Hundreds of roles on offer at job fair
ALMOST 100 jobs are up for grabs at two call centres.
Job seekers at The Sentinel Jobs Fair, held at the Victoria Hall, were quick to fill out applications for the roles at Autonet Insurance's Burslem office and Ageas's Trentham Lakes base.
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NEW ROLES: The Sentinel Jobs Fair at the Victoria Hall, in Hanley. Picture: Wesley Webster
Autonet, which sells insurance, is recruiting 60 members of staff over the next three months, while life insurance specialist Ageas is looking for another 19 workers this month alone and will continue to recruit throughout the year.
Vicky Greaves, recruitment officer at Autonet, said: "Between January and March we are recruiting another 60 roles.
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"They are all full-time, permanent roles within the call centre, from customer services to sales advisers.
"There are also some more bespoke roles, such as payroll supervisors, performance manager or analysts, looking at the business strategy.
"We will also be looking for permanent part-time staff, working evenings and weekends."
Autonet, which was founded in 1998, has seen its workforce expand more than tenfold in the past eight years and now employs in excess of 600 people.
Recruitment officer Hayley Degg, of Ageas, which currently employs around 500 people, said: "We are recruiting regularly at the moment. We have got 19 positions for February, then every four weeks we are recruiting more. We have got 12 new workers starting on Monday.
"It's call centre-based work. We don't look for any experience. It's customer service, so we want people who are enthusiastic and confident.
"Full training is provided on a six-week course."
Alton Towers were well represented at the jobs fair, with a huge recruitment drive launched to sign up 1,200 workers.
There were also a number of opportunities in caring professions.
Training and recruitment co-ordinator Dawn Portie, of Nurse+, said: "We are a nursing agency, we are looking for qualified nurses and carers for hospitals, care homes, prisons and day care."
Angie Ball, who manages the Nurse+ Newcastle branch, added: "The number of agencies we supply to is growing, so we are always looking to recruit."
Richard Jones, aged 32, of Stoke, was one of those at the fair who was on the look out for a job.
He said: "I was a plumber for 10 years, but I got laid off in 2009 and I haven't been able to find work since, because I haven't got the qualifications."
Claire Gordon, assistant director of Skills For Employment, based at Stoke-on-Trent College, said: "We find people are coming along looking for a job, but have not thought about what qualifications they might need.
"We run short-term courses, some four weeks long and someone could be in a new job with fresh skills in two months.
"We work closely with Job Centre Plus. All our courses are tailored to suit jobs that are available in the area."
Comments
by LynnH
Thursday, January 31 2013, 8:35PM
“Jobs fair - what a farce - it was a training fair...The only thing my 20yr old daughter was offered was to go on yet another training course for all sorts of anything that would not get you a job. All this was about was to get bums on seats in the depleating colleages who can only teach you how to teach and nothing more.
There were no industries or companies that were prepared to offer proper jobs. The only jobs going were labouring jobs or driving jobs, nothing for women; even the health services were looking for mature people caring for old people.
Total waste of time. My daughter has spent 5 years training since leaving schoool and so far she cannot get a job in the qualification she has.”
by masimage
Sunday, January 20 2013, 3:16PM
“True Johntoe
Although it's probably the same of all parties.
All "vacancies" now are for minimum wage, short term contracts. What we need in this city is not "jobs", we need "careers". Long term employment with a decent living wage and the possibility of improving oneself within the career, not just humping items around a warehouse for hours on end.”
by Johntoe
Friday, January 18 2013, 10:40AM
“"we shall be looking for permanent part-time staff"
No doubt these will be mainly minimum wage jobs, forcing most, if not all, of the people who 'do the right thing' and take "any job they are offered regardless of pay or hours" to be dependant on the 'IN WORK benefits' like working tax credits, child tax credits, housing/council tax benefits etc,
didn't you know? these people have just had their status as "genuine cases who have nothing to fear" revoked, and have now joined the ranks of the "scroungers" along with ALL the unemployed, ALL the sick/disabled and the dying, and are now to be despised, and to be blamed for the state of the economy,
The Tory filth and their supporters DEMAND that all scroungers should take any job they are offered,
While at the very same time they announce that they are going to punish all those who take part time and/or NMW jobs by cutting their 'in work' benefits, AND they intend at the same time, to FORCE anyone who refuses to take one of these jobs to work for free or be made homeless and to go away n starve to death,
{Tory logic} "in order to get the rich motivated and working harder it is essential that we give them MORE money, in order to get the poor motivated and working harder it is essential that we give them LESS money"”