Pictured above: Pertemps People Development Group's
Erdington team (from left) Nicola Farrow, Steve Baker, Karen Evans
and Bee Karwal celebrate the launch of Work Programme and getting
their first client into employment
The company given the task of helping thousands of unemployed
people across the West Midlands into sustainable jobs is
celebrating its first success story under the Government's new Work
Programme.
Within a week of the ambitious new initiative being launched in
Birmingham, one of Pertemps People Development Group's (PPDG) first
customers, a man who had been unemployed for more than a year,
started a job with a local company.
The success came at PPDG's new Erdington office which opened to
jobseekers on June 20. On June 27th a man, who was referred to the
office by Jobcentre Plus, started working at the local branch of a
major national employer.
Erdington staff celebrated the news that the client was the
first successful job outcome under the new Work Programme in the
Birmingham area.
Erdington site manager Karen Evans said: "This is a great sign
of things to come. To have a client actually start work just one
week after the initiative started is a fabulous result and we hope
he will be very happy in his new role. I am really excited for the
future of the Work Programme in Birmingham, and especially here in
Erdington where our team is working extremely hard to get the best
results for our clients.
"It is great to operating in the area after winning the Work
Programme contract and I can assure local people that we have a
great team of employment experts here ready and willing to unearth
that spark of brilliance in everyone that will help them back into
work."
PPDG won the five to seven year Work Programme contract as a
prime deliverer in the Birmingham, Solihull & Black Country
region in a national tendering process carried out by the
Government
Regional operations director Kate Darcy said: "This is a
fantastic start to the Work Programme and I'm sure it's just the
beginning of what will be a very successful initiative. Our role
under the Work Programme is to help as many unemployed people as
possible not just find a job, but begin sustainable employment and
build successful careers. We are working very closely with local
employers to identify opportunities that will give people a chance
to develop and grow in their new roles."
She added: "As a company, we are extremely proud of what we have
achieved in the last 12 years in finding employment for more than
100,000 people. We have a track record of securing opportunities
and delivering our promises."
PPDG's team of employment experts provides advice on benefits,
confidence building, one-to-one support, CV and interview
preparation as well as finding the right job or training course. In
partnership with DWP, the Ministry of Justice and Jobcentre Plus,
PPDG delivers a diverse range of employment and training
initiatives and many ESF funded programmes. PPDG came fourth in The
Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For 2011.
For more information about Pertemps People Development Group,
please visit their website here: www.ppdg.co.uk