Apprenticeship scheme links company's needs with those of the community

摘要

A service business that was undertaking a recruitment programme, using the East London Business Alliance (Elba) as a channel to recruit from public-sector job brokerages in east London, was frustrated with the amount of time wasted interviewing unsuitable candidates and training employees who failed their probation period. The business was trying to tap into the job pool in deprived areas of east London in order to recruit a local workforce for its clients in the City and Canary Wharf, while also helping Elba with its objective of increasing employment opportunities in the City and Canary Wharf for people living in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham. Elba helps employers to recruit locally to achieve both their business and corporate-social-responsibility objectives, working closely with local job brokerages and training providers to help them in servicing the corporate marketplace and thus achieving their own objectives of reducing local unemployment.