Asda workers rolling in the aisles as they celebrate long years of service
Over 1,500 dedicated Asda employees, including 36 from Northern Ireland, have celebrated a mammoth combined 41,040 years of service. Workers from Newtownards and Coleraine, Enniskillen and Downpatrick, Dundonald, and Shore Road in Belfast and Omagh joined in the party to mark over 900 years of service between them. The annual celebration, which is now...
Consultation on programme to help jobseekers launched
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has launched a public consultation on a proposed new employment programme for Northern Ireland. The new programme, which has been called provisionally Steps 2 Success (NI), will replace the Department’s main adult return to work provision, Steps to Work, which was introduced in September 2008. The Steps...
Enterprise Minister over the moon about aerospace skills initiative
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed the creation of an additional 500 MSc places in aero-engineering at UK universities. The places, which will be jointly funded by business and government, are in response to industry feedback that the current level of provision of graduate courses at UK universities is not sufficient to meet the future...
Bridge to Employment scheme helps over 60 non-IT graduates net a career
Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry, has today acknowledged the success of the Department’s Bridge to Employment programme which has seen over 60 non IT graduates recruited to IT positions since January. Welcoming Allstate Northern Ireland’s successful use of the Bridge to Employment programme, Dr Farry said: “Through the Bridge to Employment programme over...
Carolyn is named student of the year
Lisburn student Carolyn Barr has beaten off stiff competition to be crowned the UK’s Outstanding BTEC Beauty and Hospitality Student of the Year 2012. Studying at South Eastern Regional College (SERC), she has just completed her Higher National Certificate in beauty sciences where tutors said her commitment and enthusiasm won Carolyn the title. She was...
Minister’s extra cash injection to boost ICT and food safety courses
The ICT and agri-food sectors are of ‘critical importance’ to the growth of the Northern Ireland economy, according to Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry. He has announced additional funding for conversion Masters courses in software development and advanced food safety. The additional funding has been made available due to the reduction in post...
Scheme launched to help workforce deal with stress
One of Northern Ireland’s biggest mental health charities has launched a training service addressing a problem which costs the local economy over £790m a year. Action Mental Health’s new AMH Works consultancy and training scheme will help employers support the one in six people in the workforce said to be affected by mental health problems....
Lucas Love Healthcare aim to fill 30 new jobs
Lucas Love Healthcare today announces that the company has acquired several new healthcare contracts. The contracts will create 35 new permanent roles and up to 30 temporary roles throughout the private sector in Northern Ireland. Lucas Love Healthcare is Northern Ireland’s fastest growing, registered Nursing and Domiciliary Agency. Renowned for their exceptional support and...
PwC offers grant to lucky graduate
Business graduates applying for this year’s Masters in Applied Management at the Ulster Business School have the opportunity to study for free thanks to a bursary provided by PwC. Worth over £5,300, the bursary will cover all course fees at the university’s Coleraine campus as well as travel and residential expenses for the international module...
Firm aims to help families juggle a work-life balance
One of Northern Ireland’s largest employers is making it easier for parents to spend time with their children during the summer. Firstsource Solutions has adopted a number of family-friendly policies to enable its employees to juggle a work-life balance more effectively. The business process outsourcer, which has four contact centres in Belfast and Londonderry, employing...