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Helping you into work

If you are looking for work then this section sets out a wide range of services that can provide you with support, including the Council's Job Shops. Click on the tabs to the left to find out more.

The Council is working with key local partners including Jobcentre Plus, employment and skills providers and employers to help more people into sustainable work. Over the next 10 years Barking and Dagenham Council and its partners aim to stimulate the creation of 10,000 new jobs in the borough and to equip local people with the skills needed to compete for them.

The borough is well connected by transport links to areas with a huge number of jobs, including Canary Wharf and the City, Stratford and the new London Gateway Port development in Thurrock.

Recruitment support for businesses

Businesses can reach the widest number of potential recruits and access bespoke free recruitment advice and support, including for apprenticeships, by contacting the Council's Employment and Skills Team. Whether your business needs a single new recruit or wants to work on a major recruitment exercise the team can provide support.

Retailer Evans, based in Vicarage Field Shopping Centre, wanted helped to recruit a single new retail assistant. Jan Smith, Manager commented: “We were really pleased with the service we received from Barking Job Shop. You took away the pressure and hard work and delivered a helpful service and communicated with us every step of the way. We asked and you delivered.”

In October 2012 the team worked to support the opening of a new Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre in Dagenham, leading to almost 60 job offers for borough residents. The employer was supported to hold information sessions, assessment days and interviews in the borough's Barking Learning Centre. Joe McDiarmid, General Manager for Whitbread commented: “Overall we were extremely impressed with the smooth recruitment process, calibre of candidates and the venue.”

Work Clubs

Children Centres in Barking and Dagenham are now providing Work Clubs. Their aim is to help people make the most of local knowledge and resources, to help unemployed people in their communities gain employment.

Are you a student looking for part-time work?

Visit the Student job website to find casual work on a part-time basis in your local area.

Latest opportunities - Tesco

Over the next couple of months Tesco will be advertising vacancies for approximately 300 warehouse team members and up to 150 drivers for their new cold storage distribution depot at Beam Reach (situated alongside the A13 at the Marsh Way interchange and served by bus routes 174 and 287). They will be looking to recruit people from the local areas in both Barking and Dagenham and Havering.

Previous experience of working at a distribution centre is not essential as all training will be provided for warehouse team members. However, driver positions will require a minimum C1+E licence.

The HGV vacancies are open until 18 May 2013.

For all opportunities keep checking the Tesco website and click on 'Working in depot' in the right hand side of the screen for details of vacancies at Dagenham Distribution Centre.