Students enjoy a taste of oppurtunities in Europe
Students from across Northern Ireland got a taste of Europe recently, thanks the Belfast City Council and the European Commission Office in Northern Ireland. The Opportunity Europe and Beyond event they hosted, now in its eighth year, brings thousands of students to St George’s Market in Belfast to find out more about working, studying, travelling and...
Employers seek confidence not clichés, reveals recruiter
A string of zingy one-liners may have powered ‘Jedi Jim’ towards Alan Sugar’s boardroom, but local job hunters should drop clichés to get ahead, according to Northern Ireland employers. That’s the advice from Belfast-based Recruitment Specialists Brightwater in a new publication drawing on more than 10 years’ expertise and knowledge of local employers’ preferences and gripes. ...
Fast-food franchise serves up 30 jobs with new KFC drive-through
One of Northern Ireland’s most successful franchise operations has created 30 new jobs and expects to take on another 70 people over the next year. Herbal Restaurants, which currently employs 1,100 people, operates the KFC brand here and opened a “double-height drive-through” at Ballyhackamore in East Belfast last week where the first tranche of the...
New posts created as medical firm unveils £6m extension at factory
A medical manufacturing firm is set to create 25 new jobs after obtaining planning permission for an extension. TG Eakin, which employs 60 people in the manufacture of skin protection products, is making a £6m investment which will involve a 5,000 square metre extension to its factory in Comber. Its planning application was fast-tracked by...
£400k boost for city’s Park Centre
Over 20 new jobs are set to be created in west Belfast after a shopping centre signed up three new tenants. The long-established Park Centre, at Donegall Road just off the Broadway roundabout, is welcoming Specsavers, Feetish fish pedicure and Card Factory following a £400,000 investment. The centre is already home to 40 existing retailers...
Northern Regional College launches a unique Foundation Degree in retailing
An innovative employer led Foundation Degree will encourage up-skilling in the retail sector, it was claimed. Dr Stephen Farry, Minister for Employment and Learning, acknowledged the new qualification at a recent event in Junction One’s Omniplex cinema complex in Antrim. Addressing the retailing employers attending the event, Minister Farry said: “One of the ways in...
Computer and Online Basics programme helps users increase their employability
Two learners studying through the Police Rehabilitation and Retraining Trust (PRRT), Holywood, Co Down have become the first in the UK to complete the Computer and Online Basics qualification from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Carole McMurty, centre manager, PRRT, said: “We are delighted that two of our learners have become the first to...
Minister urges students to consider EU Civil Service
The Minister for Europe is encouraging Northern Ireland students to fulfil their global potential and consider a career in the EU Civil Service. David Lidington, speaking recently in Belfast at an event in Queen’s University, gave students an insight into what it’s like to work in Brussels. He also explained why the UK Government is...
£65m social housing injection brings jobs boost
A funding partnership will bring a £65m boost to Northern Ireland’s social housing and support construction jobs. A £30m loan from Northern Bank will help Clanmil Housing access a further £35m statutory grant funding from the Department for Social Development. The combined public and private funding will allow construction of 550 new homes, bolstering the...
Job skill boost for our volunteers
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has launched a new training programme which will continue the work of the Conservation Volunteers Northern Ireland (CVNI) in providing skills for employment. The Minister announced the Training for Employment programme whilst at an awards event where the NI regional winners of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers...