Pertemps partnership with Council helps 35 ex-offenders into work

Coventry City Council, in partnership with Coventry Probation, has teamed up with Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) to help 35 unemployed ex-offenders back into work.
Wed, 19 Feb 2014
Coventry City Council, in partnership with Coventry Probation, has teamed up with Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) to help 35 unemployed ex-offenders back into work.

They have been working together as part of New Leaf, a jointly funded project between the National Offender Management Service Co-Financing Organisation (NOMS CFO) and the European Social Fund (ESF), which is delivered by PPDG throughout the West Midlands region.

Coventry City Council have been providing forklift truck training at local centres enabling ex-offenders, who have been referred to PPDG, an opportunity to secure a job.

The three-year project started in January 2012 and will run until December 2014.

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