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21 day jobs challenge
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 |
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Tags: CV, jobs, student room, top tips, Young People
With GCSEs and A-Level results approaching, a new jobs challenge is launching
to help young people compete in the jobs market.
Last summer, college and university leavers swelled the numbers on Jobseekers Allowance, as over 560,000 18-24 year olds signed on. This year the jobs market remains competitive but young jobseekers can [...]
Listen up! 11-25 year olds have their say
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 |
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Tags: career choices, employment, listen up, politics, report, survey, Young People
Youth Charity, the Jack Petchey Foundation, has recently published Listen Up!
The Listen Up survey report brings together the views of over 6000 11-25 year olds, gathered through focus groups in schools and youth projects across the country.
Some report highlights are:
The issues most important to young people were revealed as:
reducing crime (29%)
employment opportunities (25%)
local community (22%)
environment [...]
Local government challenge winner announced
Friday, July 9th, 2010 |
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MERTON COUNCIL WORKER CROWNED WINNER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHALLENGE
Rachel Allen, Business Improvement Officer at the London Borough of Merton was last night crowned the first ever winner of the national Local Government Challenge, by journalist and presenter, Jeremy Vine.
The LG challenge sponsored by Liberata, began back in January with ten council employees taking on a [...]
Heritage traineeship vacancies
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 |
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Tags: development control, environment, environmental conservation, heritage, HET scheme, placement, Planning, regeneration, traineeship
HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT TRAINEESHIP SCHEME (2010)
TWO YEAR WORK PLACEMENT
The English Heritage Historic Environment Traineeship (HET) Scheme is a highly sought after initiative which offers up to ten two-year professional work placements within the planning and development teams. Trainee Historic Environment Managers will be based in regional offices across the country and will gain work experience [...]
Focus on graduate jobs
The recent Focus on graduate jobs survey conducted by YouGov for the Chartered
Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that, of the 700 graduates
in employment asked, nearly 60 per cent
were not currently working in an occupation related to their degree.
Survey highlights:
58 per cent of respondents said they were unable to find work in their chosen [...]
Chief Executive mucks in!
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 |
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Tags: apprentice, apprenticeship, chief executive
Broadland District Council Chief Executive Colin Bland went “back to the shop floor”
on Thursday 4 February to highlight his council’s support for Apprenticeship Week 2010. He joined Stacey Edwards at Juby’s Farm, a local livery yard, to experience some of the work involved in her Equine Apprenticeship.
Shadowing Stacey not only meant learning about her work [...]
Step up to social work
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 |
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Tags: career change, Social Work, training
Social work is a rewarding career that really makes a difference.
If you’re looking for a career change and have the skills and determination to contribute to changing the future, the Step Up to Social Work programme could be for you.
Step Up to social work
Step Up to social work is an employment-based training programme that awards [...]
Graduate blog – 3 months in…
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |
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Local government may have a reputation of red tape, men in grey suits and a life of being stuck behind a desk but I’ve found it to be a stimulating, varied and, whisper it quietly, exciting environment. I have also met many friendly and inspirational characters who will go out of their way to help [...]
Social worker campaign wins award
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 |
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Tags: campaign, Social Work, social worker
Real-life social workers have been the inspiration for a thought-provoking
recruitment campaign which scooped a top advertising award.
More than 45,000 people have registered their interest in becoming a social worker, since the launch of the Children’s Workforce Development Council’s Be the Difference recruitment campaign launched in September 2009.
The Be the Difference campaign won the copywriting prize [...]
PM supports Apprenticeship Week
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 |
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Tags: apprentice, apprenticeships, prime minister
The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has given his support to Apprenticeship Week.
He believes they are great way for young people to learn a new skill and to show employers what they can do.
The number of people starting Apprenticeships has risen from fewer than 70,000 in 1997, to nearly a quarter of a million now. [...]
Job search – UK gets busy
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 |
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According to an analysis of trends carried out over five years by jobs website myjobgroup.co.uk, Tuesday 12 January is officially the busiest day of the year for people searching for jobs!
Traditionally, the first Tuesday back after the new year is the busiest day for people seeking new jobs – usually as a result of fulfilling [...]
Graduate perceptions of local government
Monday, January 11th, 2010 |
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Tags: careers, Graduate, jobs, perceptions, reputation, stereotypes, views
Graduates Yorkshire is social enterprise that works with local government on talent and workforce development. The slideshow below reveals the outcome of some research into graduate perceptions of working in local government in the Yorkshire area.
Graduates In Yorkshire
View more presentations from Dominic Campbell.
Are these views shared by others around the country? We’d like to [...]
New survey: tough time for UK graduates
The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) has recently launched the first ever report on the international graduate recruitment market.
The INGRADA (International Network of Graduate Recruitment and Development Associations) Global Graduate Survey is based on the aggregated results of surveys and market knowledge from six countries covering graduate starting salaries, offer acceptance rates, vacancy and application [...]
The day after tomorrow!
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 |
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Tags: Education, Graduate, Maintenance, Student
DirectGov has launched a new initiative for students. With exam results looming, the new government scheme, the ‘What’s next?’ programme, is the perfect tool to help students in the direction they want to go after education. This website is ideal for students who have left school or college or have even graduated from university.
The What’s [...]
Unlocking young people’s talent
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 |
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The Government has announced 15 projects for the Inspiring Communities initiative across the country that will share a £10 million pot of funding to unlock the talents of young people.
The Inspiring Communities initiative is about getting people in communities working together to boost the aspirations and achievements of their young people. Projects include:
Community gardening, [...]
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