Correct Career. It’s not a slogan but a commitment to anyone doing a course with us and to employers who use our staff development services. It’s also a promise to the logistics industry.
What does Correct Course Correct Career really mean?
Choosing the right training programme isn’t just about funding eligibility or availability, it’s about fit. At TRS, that means:
- Matching the individual’s career goals to the right apprenticeship standard or other course
- Ensuring the qualification aligns with genuine job roles in logistics and transport
- Supporting both new entrants and existing staff to progress with purpose
- Delivering structured, work-based learning that leads to real competence and boosts career potential
Whether it’s an urban driver apprenticeship leading to an HGV Cat C/C1 licence, or an operational leadership programme designed to strengthen management capability, the focus is always the same: the course must make sense for the career. So that means no mis-selling, no box-ticking and no qualifications that sit unused.
What it means for employers
For employers, the principle matters just as much. Any training undertaken by staff should strengthen your business as well as develop individuals. Correct Course Correct Career means:
- Apprenticeships and other courses aligned to operational needs
- Training that improves performance, compliance and productivity
- Staff who understand not just how to do the job but why it matters
- A long-term skills pipeline for your business
- Happy, fulfilled staff who feel their employer is invested in their future
- Low staff turnover
The measure of success is simple. Is your staff member making the best of themselves? Are they making a valued contribution in the business? Are they keen to progress in the organisation?What we do at TRS ensures that you can answer yes to those questions.
Why this principle matters in logistics
The logistics industry is evolving. Compliance standards are tightening. Customer expectations are rising. Technology is changing the way operations run. Training must keep pace. Putting someone on the wrong course wastes time, funding and potential. Putting them on the right one builds careers that contribute and strengthen the sector as a whole, ensuring that businesses and the logistics industry have the skills to succeed.
A simple promise delivered properly
Our Correct Course Correct Career principle is about integrity. In practice here’s what it looks like:
- Thorough IAG interviews
- asking the right questions before enrolment
- ensuring someone’s experience, skills and career goals are thoroughly explored
- understanding exactly what an employer expects their employee on training to achieve
- being honest if a programme isn’t suitable
- aligning recommendations with real job roles in transport and logistics
It’s straightforward but it requires discipline and taking the whole business of training very seriously. These are decisions that shape people’s lives and futures.
If you are an individual looking to start or progress your career in logistics, the starting point is the same: Let’s make sure you are on the correct course so you can build the correct career, the career you want.
The person behind Correct Course Correct Career
At TRS, Correct Course Correct Career works because we take the time to check it properly. That starts with Ruth Fraser, our Apprenticeship Onboarding Officer.
Before any learner is enrolled, Ruth holds a detailed Information, Advice and Guidance session. She spends around an hour understanding their previous qualifications, work experience, current role and long-term ambitions. She explores why they’ve chosen the apprenticeship or other course, and what they expect it to do for their future, making sure the programme genuinely fits both their current position and their career goals.
Most individuals are on the right path. But sometimes Ruth identifies that something doesn’t quite line up. It may be that the apprenticeship level is too low, that the programme doesn’t fully match their job role, or that their expectations don’t reflect what the course is designed to deliver. When that happens, she addresses it right at the start, recommending a more suitable option so everyone’s time, effort and public funding are used wisely.
We also recognise that careers don’t stand still. That’s why, once Ruth has ensured the starting point is right, the TRS skills coaches take over. Throughout the apprenticeship, and again at the end, they regularly check in with learners to make sure their direction of travel is still on track for the career they want.
