Skills accounts

Teenagers looking for work to be given £7,000 to pay for training


Job-hunting teenagers will be £7,000 in vouchers to pay for training.

From 2010, eighteen-year-olds will be entitled to a Skills Account. The scheme will be extended to 19 to 25-year-olds, affording young people without A-levels the chance to return to college.



What do you think? Send us your views

Boorman: Facebook passwords at interview fears a ‘storm in a teacup’

In the wake of concerns about employers asking job applicants for Facebook passwords at interview, social media guru and founder of #Tru events, Bill Boorman, tells Recruiter that such cases are still rare.

27 March 2012

headline 1

In March last year a major extension of the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) code of conduct came into force.

27 March 2012

Finnish cloud firm Hammerkit opens office and creates jobs in Liverpool_2

Finnish cloud firm Hammerkit opens office and creates jobs in Liverpool
20 January 2012

Independent help with bright ideas_2

With expansion a top priority, e2v needed to standardise its recruitment processes and turned to RPO experts Independent

25 January 2012
Top