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What a brilliant employment week! The idea behind employment week is for our 16+ members to enter a variety of workplace settings to explore different employability routes they might want to take. During the week our members have a chance to ask questions, experience a workplace setting and understand what a working day might feel like. If you are part of a business or know a business that would like to get involved in future employment weeks please drop me a message. #employment #employmentweek #downsyndrome

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬! 📢 There is still time to register and attend this Friday's Building Bridges summit: "Fair Chance Hiring – Leveraging Fair Chance Hiring for a More Inclusive Rhode Island Workforce" at our Warwick Campus. Those who attend will have the opportunity to participate in one of our skills-development workshops – facilitated by either Damany M. Fisher, Ph.D., or Rehana Lerandeau, co-founders of More Than Our Worst LLC – designed to help you make more informed and equitable hiring decisions. Two of the sessions available are: 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟏𝟎𝟏  ◾ Lay the foundation for employers looking to start or enhance their practices ◾ Understand core principles, including legal guidelines at the local, state, and federal levels ◾ Address common misconceptions, understand internal barriers, and find your business motivations 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜   ◾ Navigate background check reports, distinguish between legitimate risk and unconscious bias, and apply a "nature-time-nature" test to assess a candidate's suitability ◾ Learn tools to make more informed, equitable hiring decisions while maintaining compliance with legal standards Learn more and register ➡️ ccri.edu/workforce/summit

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🌟 Happy National Career Month! 🌟 This November, we’re celebrating National Career Month and highlighting how being part of a union can boost your career. Whether you're looking for training, career guidance, a better work/life balance, or legal support, Aegis is here to help you thrive professionally. 💼 By joining a union, you’ll gain access to: ✅ Training and development opportunities to enhance your skills ✅ Career path guidance based on your strengths ✅ Priority for new roles and internal opportunities ✅ Legal advice on contracts, pensions, and workplace issues ✅ Support for a fair salary and workplace safety Take control of your career with union support! 🚀 #NationalCareerMonth #CareerDevelopment #UnionSupport #BoostYourCareer

Three key benefits for small businesses who apply for the West Yorkshire Fair Work Charter - West Yorkshire Combined Authority. Being a small business ourselves, we know it is easy to question whether The West Yorkshire Fair Work Charter can help you and assume that it will only benefit larger-scale companies. Don't get caught up in these thoughts because we're sure that Tracy Brabin would agree this can be a transformative milestone for your small business. You can find out the three key benefits for your small business by Quest's Managing Director, Sarah Birkenshaw below. #smallbusiness #growth #flexibleworking #ceo

🎉 Full house at Wolves today for the Molineux Meets event during Business Week! Thanks to Maria Scullion, Molineux Stadium Conference and Events and Wolves Foundation, with input from Invest Wolverhampton! 🏟️ We had an incredible panel discussion hosted by Wolves Presenter Gemma Frith, focusing on skills for tomorrow’s workforce. 💼 The panel shared valuable insights to help businesses tackle the skills gap and recruit talent. Here are some key takeaways: 🔹 Caoire Blakemore (AF Blakemore & Son Ltd) highlighted their successful 'text to apply' job initiative for young candidates and emphasised providing on-site support for job applications. 🔹 Daniel Degg (City of Wolverhampton College) stressed that collaboration is key, and urged businesses to connect with the college to help shape training programmes. 🔹 Jenny Cannon (University of Wolverhampton) encouraged long-term investment in people, reminding businesses that the more they invest in staff, the more likely they are to retain talent. 🔹 Julie Obada (City of Wolverhampton Council) advised employers to engage with the council for future skills needs and emphasised opportunities like recruiting care leavers and job carving initiatives. 🔹 Councillor Chris Burden opened the session, advocating for collaboration between organisations, businesses, and education to plan for the future of our city's workforce. Want to hear more? Check out Councillor Burden’s insights in our video below! 🎥 #MolineuxMeets #WolverhamptonBusinessWeek #FutureSkills #WorkforceDevelopment #Collaboration #Wolverhampton #InvestWolves

🔗 As we approach Second Chance Month this April, we're proud to launch a new blog series that highlights our top performing companies when it comes to providing job opportunities for those impacted by the criminal justice system. Nearly 80 million Americans have an arrest or conviction record, which often creates barriers to obtaining steady employment due to negative social stigmas and discriminatory corporate policies. However, in our research we've discovered companies that are leading the way in second chance hiring, creating more equitable policies and programs that truly provide a second chance for returning citizens. Join us in celebrating progress and advocating for policy change. Follow along as we dive deeper into the best practices of these companies in the coming weeks! #SecondChanceMonth #SecondChanceHiring #FairChanceHiring #BreakTheCycle #CriminalJustice

We want Just to be a brilliant place to work where every colleague is given the support and opportunities they need to learn, develop and grow. Building on the success of our Learning at Work Week in April, we’re excited to announce the launch of our next event, with a spotlight on career development! Starting today, our week-long event will offer our colleagues a range of fantastic learning and development opportunities, ideas and career inspiration. Check out this video from Ian Howard to learn more about how we support colleagues to power up their careers! #LearningAtWork #CareerDevelopment #BeBold #BeBrilliant #BeJust 

Next weekend, AvantGarde Search are having our annual Autumn Kick-Off and this time we are heading down south in Norway (Søgne) to have a weekend of hard-work, fun, team building and more. Our key focus this year should benefit all our current clients and future clients, and I wanted to share some of our discussion points. Things that I personally feel is essential when it comes to recruit the best management and technical talent for our tech clients. - Agile recruitment - how can we be even more agile when recruiting? - Disruption - why is disruption important when it comes to recruitment and how can we be more disruptive? - How to further improve the prospects we put together for all positions - How to ensure that our clients employer brand remains a top priority - How can the above result in shorter delivery time on assignments - Review our "bible" - go through the bible created by Trine Aasulfsen Tolfsby with support of the AvantGarders, and ensure we are 100% behind this and all aligned I suspect that the rest of the year will be an exciting time for us. And without saying too much, there are some really BIG news just around the corner. Finally! We really appreciate all the opportunities we get to recruit for some awesome technology companies and great to know that there are even more companies wanting to use our services post-summer. Have a great long weekend all and look forward to be 100% back in action next week 😎

🌟 Mackie Myers Graduates First Month Reflections... 🌟 Our grads are a month in, so we wanted to hear their thoughts on how they’ve been getting on. They’ve taken part in training sessions that has helped them build skills and knowledge within the recruitment industry. 👊 📰 Check out what they think below to get a feel for their experiences at Mackie Myers. #Finance #Recruitment #Culture #GreatPlaceToWork