‘MY JOB BUDDY’ HELPS JOBSEEKERS FIND THEIR DREAM JOB
At the current time finding in a job in such a competitive market is very difficult, at My Job Buddy our sole aim is to help jobseekers through that often frustrating process.
Everyone is turning to the internet for their job searching, no matter what their level of job, experience or ambition, but there are major frustrations associated with jobseeking. Anyone who has applied for jobs on the internet is probably aware of automated 'email alert' systems, where you are regularly emailed a list of jobs that the automated system thinks might interest you. The vast majority of these jobs are not relevant at all and these emails end up being a form of authorised spam in your email inbox! Our Search Buddy services really are something quite unique specifically designed to ease such frustrations.
The idea was a simple one. Why let a machine do the work when it gets it so wrong so often?
We all know how irritating, boring and time consuming it can be to sit looking through job listings, whether they are in the local newspaper or on a website.
We have a team of dedicated recruitment specialists who spend their time carrying out the hard work of job hunting on your behalf. We offer three different levels of Search Buddy, as detailed below. Our Search Buddy offering starts as low as £14.99 per month. Visit our website at www.myjobbuddy.co.uk for full details.
We also offer complimentary services all aimed at jobseekers looking to improve their job hunting prospects for full details visit our website at www.myjobbuddy.co.uk.
Pizzaly – The world’s new automatic pizza distributor
Your oven cooked pizza ready in only 150 seconds (2 and a half minutes)
The new automatic distributor “Pizzaly” by Italia Pizza Service is finally ready. Pizzaly is a new system in automatic distribution entirely “Made in Italy” which allows you to serve a hot and crispy pizza in 2 and a half minutes.
THE DISTRIBUTOR – It is just as large as the majority of automatic food and beverage distributors that are in commerce. It has an incorporated freezer that contains 104 precooked pizzas (4 different types, each 250 mm, 9,84 inch) which are kept frozen. Once you have chosen your favourite pizza indicated on the monitor display, the pizza is transferred to the oven where it will be cooked in 2 minutes time and then it will be served directly in a plastic tray. Pizzaly’s strong point is the oven (no microwave!!!) entirely patented by the firm’s technicians which allows a perfect cooking whatever the outside temperature.
LOCATION – The pizza distributor can be placed in any public or private property, inside or outside, even in small areas.
MEASUREMENTS - The machine is only 120 cm (47,2 inch) wide 75 cm (29,5 inch) deep and 190 cm (74,8 inch) high
ELETRICITY – 230 V monophase and it absorbs electricity only in the heating phase up to 3 watts.
Pizzaly by Italia Pizza Service is the automatic pizza distributor: it is easy to install simple to run and assures a high quality product.
For further information contact the exclusive commercial agent : PALLADIO VENDING of Vicenza. Phone +39 0444.946848 Fax +39 0444.298773 - info@italiapizzaservice.com
Online Recruitment with a Difference
AWD online is taking the traditional recruitment agency model to a new level with its new online flat fee recruitment service.
Gary Silver, a Director at AWD online explains, “AWD online was set up to give businesses from all different sectors an alternative, value for money, way to recruit new permanent employees for their company.
We have streamlined the traditional recruitment model, which has reduced our costs that are now passed on to our clients, and unlike other online flat fee recruitment companies we keep our pricing structure simple, with no additional costs or hidden extras. One vacancy credit will cost £525 (+vat), with discounts being offered for multiple jobs.
Historically businesses would either recruit staff directly by placing adverts in magazines and newspapers, or more recently online, or utilise the services of a traditional recruitment agency.
Although all of these methods to recruit staff have some advantages, they also have big disadvantages. Some of the major disadvantages by employing these approaches were that businesses would either receive not enough or too many unsuitable applications from direct advertising, which was also extremely time consuming to process, or the businesses would have to pay high fees to recruitment agencies for each applicant they hired, which would become very expensive.
Our unique flat fee recruitment model is designed to provide our clients with the best of both worlds. The low cost of advertising directly with the expertise of using a professional recruitment company.
CVs are sourced just as you would expect from a traditional recruitment agency, but without the costs associated to it, and unlike online job boards, our service is not automated. We are experienced flat fee recruitment consultants who take the time to talk to each client and potential applicant to ensure there is a real fit in skills and expectations required for the vacancy.
By using our flat fee recruitment service our clients know they are receiving real value for money and the chance to hire some of the best hand picked applicants in the market place, and our applicants know they are going to be offered some career enhancing opportunities that are a perfect match to their skills and experience”.
AWD online can be contacted on: 0330 088 1895
Focus Training comes to a venue near you
Focus Experimental Training are offering businesses the opportunity for the focus team to come out to you wherever and whoever you are, providing you and your managers off-site leadership development training to help you get the best out of your employees. And the team at Focus Training will do all the hard work for you, from organising a bespoke experimental training programme, organising the venue and conferencing, so at the end of the training you simply have to deal with one invoice and enjoy the experience of the jam-packed day.
Focus Experimental Training are dedicated to offering their customers top training services ranging from graduate training and outdoor team building to help you learn how to develop and train your staff.
And if you can’t get to us, then Focus Training will come straight to your business or another hotel or conference centre, providing the exact same training as they would back home in Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
Focus Training takes a unique approach to learning, and the key to their success is enabling the transfer of skills learnt back to the workplace. There are a wide range of training courses the team provides on and offsite which can help your team grow and develop.
If you are a new team and are just getting to know each other, then Focus Training can provide outdoor team building. You will be working together, communicating, sharing experiences and learning to trust one another. This form of team building allows you to build a professional relationship with your employees, further stretching your goals and targets as a team.
If there is a change in management in the office and you need extra training to help you learn how to manage others, Focus Training have specific skills which focus on change management.
Focus Training helps you to deal with a range of tasks, such as building your confidence in managing other people, how to delegate responsibility, improve productivity and motivate your team.
Their graduate training programme is a fantastic way to get your new trainees settled in to their working environment and how to be proactive in a working environment. The programme has been designed to fill the graduate with essential information over a short period of time which they won’t forget. The expert team at Focus has already helped graduates at companies such as Warburtons, Bovis, Autoglass and Arcadia.
With so much for you to choose from, you and your team will be well equipped to ensuring a focus filled environment in your workplace.
And to get a taster of just what is on offer this month at Focus Experimental Training, the team is inviting businesses to their free Taster Day on May 13th at their training centre in Bashall Eaves, Ribble Valley, Lancashire.
The Taster Day is primarily aimed at the HR or Learning and Development Managers and Directors of businesses who wish to engage in the opportunity to network with likeminded professionals. The day will provide managers with practical solutions in getting their team engaged and productive in the work place. The day will feature an array of training events such as unlocking motivation in people, empowering you as a team leader and performance in the workplace. The day will also include a range of outdoor experimental activities which are used within the workshops. To bring the learning to life, these are then reviewed and related back to the workplace by expert facilitators with strong industry backgrounds.
For more information about the Taster Day or any other training sessions on or off-site, contact Shelly Posthuma de Boer, Development Manager at shelly@focus-training.net or Fax 01254 826 015.
Notes to editors
Focus offers high-quality management training in a refreshingly different setting. We aim to get our delegates out of the classroom and into the countryside.
Our custom-built facilities at Clough Bottom are located within a working organic farm set amid 360 acres of delightful countryside.
Our three superb stone barns houses the latest hi-tech training and conference facilities, while the farm and its diverse activities weave their own spell on our clients.
In this peaceful valley, remote from the pressures of the workaday world, you and your team will find it surprisingly easy to recharge your thinking and develop valuable new skills. While the farm dates back to the 17th century, it follows best modern practice, combining organic beef production, with an ornamental tree and shrub business, holiday cottage hire and a horse and pony management service.
Focus Experimental Training Ltd
Bashall Eaves
Near Clitheroe
BB7 3NA
Tel: 01254 826222
Check4Jobs hits a quarter of a million unique applications
Check4Jobs hits a quarter of a million unique applications
When Check4Jobs launched in March 2008, it was surprising that in that same month they managed to reach over 20,000 unique applications sent to their clients. What is more surprising still, is that by January 2009, nearly a year after its launch, Check4Jobs can boast a reported quarter of a million unique applications. This is over a 1000% increase from 2008, making Check4Jobs one of the fastest growing job aggregators in the UK’s online recruitment market.
There may be a number of reasons for this increase, the main reason being the skill and talent of the Check4 Ltd group, bringing on board a wide selection of top recruitment job boards such as CV-Library, Reed and Monster. All of which provide 1000’s of new jobs for the site, making Check4Jobs a fantastic ‘One stop Shop’ for UK job seekers.
It is of course necessary to point out that the current economic situation must have also had an impact on these figures. With unemployment hitting 2 million, the highest since 1997, it is not unexpected that the increased number of job seekers looking on the internet for jobs will have come across Check4Jobs and decided to use its services. This is includes their one of a kind iCV (Intelligent CV) service, being just one simple form, it is a super fast and secure CV registration and distribution service, only available to job boards and CV databases, making sure that employers looking to recruit, know what candidates are available.
When applicants enter their CV details through iCV, it automatically registers and uploads all the necessary information to the job boards’ database, allowing the candidates to then be able to login to the site and apply for any relevant positions. For job seekers this is a free and easy service to help them get their CVs out into the job market, massively increasing their chances of getting a new job in a shorter time than usual. A foremost result of this service is that the candidates do not have to waste precious time registering on other sites, as iCV will do this for them.
Unlike the many CV distribution services that can be found on the web, iCV allows its candidates to be fully registered with the job boards that Check4Jobs work with such as CV-Library, Simply Jobs and Reed. This is the first time the UK online recruitment market, has offered this facility to candidates and job boards and has already proved successful to many that have used this service.
Check4Jobs is a free service to job seekers. For their affiliates this is a ’pay as you use’ CV capture service, with no contracts or minimum terms or charges. Visit www.check4jobs.com today.
Check4 Ltd. 8 Shaftesbury Court, Chalvey Business Park, Slough, Berkshire, UK, SL1 2ER
Contact Info: Chris Powdrill at Check4Jobs Chris@check4jobs.com or on 0845 602 5009
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Company Director Voted Champion
Company Director Voted Champion
The Shropshire Star has been running an award programme called “Telford Champion”. The aim is for residents throughout Telford and Wrekin to nominate 40 Telford Champions to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Borough. We are proud to announce that John Franklyn – Director of Telford First was nominated and warded “Telford Champion”
John Franklyn said: “It is an honour for anyone to be nominated and often the nominations are made by a wide range of people for a wide range of reasons. To receive such an award is a true honour. I may never know who nominated me or why, but I do know it would not have been possible without the support of many people I have come to respect for a wide range of reasons.”
John Franklyn was nominated as Telford champion for his work in the community. As a Company Director, John Franklyn believes that business and community needs go hand in hand and takes great pride in supporting residents in many ways throughout many communities.
We would like to thank everyone who has contacted us over the last couple of weeks. We have had the great pleasure of speaking with many people who have enquired about our services. Telford First closely monitor current affairs and closely monitor issues as they affect residents throughout the borough of Telford and Wrekin.
It is obvious that the current financial climate is making it hard for everyone. Council tax will increase in the next financial year by at least 2.5%. Jobs are in short supply and the cost of living seems to be increasing faster than ever.
These are just some of the factors that are affecting us, the boom period is over and the bust season has well and truly started. This response has been reflected in our service price with Senior Citizens, Disabled Residents and families in receipt of benefits qualifying for a reduced hourly of just £5 per hour and our special offer of just £7.50 for everyone if they use our services before June 30th 2009.
We pride ourselves on the fact that we put our customers first and have led the way in providing quality and affordable services during economic downturn.
Contact Info: Telford First
Redundancies The Healthy Choice
Redundancies; Adopt the healthy choice to help harness talent
Having analysed the scenario from every angle and now found that redundancies are the only way to keep the business moving forward. Here are six tips on outplacement, fulfilling the healthy alternative but with the added benefit of discovering new talent in your own back yard. Dawn Bailey of OsCar has many years experience in working with businesses to ensure that they derive the full benefit when they are faced with making staff redundant. Here she shares some of that experience to prepare your business for the future.
Check that the HR department have current experience of handling redundancy and change.
If not, then get help now. A professional can train your people and it will pay dividends in future productivity. Now is the time to roll your sleeves up and get involved to benefit those ‘at risk’, i.e. those singled out for a decision whether they stay or have to go. Beware the disaffected employees and those wanting to cash in on potential turmoil – nip it in the bud by knowing the law and move on – do not ask line managers to handle these people; this is where your professionalism counts most in saving the future of the business.
Do you have good measurable Outplacement service in place?
Your chosen Outplacement Provider should be on site when the announcement is made. When the news is delivered it will soften the blow if an independent professional is waiting in the wings and your people know that help is available. If this process is handled well it will reassure those not affected by knowing that the company cares about all employees. This is crucial to your employee retention and enables the company to be in a leaner and healthier state to face the future and avoid a repetition of the process later. There are free Outplacement services available but be sure that you don’t mistake “free” for worthwhile, we all know the adage about a free lunch.
Remember that you have already invested time and money on recruitment and training.
Galvanise those left behind to really get behind the company. If you have a number of people applying for remaining positions give them the same help you have provided to the redundant employees. A good outplacement company will have specialist coaches for just this sort of scenario and will enable you to select the best candidates to motivate and establish loyalty.
Harness the talent in the building.
Share as many objectives and long term plans of the organisation after the restructuring that you can; you will be pleasantly surprised who comes out of the shadows with good ideas and untapped talent. HR should adjust their strategy if past focus has been on recruiting; now it is all about talent spotting, development and retention. Think rewards and benefits and you will get high performance and fulfilment.
Focus on the real business needs because this is an opportunity for HR to shine.
Over the last few years and not a moment too soon, HR consultancy has finally got its feet under the table. Enlightened organisations have allowed their HR departments to have a real strategic role – it is now the time for HR to follow through and add real weight to the Board Room. This might involve bringing long term plans forward and being willing to adapt and work hand in glove with those departments once seen as ‘the enemy’ like finance. After all you all want the same result; a well motivated and happy workforce.
Contact Info: Dawn Bailey is the Senior Partner in OsCar HR Systems, based in Hampshire but operating throughout the UK and Europe helping businesses with unique Outplacement and Staff Development Coaching. She can be contacted via http://www.oscar-pbx.com/outplacement.html or by phone at 020 7043 1636.
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