Selby Jobs Fair a great success

Glowing feedback from Selby Jobs Fair has prompted Nigel Adams MP to promise another one in the next six months.

The Selby and Ainsty MP has received thanks from new recruits, training organisations and employers who attended the event at Abbey Leisure Centre in September.

He has now vowed to continue linking up job seekers with employment opportunities by naming the date for the next jobs fair in the coming weeks.

“I had some really positive feedback from those who attended and many people are still in contact with companies and going through interview processes,” he said.

“One of the reasons behind organising the jobs fair was to shake up traditional ways of recruiting people and it proved a huge success.”

Just a week after going to Selby Jobs Fair, IT support analyst Donovan Shores, of Abbotts Road in Selby, was behind a desk at Leeds-based company Backup Technology.

He said: “The jobs fair was a lot busier and bigger than I was expecting. There were a couple of IT companies and I talked to all of them. When I spoke to Simon, we got on really well and I had a short interview on the day.

“I then had another interview two days later with one of the directors and I started the following Monday. I was really surprised that this all came out of the jobs fair as I hadn’t really expected that much from going along.

“Backup Technology is a great place to work. It’s been fantastic so far and I’ve already gone on several corporate events including snowboarding at Xscape.”

Company CEO Simon Chappell said: “The success and fruition of the jobs fair is still coming through. It went really well and the quality of candidates was incredibly strong, much more so than we had anticipated.

“We took away 20 CVs and recruited three people – one apprentice and two full-time staff. I can’t thank Nigel Adams enough for putting it all together. It was quite a gamble as it hadn’t really been done before but it really paid off.

“We’ve been to graduate job fairs previously but I think this was the first time we’ve been to one that covered all ages. We’d be more than happy to go along to Selby if the event is repeated next year.”

Source: Selbytimes.co.uk, Saturday 29th October 2011