Sea Firm Is Catch Of The Day As It Creates 13 Posts
A Co Down seafood company is creating 13 jobs thanks to new business secured in France. Kilhorne Bay Seafoods in Annalong will be esxporting its new Queen Scallops product thanks to help from Invest Northern Ireland. The company has also invested over £450,000 in state-of-the-art production equipment, which has been supported by the European Fisheries...
Developing Youth Skills Vital For A Better Future
Skills and training support, individually tailored for young people, has the greatest impact on the lives of the most vulnerable, according to Koulla Yiasouma, director at Include Youth. Speaking at her organisation’s recent conference she said: “We know from our own experience of working with vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, through good and bad economic...
Travel Sector Flying High With Jobs Boost
Northern Ireland’s travel sector is creating up to 10 new jobs thanks to business secured by local firm Selective Travel. As part of a major new contract with Queen’s University Belfast, Selective Travel has brought together 13 airlines as well as hoteliers and car hire firms in a new partnership to exclusively meet the university’s...
NI’s Leading Jobsite Goes Mobile
NORTHERN Ireland’s job-seekers now have a dedicated new mobile website to help them find recruitment posts while they’re on the move. The nijobfinder website has extended its repertoire by optimising its website for mobile devices. The www.nijobfinder.co.uk site is now the only job portal in Northern Ireland to offer jobs via print, online, iphone app...
Sweet success for chocolate firm
Fosters Chocolates in Craigavon have created a number of new temporary jobs to fulfil an order from Sainsbury’s for its 350 UK-wide stores. With its unique longer lasting recipe the Fosters toffee apple is being stocked by the national chain as part of its Halloween range. Fosters team has been working around the clock to...
Employment Briefs
EMPLOYMENT BRIEFS THE establishment of the Education Skills Authority will boost support for teacher training, according to Education Minister John O’Dowd. Speaking at the NI British Psychological Society’s (NIBPS) annual public lecture recently he said the streamlining of administration through ESA would allow funds to be diverted to frontline services. “Whilst we have much to...
Ministers aiming for more Health jobs
Job creation is at the heart of a new undertaking by Northern Ireland’s Ministers for Health and Enterprise. Under the radical change in health service delivery within the new Transforming Your Care agenda a ‘task and finish’ group will be established to promote economic growth and employment in the health and social care sector here....
Future business leaders log on for new course
Future business leaders will soon be using the latest technologies to help progress up the corporate ladder with a new online course aimed at giving them the skills to take on a managerial role within their organisation. The new innovative online Foundation Degree in Leadership and Management has been launched at South Eastern Regional...
UU Nurses are named among best in UK
The University of Ulster’s School of Nursing is one of the top performers in the UK, according to the professions regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The NMC Quality Assurance Monitoring results for 2011-2012 show that Ulster’s School of Nursing was one of only two approved education institutions (AEIs) to get ‘outstanding’ for...
QUB seeking staff for new business unit
A pioneering business project at Queen’s University is seeking to fill eight different positions. The recruitment drive follows the £13.9 million opening of the newly-refurbished Riddel Hall as a cutting edge business and management centre. The state-of-the-art facility includes a leading Management School, a Graduate School and a Leadership Institute to meet the needs of...