Caterpillar’s Skills Scheme To Put In Place 100 New Jobs
INVESTMENT in manufacturing is set to create 100 new positions in Northern Ireland, according to a leading engineering firm. Caterpillar Northern Ireland operations director Robert Kennedy was speaking during a recent visit to the company’s Larne plant by Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry. The minister was there to see how his department’s investment of...
Scheme Aiming To Keep The Customers Satisfied
SKILLS body People 1st, in partnership with the National Skills Academy for Retail, has launched a campaign to improve the standard of customer service across Northern Ireland’s retail sector. The WorldHost customer service programme, which has already trained over 11,000 people across Northern Ireland’s tourism sector, is now being made available to businesses in the...
First Heritage Wood Apprenticeship Launched
CITB-ConstructionSkills NI is to deliver the first ‘heritage wood occupations’ apprenticeship of its kind in Northern Ireland ACITB-ConstructionSkills NI is to deliver the first ‘heritage wood occupations’ apprenticeship of its kind in Northern Ireland. The organisation secured £379,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) under its Skills for the Future towards the Heritage Specialist Apprenticeship...
Met Launches Drive for 19 New Lecturers
BELFAST Metropolitan College has embarked on a major new recruitment drive to employ full and part-time lecturing staff in a range of specialisms. The positions, advertised in today’s Nijobfinder, include a full-time, permanent lecturer in health and social care and a full-time, temporary lecturer in events management with travel and tourism. The college is also...
R&D New Co-Chair
DR Rosemary Hamilton is the new Northern Ireland co-chair to the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Steering Group. The announcement follows a recent visit to Dublin and Belfast by the US co-chair to the Steering Group, DR Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for the United States Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Dr...
£30k Harbour Investment to Boost Training
BELFAST Harbour has announced a £30,000 investment in a new training initiative to boost young people’s employment prospects. Launched in conjunction with Belfast Metropolitan College, The Commissioners’ Programme will create at least 30 new apprenticeship and other training positions in a range of sectors within the Harbour Estate over the next three years. The harbour...
Scheme Hails Diversity In The Workplace
THE Rainbow Project has launched a workplace first with a new diversity and inclusion employment programme, Diversity Champions NI. This is the first and only programme to be introduced for the public and private sector across Northern Ireland and will allow organisations to be recognised as having robust equality and diversity policies and practices. This...
Vital Donation Highlights The Importance Of Health & Safety In The Workplace
VickerStock, Northern Ireland’s specialist technical engineering recruitment agency, in partnership with Heartsine Technologies, a leading manufacturer of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) based in Belfast, today donated an AED to Mossley Primary School with one key message: ‘Empowering Workplaces to Save Lives.’ According to The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health more than half of UK businesses...
IT Firm Leads Way As Great Place To Work
A BELFAST-based IT company has been ranked one of the top companies to work for in the UK. Novosco, an IT infrastructure expert, was the highest placed Northern Ireland firm to feature in the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Small Companies to Work For’. The company, which employs 90 staff, was one of only two Northern...
Firms to Mentor
INDUSTRY specialists from some of Northern Ireland’s top engineering companies have signed up to the Career Academy at Northern Regional College to mentor students. They have been assigned a student to mentor over the next two years to provide guidance on career paths and advise on aspects of their current Level 3 Engineering and future...