YOU ARE HERE: Employers – Connexions Birmingham can help YOU

Young people can be good news for employers. They can bring fresh thinking and new ways of looking at things, and are used to change and development. Often they will have up-to-date computer skills too. Connexions Birmingham can help you make the most of this opportunity!

So could you help an unemployed young person in Birmingham aged 16–19 who is keen to get started? Offering a job opportunity or an Apprenticeship means you would give them the opportunity to:

• make that vital first step into employment
• develop their experience, knowledge and skills

You’ll get the benefits of a keen fresh worker and at the same time you would be supporting your community and raising your profile within it.

HOW CONNEXIONS BIRMINGHAM CAN HELP YOU

• with ADVERTISING: we can advertise your job or Apprenticeship opportunity FREE to unemployed young people across Birmingham in our Connexions Outreach venues across the city, and also in the Job Search area of this website and through daily Twitter alerts to young people @CNXBham
• with INFORMATION: we can offer you information about how you can take on an Apprentice and access government Apprenticeship grants, plus details of how young people starting with you might be able to access travel support and also general advice about employing young people

WHY USE CONNEXIONS BIRMINGHAM?

• Our professionally-qualified staff provide unemployed young people aged 16–19 with FREE careers information, advice and guidance and we are experts at working with them — year on year we have reduced the numbers of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET)
• We are in daily contact with unemployed young people across the city and we know what opportunities they want
• Our database gives us exclusive access to unemployed young people in Birmingham

WHAT EMPLOYERS HAVE SAID ABOUT CONNEXIONS BIRMINGHAM

“Connexions provide a great service to employers, making it easy for us to bring on new staff easily and quickly. We have successfully used Connexions on several occasions for roles — all have gone on to have long and successful careers.”

Stuart Simpson
Norton Insurance

“Using Connexions gave us the opportunity to meet a variety of young people with much to offer. I would recommend them to anyone looking to recruit.”

Alison McQuade
Lutine Assurance Services Limited

INTERESTED? FIND OUT MORE!

Phone us today on 0121 675 6231, or email connexionsrecruitment@birmingham.gov.uk

Page last updated 24 January 2013

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