World Youth Skills Day 2022

Pest Solutions are delighted to have partnered with Bayer Environmental Science to represent the Pest Control industry on World Youth Skills Day 2022.

*See Pest Solutions World Youth Skills Day 2023 post here:

Since 2014, World Youth Skills Day has been celebrated on the 15th of July each year to highlight the importance of supporting skilled young people in their search for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship.

Here at Pest Solutions, we are proud to support our young people and graduate pest control technicians all year round but are delighted to work with Bayer to use this opportunity to attract fresh blood into this thriving and ever-changing industry.

I believe that it is our commitment to youth that has allowed us to grow so significantly over the past few years.

The enthusiasm, innovation, and expertise of our staff, new and old, has been reflected in the success of our pest management services and the satisfaction of our customers.

There are so many talented people just waiting to get their chance, and we want to be the business that give them it.

Several of our most successful recent additions have joined us via our graduate scheme and through the Kickstart scheme, a Government funded initiative that supports employers in giving jobs to 16-24 year olds on Universal Credit.

Pest Management: A Career Like No Other

Pest management is an incredibly diverse and rewarding career path, with more opportunities to learn and progress than in almost any other industry.

As a pest control technician, you won’t ever find yourself stuck behind a desk for days on end, instead, you’ll be right at the heart of the action, using your investigative skills to uncover the root cause of people’s pest problems and

Pest infestations are incredibly distressing to live with and there is little more rewarding than being able to free customers from their living nightmare.

Each and every day will be a new challenge and a chance to learn something new.

The pest industry never stands still and there are constantly new innovations, products, and techniques being developed.

You’ll never know when a new smart gadget could help you solve a problem.

We need young innovative thinkers in the field to match those in the workshop and this is why it is so important to us to get more young people into the industry.

If you have a thirst for adventure, a background in the sciences, great communication skills, and a can-do attitude, the door is always open here at Pest Solutions.

World Youth Skills Day 2022 – Award Winning Young Pest Controllers

Our team here at Pest Solutions is the perfect blend of youth and experience and each member of our service works hard to look after each and every one of our valued customers.

We believe that by investing in our young people we can help them to fulfil their incredible potential and so far, we’ve been proven absolutely right.

This year alone we have been delighted to see the success of many of our technicians who came to us through our graduate scheme.

Natasha Mackay, Gemma Sutherland, and William Trivet, all graduate scheme success stories, have all recently successfully acquired their Level 3 Certificated Advanced Technician awards from the BPCA, demonstrating their expertise and identification skills.

We were also extremely proud to see Gemma crowned as “Young Pest Controller of the Year” at the 2022 National Pest Awards, with Chloe Smith, another of our top graduate service technicians, finishing in the top 3.

The success of Gemma and Chloe is the latest in Pest Solutions ever increasing affiliation with this award, with another of our young pest controllers, Gabrielle Hogg, winning the award in 2021.

These awards are not only a well deserved recognition for the fantastic work that our young technicians do every single day in the field, but also a reflection that the ethos of investing in young talent that we have built our company on.

World Youth Skills Day 2022 – Thanks To Bayer For Supporting Young Pest Controllers

Here at Pest Solutions, we are incredibly grateful to the fantastic support of the team at Bayer Environmental Science UK for their commitment to the development of young pest professionals.

Bayer are not only helping drive the future of the pest control industry by producing innovative products of the highest quality that go straight into the toolkit of professional pest controllers, but also by investing in attracting and developing impressive young people to the industry.

Advancement in pest control technologies, like in almost every other industry, has been astronomical in recent years and great products need great people to get the best out of them.

It is people who will ensure a successful future for the essential pest control industry and Bayer are fully committed to helping us to ensure the next generation is more successful than ever before.

Not only have Bayer partnered with us here at Pest Solutions for both Youth Skills Day 2022 and International Women’s Day 2022, but they also provide ongoing sponsorship of the “Young Pest Controller of The Year” award in which we have had so much success in recent years.

Bayer have gone above and beyond with their sponsorship of this award and we are incredibly grateful to Tim and the whole Bayer team for the £500 support that they provided towards the ongoing training of the 3 finalists from this year’s award.

Incentives like these are a great way to grow the awards programme and encourage more young people to get involved.

Tim Peeling, Head of Marketing UK & Ireland at Bayer said: “Bayer are extremely happy to sponsor the “Young Pest Controller of the Year”, a partnership that fits so well with the ethos of our company. It’s important for us that we take the sponsorship further, it’s not just one night for us. We have stayed in contact with the previous finalists and want create a community and further support them as they progress in their career.

As Envu (Bayer Environmental Science UK will soon rebrand as Envu) we will continue with the sponsorship and industry support, it’s a great opportunity for us to work with our end users.”

World Youth Skills Day 2022 – Are You Considering A Pest Control Career?

If you are a recent science graduate and are looking for a job in an exciting and fast moving industry where no two days are the same, why not consider a role in pest control?

At Pest Solutions our goal is to provide our customers with the best possible solutions to their pest problems and to do that we need great people in our team.

Our training and mentorship programmes are second to none, and you will have the opportunity to acquire qualifications and skills that you can use throughout your career in the pest control industry.

We select our candidates based on their skills, attitude, and potential, regardless of age, and work extremely hard to make sure that pest control, at least at our company, is a career for anyone who is passionate for success.

We have grown enormously over the past few years, allowing us to invest in more young people than ever before, and are regularly looking for new recruits across the whole of Scotland and in the North of England.

It is not just pest technicians that we are looking for either, and there are plenty of opportunities for young people to thrive in marketing, sales, accounts, and other support roles.

Apply today by sending your CV to chris@pestsolutions.co.uk. Even if we do not have any suitable positions available at this moment in time, we have many great connects within the industry and would be happy to forward your information to another BPCA Member company that shares our passion for investing in youth.