Platinum Goes International
Successful recruitment agency, Platinum Recruitment, based in Downpatrick Co Down, has been selected by Healthcare agencies in New Zealand to recruit medical professionals to live the dream and work abroad in New Zealand. Celebrating their 10th anniversary in the supply of temporary and permanent staff across Northern Ireland, Platinum Recruitment is now launching their...
Could You Be ‘Apprentice of the Year?’
ENTRY is now open for this year’s Apprentice of the Year competition. These awards are designed to recognise people involved in apprenticeship training in Northern Ireland, including employers, training suppliers and the apprentices themselves. Alongside the existing Apprentice of the Year Award and the Innovation in Partnership Award for Employers and Training Suppliers an additional...
Rosemary Lauded
OFFICE administrator, Rosemary Watson from Bangor, was named as the winner at the second Heart of Peninsula Care Awards. Peninsula Care Services was established seven years ago and currently employs 180 staff. These annual awards, the brainchild of MD Jonny Cook, acknowledge and reward the domiciliary care, nursing and recruitment company’s staff and clients. Commenting...
Getting Creatative
ORGANISATIONS and individuals that help support and mentor young people into careers in the creative industries were recently honoured at the first Northern Ireland Creative & Cultural Skills Awards. The event, held at Belfast Metropolitan College’s Titanic Campus, celebrated those who have given young talent their first big break through training and in building confidence....
Murdock Expands
NEWRY-based Murdock Builder’s Merchants has further expanded its network with the opening of a second branch in Dublin. The new opening brings the total number of branches operated by Murdock’s to 11 and will create 15 new jobs. The company, which was established in 1982, employs a team of over 270 staff across Northern Ireland...
College’s Collaboration to offer New Degree Course
TWO new degree courses in Early Childhood Care, Health & Education and Sport are to be made available for the first time in the North West thanks to a partnership between North West Regional College (NWRC) and Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT). The collaboration will enable local learners to undertake a Foundation degree, Higher National...
How video killed the interview star in recruitment drive
LATE last year Randox Careers launched a new recruitment campaign for their competitive APEX Programme, which employs first year undergraduates across various divisions. The campaign, named #IamTheOneUU, began with a number of recruitment presentations in the Ulster University and employed a fresh approach to the way first years can apply for the APEX Programme, by...
Website to help autistic people in the workplace
A NEW website is helping people with autism to find work. The site, designed and developed for free by Allstate NI as part of a Dragon’s Den style Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, will boost a fledgling social enterprise that is changing the way businesses think about people on the autistic spectrum. Specialisterne NI is...
LEDCOM celebrates 30th anniversary
NORTHERN Ireland enterprise centre LEDCOM is celebrating 30 years of job creation, support for small businesses and vocational training of long-term unemployed. Over the past three decades LEDCOM (Local Economic Development Company) has helped create more than 900 small businesses providing 1,500 new jobs; 90 new social enterprises with 250 jobs, and has helped a...
Allstate NI Dragons’ Den Project Helping People With Autism Find Work
A new website, designed and developed free by Allstate NI as part of a Dragon’s Den style Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, will make a massive difference to a fledgling social enterprise that is changing the way businesses think about people on the Autistic Spectrum. Specialisterne NI, formed in 2014, is a specialist recruitment agency...