New Jobs Board Set To Create Employment Opportunities For Brighton Residents
Published 8th Sep 2010 by Nicola Freitas

After months of planning, a brand new jobs board, www.BrightonandHoveJobs.com is set to go live early September 2010 securing its position as the only jobs board in the country to exclusively support and promote the city where it is based.

Created by an expert team of local, well-networked recruiters, BrightonandHoveJobs.com aims to become the number one resource for employers and job hunters in the region whilst, at the same time, offering huge benefit to its much deserving city.

BrightonandHoveJobs.com aims to create job opportunities for all; to increase local employment activity; to increase higher value jobs through a city initiative that creates better paid jobs; to make local recruiting affordable and to, ultimately, become the city’s premier job board.

The board will offer an all encompassing approach to employment solutions, training, development and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and, what’s more, will focus squarely on the Brighton and Hove and the commutable areas to ensure an unbeatable local service both for businesses and hungry job-seekers.

Key Features include:
• A purely Brighton based team, dedicated solely to the city of Brighton & Hove
• A national and international candidate reach
• Jobs from all sectors advertised (i.e. administration, finance, technical, sales etc)
• Full time, part time and contract opportunities advertised
• CV database of local talents looking for new opportunities
• Proactively working to reduce employers’ recruitment spend
• Proactive voice at business and council level for local employment and recruitment related topics
• Training and development services for everyone (employed or unemployed)
• CSR opportunities across the city
• Free CV filtering service (coming soon)

The jobs board launches with five founding partners – American Express, Domestic & General, Brighton & Hove City Council, Legal & General and Brighton & Hove Albion. With one more heavy-weight founder soon be announced; the idea of the scheme is to ensure fluid relationships with the best and largest employers in the city.

Marina Kulikova Recruitment Manager, Domestic & General:
“As one of the largest employers in Brighton, Domestic & General is delighted to support the BrightonandHoveJobs.com launch. They are providing us with a unique opportunity to proactively promote our sales and customer service vacancies directly to the local community. Our vision of being a high performing people centric contact centre fits in extremely well with the key features that the site offers. We are very excited to be part of this new local venture!”

On the company’s mission statement, Site Founder Gary Peters iterates:
“BrightonandHoveJobs.com has strategically partnered with the city’s very best employers and service providers to offer job seekers the best job opportunities in our great city. We will ensure that jobs are created, advertised, filled and developed on an ongoing basis meaning that both candidates and local businesses will have the very best recruitment solutions available to them on one easy to use website".

The key role that BrightonandHoveJobs.com will play to the local community is further solidified by the comprehensive range of other partners backing the scheme. They include:

• Albion in the Community
• Brighton University
• Brighton & Hove Chamber of Commerce
• Brighton & Hove City Council
• Brighton & Hove Business and Economic Forum
• Juice 107.2 FM
• Sussex Enterprise


Joe Davenport, Culture & Economy Brighton & Hove Council:
“Providing skills, training and employment for young people, are key elements of the council’s strategy to make Brighton & Hove a city of opportunity. We are committed to supporting the local community and finding local solutions to local problems. Having the opportunity to advertise apprenticeship opportunities to local young residents on a dedicated local website, set up by a local entrepreneur to meet local demand is the perfect example of this.”

Ryan Heal, Managing Director of Juice 107.2:
“As the City's local commercial radio station, we are extremely excited about the prospect of a truly local dedicated jobs service for Brighton & Hove.”

Rebecca Tonks, Sussex Enterprise:
“We are delighted to be partnering brightonandhovejobs.com as the training arm of the website. At Sussex Enterprise, we feel that the values of business support are very well reflected in this new & exciting enterprise for Brighton & Hove.”

BrightonandHoveJobs.com has compiled a list of over 700 jobs, which will be advertised on day one of its launch - many of which are a selection of jobs not available anywhere else on the internet.

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