Employment project getting Gloucester jobseekers back into work
GFirst is helping jobseekers get ready for work with a new employment scheme in Gloucester.
The economic development company has teamed up with Gloucestershire Enterprise Limited, the county's Enterprise Agency and leading skills provider, to run Opportunity Gloucester, a programme designed to get recently unemployed people back into work.
The project provides support for people that have been out of work for under a year by providing one-to-one interviews and mentoring to discuss personal circumstances and ambitions, qualifications, work experience, barriers to employment and then to help to identify training and job opportunities.
Keith Rog, Head of Marketing and Development at GFirst, said: "There are a number of schemes that are running in Gloucestershire for longer term unemployed people but there has been no support for those that have recently come out of work.
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"This can be the best time to find job seekers new employment and so GFirst and Gloucestershire Enterprise Ltd worked with Job Centre Plus to develop Opportunity Gloucester to target those people and help get them back into work and help boost the economy."
Opportunity Gloucester is funded by Jobcentre Plus and open to people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for less than nine months. You can only access support by being referred by your Jobcentre Adviser. Around 25 people will be helped by the scheme in Gloucester each month.
Kevin Holt from Gloucestershire Enterprise Ltd said: "Unemployed people come from a wide range of backgrounds and have very different needs, circumstances, aspirations and starting points. Fortunately this scheme not only recognises this but caters for it too."
Comments
by SG1970
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 9:14PM
“PengiPete - Oh the Mirror. Did the Leveson enquiry pass you by?”
by PengiPete
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 7:41PM
“"More than a thousand sickness benefit claimants died last year after being told to get a job, we can reveal." - http://tinyurl.com/brb9ry4”
by SG1970
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 6:13PM
“Quasi - That's got to be one of the stupidest statements I've seen on here.
Care to back up where a terminally ill patient has been forced back to work?”
by Quasi2010
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 2:44PM
“They will discuss barriers to employment?
According to this government there are no barriers to employment as can be seen in the way they expect the severly disabled and the terminally ill to look for work under threat of having their benefits cut off.”
by SG1970
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 2:33PM
“Employment projects started by........................Labour, oh dear Selina30”
by SELINA30
Tuesday, August 14 2012, 12:54PM
“Another sticking plaster for the gaping wound that is unemployment. This will do nothing to help the long term unemployed. This is the worst economic recovery Britain has ever had. There are now a record number of people without full time work due to the failed stimulus policies of this inept government.”