Jobcentre Plus What is it

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Jobcentre Plus What is it?

• Agency within Dept for Work Pensions
• Amalgamation of Employment Service and Benefits
  Agency
• 1200 offices/ 90,000 staff
• Work for those who can, support for those who
  cant

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Vacancy Process

• Employer phones Employer Direct 0845 601 2001
• Vacancy details taken at Contact Centre
• Logged on to Jobcentre Plus jobs database
• Advertised on www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
• Jobseeker phones Jobseeker Direct on 0845
• Or jobseeker accesses job on job point

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www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk

• An internet job bank of around 350,000 jobs
• Around 1.3 million visitors a week
• Most visited government site
• Top recruitment site in UK
• But needs to improve offerings to employers

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EURES (European Employment Services)

• 28 country network by 1 May 2004
• Network of around 600 EURESadvisers
• 22 in the UK (under represented in big country
  terms)
• But contributes towards filling of vacancies
  throughout UK and rest of EU

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Whats in it for You?

• Access to a wider jobseeker audience on the web
  and through EURES
• Birmingham to Berlin at the touch of a button
• Focus on sectoral recruitment through jobs fairs,
  e.g. Healthcare
• Development of access to employer databases, e.g.
  work with Cabinet Office

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Jobcentre Plus

• Peter Sydserff
• Jobcentre Plus
• International Recruitment
• Level 10
• Moorfoot
• Sheffield S1 4PQ
• peter.sydserff_at_jobcentreplus.gov.uk