Recruitment

Dami: I started my career as a civil engineer back in my own country Nigeria. Being a civil engineer, I love being part of infrastructural projects in the country. I decided to embark on a journey to the United Kingdom to come and study construction project management. But along the line I faced a lot of challenges. Challenges of like not having UK experience for construction. 

Heidi: We have a massive skill shortage at the moment. Trying to reach out. So we can't use traditional or just rely on traditional uh recruitment methods. So to use people like the Employment Hub to reach out and go to these other candidates and increase our talent pool is really important to us. 

Dami: I reached out to Calderdale Employment Hub and I was allocated the support officer which is Evangeline Whiteley. 

Evie: I recognised the potential that you had you've spent a long time studying getting the qualifications that you've got.

Dami: She reached out to me that there is this company interested in my CV when she tended my CV for them and we started the interview process. She did some interview prep with me. 

Evie: Once I'd seen your qualifications and the kind of experience that you had, I sent that CV on to my colleague who works with local businesses in Calderdale. He had a connection with BAM said, you know, why don't we send my CV off to BAM, see if they've got any opportunities. And they came back and said, yeah!

Heidi: We jumped at the opportunity. We want to interview her. The Employment Hub were identified in our local needs analysis as an organisation stakeholder that we wanted to work with to improve the local communities and then they've also come directly to us in the case of Dami with the CVs looking for experience from our sites. If it wasn't for that support was from the Employment Hub I don't think I would got a job because the support really helps me to know what is required. They assist in training, they assist with support and they are very, very good.