Aggreko, the Dumbarton company that builds power generators and cooling equipment, is constructing a £20m factory extension at Lomondgate. This major expansion will both serve to safeguard the jobs of 120 local workers and create a further job vacancies. Aggreko employs over 5,000 people in nearly 150 locations across the globe. It has just won a…
Amadeus, the event caterers responsible for the 2012 London Olympics, Barclays Scottish Open and the Hampton Court Flower Show, are looking to fill 1,000 job vacancies. The vast majority of the jobs are seasonal however there are also permanent senior positions on offer that pay up to £40,000 plus benefits per annum. Most of the…
Recruitment agency, Seetec, is readying itself to begin recruiting staff to fill the 8,500 job vacancies which will be created by the massive 350-store Westfield Stratford City development in London. When finished, the shopping mall will cover just under 18 hectares and be the biggest in Europe: there are also a further 10 hectares of…
New research carried out by economist consultancy firm Volterra, has suggested that the Westfield Stratford Shopping Centre in London could create as many as 14,000 job vacancies – 1,500 more posts than previously expected. If this figure is correct then, when completed, the project will provide 10,000 full-time and 4,000 part-time jobs across a wide…
Travelodge is set to extend its chain of hotels with today’s opening of a new 99-room hotel in Ealing which will create around 35 jobs. This addition now makes it the largest hotel brand in London with 40 hotels and 5,714 rooms however, by the start of next year’s London Olympics, Travelodge has stated that…
Concerns are mounting that the 2012 London Olympics won’t be the great job provider that it was promised to be. A recent investigation into the employment potential of the Games is suggesting that many of the ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ are not materialising. For example, some of the young people who have successfully completed…
According to IT recruitment specialists, Greythorn, the 2012 London Olympics will require at least 5,000 extra IT and Telecoms staff to develop and control the systems that are necessary in order for the event to run smoothly and to plan. The new personnel will be engaged in everything from making sure that news networks can…
The 2012 London Olympics recruitment programme has finally got underway and, if you want to grab one of the ‘tens of thousands of jobs’ which the historic event will generate in the capital, now is the time to act. Recruitment is being handled on a special London Olympics website and the procedure is to upload…
