The government-funded Career Transition Partnership (CTP) which works to get ex-armed forces personnel into work reports it is being approached by over 80 new companies a month.

A CTP spokesperson tells Recruiter that thanks to public funding the organisation’s service “comes at no cost to employer organisations”.

The spokesperson continues: “Despite the economic downturn the interest in recruiting from the armed forces has not declined, with new sectors such as renewable energy showing great interest”

Defence, engineering, security, management, transport and logistics and telecommunications were also named as sectors with particularly strong uptake of service leaders.

The CTP spokesperson tells Recruiter: “The decline in the public sector and in particular limited recruitment in the Police and Fire Services has resulted in service leavers moving away from this as a natural career path to follow.”

Over 20,000 personnel leave the forces each year, with CTP’s Rightjob website currently having 4,000 vacancies.

The CTP works with servicemen and women from as early as two years before they leave the forces to improve their jobhunting skills.