Manchester Digital launches apprenticeship

Digital media association Manchester Digital has launched an apprenticeship scheme.

Sim Trava launches apprenticeship programme

Altrincham-based franchise business Sim Trava, which owns and runs 25 Costa Coffee stores across the North of England, as well as two fast-food Pita Pit outlets, is launching the new apprenticeship programme through its new learning and development arm – the Sim Trava Academy.

Internships can help open doors into work for graduate-level refugees

Offering an internship as a means of getting a “foot in the door” is helping UK employers access talent among graduate-level refugees.

Transitioning from refugee to worker

A not-for-profit social enterprise company is venturing into an area that most employers and recruitment agencies fear to tread. Transitions London, founded in 2010, aims to help arguably the most marginalised group in the UK labour market: refugees. The figures tell their own story, with the unemployment rate for refugees at around 70%, according to a Department of Work and Pensions research paper in 2002, far higher than for the general population.

Headstart App matches up to blue-chip firms

Graduate job matching solution Headstart App is currently being trialled by blue-chip organisations.

Axon Moore appoints three in Leeds

Financial recruiter Axon Moore has appointed three new consultants. Louise Auty will focus on temporary transactional recruitment.

Mehra's enlightened approach to recruiting

The founder of a supply teacher recruitment agency says his sense of disillusionment about the difficulties experienced by “outsiders” in getting into the industry led him to take a more inclusive approach when recruiting staff for his own company.