Fashion retailer New Look’s Central Distribution Centre (CDC) in Newcastle-Under-Lyme will have all its recruitment managed by supply chain recruiter Top Gear.
The Distribution centre has on average 60 shifts per day, rising to over 200 in peak trading periods in roles such as order picking, general warehousing, goods management and stock control.
Commenting on plans by Iain Duncan Smith to scrap the default retirement age, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
‘While we welcome the decision to end the arbitrary retirement age, raising the state pension age over this short timescale is clearly driven by a desire to cut spending rather than a planned approach to introducing more flexible retirement.
‘Raising the state pension age will hit the less well-off far more than the rich. 65 year old men in Kensington and Chelsea can expect to live a further 23 years, while those in Glasgow only 14 years.
‘A majority of 64 year old men are already out of the labour market. Raising the state pension age will not help any of them stay in work. It will simply turn a generation of 65 year olds from pensioners into the unemployed.
‘The government must also spell out what will happen to women as only increasing the pension age for men is almost certainly a breach of sex discrimination law.’
It is thought that requirements for engineers will continue to outstrip supply until at least 2015, so says Alan MacKinnon, recruitment delivery manager at TfL in Recruiter magazine.
Until major national programmes have been delivered over the next 5 years then demand will exceed supply. It is hoped the flow of graduates from 2005 and on will have a real impact in the industry.
Waitrose, Abercrombie and Fitch, IBM and Arriva are among some 100 exhibitors at the Summer Graduate Fair, taking place at the Business Design Centre in Islington in London on June 23 from 11am till 3pm and on June 24 from 11am till 4pm.
Entry is free and visitors can get careers advice, have CVs checked and browse of vacancies.
Homesense (Part of TK Max), which already has 17 stores across the UK, is planning to new retail outlets in Leeds, Swansea Taunton, York and Newcastle Metro Centre this year.
Each store requires around 35 staff. To find out more go to the careers pages at www.homesense.com where you can also download an application form.
