Almost £8 million has been pledged by over 30 businesses to the unique Co-op Levy Share service, which will create almost 1,000 apprenticeships and help plug the opportunity gap for underrepresented groups.
Students from a Birmingham school got an insight into one of the region’s biggest businesses when they visited its Warwickshire headquarters last week.
More than 100 apprentices are to be recruited by the UK’s largest private utility company, Thames Water, by the end of the year.
Government support for skills and retraining is essential to ease recruitment difficulties, according to the latest Labour Market Update from the CBI and West Midlands-based recruitment specialist Pertemps.
Academics at Aston University Business School will combine the latest in research, insights and entrepreneurial thinking with 60 years of staffing industry knowledge, when they team up with recruitment giants Pertemps.
The DofE Ambassador training at Coventry Fire Station was a huge success with 22 DofE participants representing 11 schools from across Coventry, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Leading recruitment firm Pertemps has partnered with apprenticeship provider Intequal in a bid to offer learning and development opportunities for aspiring IT and digital professionals in the West Midlands.