Are you a Professional / Executive candidate who has recently become unemployed?

First Choice Recruitment and your local Job Centre are now working together to give Newly Unemployed Professionals support in:

- Identifying transferable and marketable skills
- Looking at labour market intelligence
- Analysing vacancies
- Employer selection techniques (inc. assessment centre and psychometric testing processes)
- Inteview techniques
- Preparing a personal action plan for going forward.

" Following my attendance, I am writing to thank you for your time and advice. Like many other newly unemployed managers, my expectations on what I would learn on such a course were not very high prior to my attendance as I had 'been there and done it all before'. I was amazed to find things have well and truly moved on and your advice and guidance during the day proved invaluable in my job search especially in the area's of CV writing, interview techniques and where to seek new employment. Not only was the day informative but your relaxed and informal style made it enjoyable."

" I must admit my scepticism about today's workshop. I wondered why a whole day was needed and didn't think I was going to get much out of it as I thought it was probably aimed more for people who did not have formal CV's or those who did not have many qualifications. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. I learnt a lot from the workshop and found all aspects of it very informative and interesting. So apologies for the initial disbelief and thank you for an enlightening day."

"A very informative workshop delivered in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere."

"A well delivered course full of helpful pointers."

"Very interactive course, professionally run, left me feeling more positive about the future."

If you are interested in attending the Free One day Workshop please call us or ask your local Job Centre Advisor for further details.
Added 2009-10-21

In 2008 we had an excellent attendance record by our workers which is greatly appreciated by everyone here at First Choice Recruitment.

In honour of this we decided to award a prize to the person with the best record for 2008 which this year will be called the 'Clare Timlin Zero Absence Award 2008'

(Clare, for those of you who don't know has taken care of our payroll for over 10 years and hasn't had a day off sick in the last 5 years)

The awarded person will receive a £50 high street voucher a certificate and will have next year's prize named after them.

This year Paul Buckingham had been awarded the prize.

Congratulations to Paul! and let's see who wins the 'Paul Buckingham Zero Absence 2009' award.

As we are all aware with all the doom and gloom this year First Choice Recruitment are happy to report that our business has gone from strength to strength in 2008.

We celebrated our 15th Anniversary this year in style back in February and are looking ahead now to our 20th!

In a dynamic, fast paced and highly competitive industry we focus on providing our clients with the best possible service and finding the right people for the right job.

We would like to take this opportunity on congratulating Clare Timlin on her new promotion to Office Manager. Clare started as Junior Branch Administrator almost 11 years ago and has worked her way up the ranks taking on more and more responsibility, excelling in all areas and aspects of company business and truly deserves her promotion. Congratulations Clare!!!

We would also just like to take this opportunity to say a heartfelt thank you to all of our clients and candidates and every one who has helped 2008 be a success……. Let’s see what 2009 brings!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from every one at First Choice Recruitment.

On the 15th February this year, we marked our 15th Anniversary success by handing out Valentine style chocolates and balloons to local people in and around our offices on Silver Street and in Wakefield City Centre. Our promotional girls gave people in the community the chance to win a luxury Harrods food hamper and Emma Colton won the fantastic hamper stocked with delicious treats!…big congratulations!

Along side the promotion held on the 15th of February, we ran a successful media campaign which appeared in the local Wakefield/Pontefract Express Newspapers for a seven week period. The re-branded adverts were very well received and presscoverage boosted our ‘Valentine Style’ campaign immensely.

We wanted to acknowledge our committed staff and accomplishment and share it with the local community especially since we have successfully placed over 7000 temps from office juniors to board room level in the Wakefield area over nearly two decades.

As this was a big year for us at First Choice Group of Companies we also took the opportunity to re-brand our corporate identity. With much consideration and thought, we changed our company logo, stationary and launched our new website.

We just want to say a huge thank you, to all who have supported us for the past 15 years……and look forward to future success working within the community!