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Issue 16

Contents

Page 6, Recruitment News, Multi-million pound boost to Newport economy, Newport regeneration to create more jobs with new hotel, Budget hotel chain creates 300 new jobs, Wales’s biggest law firm expansion, Ex-offenders could solve skills shortages, Late for work – again?

Page 8, Welsh Recruitment Meets, Rick Towers, the general manager of one of the UK’s largest advertising agencies talks to Welsh Recruitment about the nature of the on and offline recruitment marketplace in the region and beyond.

Page 10, Opinions, Your CV can open the door for a flourishing new career. But, sometimes the simplest of mistakes can ruin your job chances before you click the ‘Send’ button

Page 18, Find a new job on the Net – the best of the rest jobs around

Page 20, 87,600 reasons to be cheerful, The UK is facing a chronic shortage of skilled labour. And the problem will get worse unless more tradespeople are found. There is one company, Access Training, who is leading the drive to resolve the skills gap crisis and is taking people from all walks of life - school leavers to military personnel – and training them as fully qualified tradespeople.

Page 24, Career advice: How to write the perfect CV, The first opportunity that you have to impress a potential new employer is your CV. But, if you get it wrong then you could be caught up in a never-ending treadmill of sending out application after application. We will show you how to write an effective CV that will open doors and create opportunities to secure that all-important interview – the rest is up to you.

Page 28, Access all Areas – finding work against all odds, Despite living in an age of equal opportunities, political correctness and anti-discriminatory laws, there are certain sectors of society still alienated from the workforce.

Page 30, Employment Central, National Temporary Workers Week