Jobs Watch: 3sun and BT set to recruit, London law firms hire in Wales
8 March 2013
Oil & gas solutions provider 3sun, telecoms giant BT and two London-based law firms have announced intentions to get recruiting.
Fri, 8 Mar 2013
Oil & gas solutions provider 3sun, telecoms giant BT and two London-based law firms have announced intentions to get recruiting.
3sun
More manpower is needed by the company within the Great Yarmouth area and across the UK, both in technician positions and in roles for “highly experienced personnel for international projects”, the firm says.
Managing director Graham Hacon says: “We plan on recruiting 100 individuals to our technical teams focusing on the wind turbine area of the business, including electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, pre-assemble, installation and cabling engineers.”
Like BT, the firm is touting ex-military personnel as a key talent pool for the firm – for more on which see p5 of next week’s March edition of Recruiter.
BT
The telecoms provider is to create more than 1,000 engineering jobs in the firm’s Openreach business as part of an ongoing £2.5bn investment in fibre broadband.
The jobs include 400 apprenticeships and 200 for service leavers, a talent pool BT has consistently tapped for its Openreach business, recruiting a total of 1,000 in the past two years.
BT has recruited around 460 apprentices in the current financial year, attracting over 18,500 applications. It has also made a commitment to hiring long-term unemployed as part of the jobs push.
Law firms
Two legal aid solicitors – Blavo & Co and Duncan Lewis – are to create 270 jobs in Wales, reports newspaper Daily Post Wales, with at least half of these in North Wales.
This is in advance of impending changes to legal aid regulations coming in on 1 April, which legal headhunter and business consultant Sean Smith tells the paper the move means smaller law firms may have to close as a result, although he says that the companies are happy to discuss with such firms possibility of acquisitions or keeping on staff whose positions are in danger.
Oil & gas solutions provider 3sun, telecoms giant BT and two London-based law firms have announced intentions to get recruiting.
3sun
More manpower is needed by the company within the Great Yarmouth area and across the UK, both in technician positions and in roles for “highly experienced personnel for international projects”, the firm says.
Managing director Graham Hacon says: “We plan on recruiting 100 individuals to our technical teams focusing on the wind turbine area of the business, including electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, pre-assemble, installation and cabling engineers.”
Like BT, the firm is touting ex-military personnel as a key talent pool for the firm – for more on which see p5 of next week’s March edition of Recruiter.
BT
The telecoms provider is to create more than 1,000 engineering jobs in the firm’s Openreach business as part of an ongoing £2.5bn investment in fibre broadband.
The jobs include 400 apprenticeships and 200 for service leavers, a talent pool BT has consistently tapped for its Openreach business, recruiting a total of 1,000 in the past two years.
BT has recruited around 460 apprentices in the current financial year, attracting over 18,500 applications. It has also made a commitment to hiring long-term unemployed as part of the jobs push.
Law firms
Two legal aid solicitors – Blavo & Co and Duncan Lewis – are to create 270 jobs in Wales, reports newspaper Daily Post Wales, with at least half of these in North Wales.
This is in advance of impending changes to legal aid regulations coming in on 1 April, which legal headhunter and business consultant Sean Smith tells the paper the move means smaller law firms may have to close as a result, although he says that the companies are happy to discuss with such firms possibility of acquisitions or keeping on staff whose positions are in danger.
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