To Xafinity and beyond for high-flying management graduate
Xafinity Consulting has reinforced its commitment to emerging local talent by sponsoring the prize for ‘Best performing student in Actuarial Science & Risk Management’ at Queen’s University Belfast, Management School. This year the accolade, which is awarded to a final year student, went to Laura McAllister from Glenariff, Co Antrim, who received £400 from the...
Selective Travel wins new territory by rising to universities’ challenge
A multi-million pound contract could create up to 12 new jobs for Northern Ireland’s travel sector. Specialist local travel management company Belfast-based Selective Travel has been appointed travel supplier to the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) framework agreement. It includes around 250 universities and higher education departments across the UK and has a combined annual...
New scheme offers 30 people a chance to get on ICT career ladder
A new ICT apprenticeship scheme will offer opportunities for 30 people in software development and IT infrastructure roles in both the public and private sector. The scheme, involving government and a number of local ICT employers, was launched recently by Employment and Learning Minister, Dr. Stephen Farry and Finance and Personnel Minister, Sammy Wilson. Mr...
Sound venture is keeping youngsters on right path
A joint project between a Belfast church and the Department of Justice is aimed at skilling up young people through music and multi-media and preventing them becoming involved in anti-social behaviour. Justice Minister David Ford recently visited the high-tech media bus which is operating in the Castlereagh area of the city. Developed by Dundonald Elim...
Retail giant and DEL in plan to fill 80 vacancies at new outlets
Retail chainstore Home Bargains is working with the Department of Employment and Learning to fill the 80 new vacancies created by its two new Northern Ireland outlets. DEL’s Employment Service, through a network of 35 Jobs and Benefits offices and JobCentres, offers a range of services to the unemployed, job seekers or job changers, including...
Sod cutting paves way for 200 jobs in the city’s parks
A £5m scheme to improve some of Belfast’s outdoor areas will create 200 jobs and 400 work placements, according to the Department of Social Development. The investment is just part of a larger £150m physical Investment Programme agreed by the leaders of the council`s political parties earlier this year. This week Belfast City Council and the...
A step on ladder to entrepreneur success
Northern Ireland’s young entrepreneurs of tomorrow have been celebrating their success. Over 20 have completed the latest course through the Belfast Enterprise Academy which gave them first-hand experience of the work of businesses, helping them build contacts and providing them with the motivation to take their business ideas forward. The Academy was developed by...
Asda workers rolling in the aisles as they celebrate long years of service
Over 1,500 dedicated Asda employees, including 36 from Northern Ireland, have celebrated a mammoth combined 41,040 years of service. Workers from Newtownards and Coleraine, Enniskillen and Downpatrick, Dundonald, and Shore Road in Belfast and Omagh joined in the party to mark over 900 years of service between them. The annual celebration, which is now...
Consultation on programme to help jobseekers launched
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has launched a public consultation on a proposed new employment programme for Northern Ireland. The new programme, which has been called provisionally Steps 2 Success (NI), will replace the Department’s main adult return to work provision, Steps to Work, which was introduced in September 2008. The Steps...
Enterprise Minister over the moon about aerospace skills initiative
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed the creation of an additional 500 MSc places in aero-engineering at UK universities. The places, which will be jointly funded by business and government, are in response to industry feedback that the current level of provision of graduate courses at UK universities is not sufficient to meet the future...