Recruitment Advice

With the number of unemployed reaching 2.1 million it seems that for many, finding a job is proving difficult. Although a large proportion of industries are struggling because of the recession, it hasn’t massively affected each and every one of them. There are still jobs available, maybe not in the industry you have previously worked in but a change may have to be the next move. This could just be temporary or part time job just to make sure that you can pay the bills, you may even end up enjoying it and wanting to take it up full time!

Make sure that you have a look at the popular employment websites such as Monster and Total Jobs, they have hundreds of job opportunities available in a number of different industries, from jobs for writers to jobs for financial controllers and customer service advisers.

If you are unemployed then try not to worry too much, you just need to make sure that you have a well written CV, submitted on a wide variety of job boards. Make sure that you keep your eyes peeled for jobs being advertised in papers and ask friends and families to let you know if any vacancies come up in their work place.

Tesco one of the UK’s largest supermarket retailers have announced today that they have planned to reserve some of the 11,000 jobs they will recruit for this year for the long term unemployed.

They are going to work alongside the Job Centre and Local Employee Partnership (LEP’s) to help achieve this. Tesco should see success in using this methods as they have already taken on 3,000 long-term unemployed people through these schemes before. They have not confirmed the number roles of roles that will be recruited through this scheme or when they will be recruited.

The supermarket chain is also set to double the number of apprentices it takes on next year to 1,600 places.