‘After a 10-month job search, I’m finally back in work’
Despite 300 knock-backs, Megan never gave up Britain’s jobs market is getting tougher. Each month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes its.
Jobs
People
Jobs
People
HMRC advises festive workers to check they’re being paid correctly
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding temporary seasonal workers, short-term contract staff and students to know their rights. It says seasonal workers.
Interview
Jobs
People
‘After four years of applying, I finally landed a job’
Tough jobs market but, thanks to Starting Point Recruitment, Aundray now works at Foot Asylum Aundray Gow spent four years job-hunting before landing.
Education
Jobs
Politics
£570m UK-wide investment in essential skills training for next generation
Students at colleges, including in the West Midlands, to benefit The government is investing £570m in expanding training facilities in local colleges, including.
Birmingham
Black Country
Jobs
Ray of hope despite jobless levels in West Midlands being worst in UK behind London
SPR is bucking the bleak jobs market trend The unemployment rate for the West Midlands is the highest in the UK outside of.
Business News
Defence
Jobs
Multi-sector jobs agency Starting Point Recruitment celebrates its most successful year
Based in Walsall and Birmingham, SPR got 1,100 people into work in 2025 A West Midlands recruitment firm landed nearly 50% more people.
Culture
Jobs
Government scheme to encourage youngsters to work in aviation
The government is allocating £750,000 to various projects, including one in Birmingham, aimed at inspiring young people to pursue careers in aviation. The.
Birmingham
Business News
Jobs
Job opportunities abound despite bleak market
While ONS data shows a worsening jobs market, Starting Point Recruitment says there are still “numerous opportunities” There are “numerous opportunities for motivated.
Business News
Education
Jobs
JLR launches STEM programme
West Midlands manufacturing giant Jaguar Land Rover has launched ‘Create Possible’ – a skills programme for schools designed to close the UK’s skills gap.
Jobs
Politics
Mayor to get 93,000 working
‘West Midlands Works’ seeks to lower WM region’s unemployment rate by 5 percentage points by 2035 West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker has unveiled.