Remploy is running a 2 event for job hunters at 98 Newhall Street in Birmingham Town Centre, on the 1st November, the job fair will specialise in retail with employers including Asda, Tesco, B&Q, Sainsbury, Morrisons and many others.
Vacancies are available in admin and contact centre work, to find out more call 0845 155 2557
The biggest problem facing the hospitality industry today is that of skills shortages. Skilled chefs and managers are in huge demand and staff turnover continues to remain high.
Management in hospitality need a complete range of competences including people management, commercial skills and business acumen, problem-solving, succession planning and resource planning.
On top of this there is also a need to develop knowledge of industry trends and foster innovative skills to secure and keep repeat business. Recruiting, training and retaining quality staff into these positions is a current priority.
It remains a booming industry but there are simply not enough people working in it with the skills sets required to develop the potential of the industry.
An official study, Migration Impact Forum, into the impact of migrant workers in the UK has revealed that they are often more skilled and harder workers that British employees. However the migrant workers as a impact of their harder work tend to pay more tax than the average British worker too.
The study reveals further that the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Polish and other east European workers has had no measurable impact on unemployment.
The first regional soundings by the government also published today show that in seven out of eight regions in England migration has caused pressure on housing and five out of eight regions report difficulties on crime and education.
London has experience relatively strong economic growth of late and yet despite this, London’s employment rate is about 5% below the national average.
The London Development Agency has said that putting unemployed Londoners into employment was possibly the biggest economic challenges that the city faces in coming years.
The UK’s average employment rate is 74.4%, London’s employment rate is just 69.3%, the city’s relatively low skills level is often blamed for the high level of worklessness. On top of this, the barriers still faced by some black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, households with children and lone parent families add to the problems.
On a more positive note when relating to productivity levels many economists are predicting that the capital’s economy is set to grow even faster in the next few years.
Migrant workers are a common part of the demographic workforce in London, for the last 5 years, large number of this transient labour has settled in London and the South East in general.
This is now changing considerably with migrant workers from the EU Accession countries being found across the UK as far a field as Northern Ireland. A recent survey has found that London, the East Midlands, the West Midlands, East Anglia and Northern Ireland are all now considered strong holds for workers. These workers are a major component of our temporary and blue collar workforce.
