Employment Briefs – Building Jobs Up
The construction industry is leading jobs growth as Northern Ireland’s claimant count fell by 1,000 in May. The separate labour force survey (LFS) found the unemployment rate for the province in the three months to April was now 6.1%, higher than the UK average of 5.5%. There was a slight rise of 0.1% on the...
Employment Briefs – Bright Sparks
Six students in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast have been awarded scholarships by Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE). The scholarships, each worth £25,000, include financial support as well as the opportunity to spend a year’s placement and each summer working for the Company. NIE launched the Scholarship programme with Queen’s University in 2011...
Employment Briefs – Recipe for Success
GRAINNE Kerr, a Professional Chefs Diploma student at North West Regional College, has been named this year’s Student Chef of the Year at the prestigious Wessex Salon Culinaire competitions. Held at the Brockenhurst College in the New Forest, England, the competition attracted a record entry of culinary experts from across the United Kingdom, with Grainne...
Academy Delivers 20 Graduate Openings
A NEW training academy aims to provide 20 graduates with leader-ship and management skills. The Deloitte Human Capital Academy will offer experience and training in the areas of project and programme management capabilities with human resource consulting, change management, organisational design and lead-ership expertise to manage and solve people issues. Targeting graduates from any discipline,...
Students Build for the Future
ARCHITECTURAL technology students from University of Ulster have been show-casing their work at the end of year show, including those who will graduate later this month. They demonstrated their talent in building information modelling and ex-hibited their innovative building concepts of domestic and commercial projects. Employers in attendance at the event, including WDR & RT...
Employment Briefs – Recruitment Fair
QUEEN’S University and Ulster University joined forces this week to host the biggest ever Northern Ireland Graduate Recruitment Fair. The Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair, with Nijobfinder as media partner, saw 90 exhibitors from a range of employers across a variety of sectors and industries offering graduate vacancies, postgraduate study and training opportunities. Among those...
Sweet Success for Neve’s Winning Code
A BELFAST schoolgirl has won the top prize in a healththemed code competition. Fourteen year-old Neve O’Neill was awarded a tablet computer for her winning entry ‘Sweet Invaders’ in the Better CoderDojo competition, organised by CoderDojo Belfast and Belfast-based tech company, TotalMobile. Judges of the competition, open to children under 16 who attend CoderDojo Belfast,...
Expert advice offered at free SME clinics
SMES across Northern Ireland are being offered the opportunity to access expert practical advice on seeking financial investment by the Ulster University Business School’s SME Centre. A series of SME Finance Clinics are to be held in Belfast, Newry and Londonderry with the aim of upskilling and educating SMEs about the range of alternative finance...
Employment brief – Aerospace Creation
EIGHTY high quality jobs are to be created at an aerospacecomponent firm. RLC is investing almost £35m to expand its Northern Ireland operations and establish a world-class advanced manufacturing capability for its new 10,000sq m factory at the Global Point site in Newtownabbey. As part of the investment, RLC is also undertaking a research and...
Employment Briefs – New Appointments
CO DOWN based food company, Willowbrook Foods has appointed two new members of staff to its NPD team. The NPD technicians are responsible for developing innovative products in response to consumer demands and customer briefs. Seana Boyle, from Strabane in Co Tyrone, joins the team having graduated last June from the University of Ulster with...