Tina Calder

Portadown Apprentice Helps Amazon Celebrate 1,000 New Apprenticeship Opportunities

An apprentice from Ardboe working at Amazon’s delivery station in Portadown is encouraging others to start an apprenticeship and boost their careers as Amazon announces the expansion of its apprenticeship programme with the addition of 1,000 new positions across the UK in 2024. Amazon offers one of the UK’s top private sector apprenticeship schemes according […]

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Synergy Learning Interns Celebrate Growth At Company

To mark this year’s celebration of National Apprenticeship Week recently, a Carryduff intern and Bangor born intern-turned-employee from Northern Ireland based learning technology company Synergy Learning are sharing their stories. National Apprenticeship Week provides employers and businesses with the opportunity to promote the positive impact apprenticeships and early career programmes make to individuals and businesses

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Collaborative Working Will Be Key To Policy Delivery For New Executive Says FSB

Alan Lowry, FSB’s NI Policy Chair, has welcomed the positive political progress made during the past week which culminated in the re-establishment of the NI Assembly and Executive. He has called for political representatives not to be shy in coming forward to ask for the input of business representative organisations to help inform and shape

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Eastside Awards Recognises Charity Fundraiser For Outstanding Contribution

This year’s Eastside Awards in association with George Best Belfast City Airport has been the most successful to date. A testament to the community’s engagement and support for the awards, almost 14,000 votes were cast by an enthusiastic public in partnership with Belfast Live to recognise favourites in seven categories. The ballroom at Hastings Stormont

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Northern Ireland Sickness Absence Rate Reaches Eight Year High

A new report by Ulster University Economic Policy Centre (UUEPC) comparing and analysing sickness absence across the UK, to better understand the impact for businesses, has found that in 2022, Northern Ireland experienced its highest sickness absence rate since 2015. The findings from the report ‘Sickness Absence. Lessons for Northern Ireland Businesses and Managers’ show that the

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Jet2holidays Provides £650,000 In Apprenticeship Funding To Support Independent Travel Agent Partners

Jet2holidays has revealed that it is providing almost £650,000 of apprenticeship funding to support independent travel agent partners in developing the next generation of talent in their stores and in the travel industry. This funding includes the transfer of almost £500,000 in apprenticeship levy funds to independent travel agents, after a phenomenal response to Jet2holidays’ Appoint an Apprentice scheme.

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NI Construction Workloads Continue To Fall, But At Slowest Rate In Two Years

Construction workloads in Northern Ireland continued to fall through the last quarter of 2023, but they did so at the slowest rate since early 2022, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Construction Monitor. A net balance of -10% of respondents in NI reported a fall in workloads, up from -38% the

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Belfast Software Firm Cloudsmith Launches Navigator, A Game-Changer For Open-Source Package Selection

Cloudsmith, a pioneer in cloud-native software supply chain management, has launched Navigator, an innovative search engine designed to empower software engineering teams to select the highest quality packages early in their development lifecycle. Navigator slashes the time it takes for engineers to find the most appropriate packages, saving both time and money and creating a

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Newly Independent Technology-Enabled Trading Alliance (TETA) To Usher In A New Era Of Global Trade Innovation

The Technology-Enabled Trading Alliance (TETA), a consortium that has rapidly become a hub for innovative solution providers in global trade, is set to become an independent entity, spinning out from ubloquity where it was incubated. In a strategic move to refocus its core business, ubloquity has decided the time is right to decouple TETA, allowing

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