Free funding for new staff for your creative business


Future Jobs Fund

If you’re growing your business, or bouncing back after the recession, you could probably do with an extra pair of helping hands right now.

The Future Jobs Fund programme is great scheme to bring new talent into your organisation.  It’s a government scheme to create 17,000 jobs for 18-24 years old which provides 100% funding for your business to recruit a young person for 6 months, working 25 hours a week at the National Minimum Wage.  To recruit a full time person or to pay a higher salary, just pay your own top-up.

Who can benefit

Digital Consultant is working with Gecko Programmes to create jobs in the East Midlands, West Midlands and South West for creative, digital and cultural businesses.  We will help you recruit if your business is in:

- Advertising
- Computer games
- Design
- Events
- Fashion design
- Product and furniture design
- Film and television
- Heritage
- Jewellery and antiques
- Marketing and promotion
- Music – promotions, studios and manufacture
- Performing and visual arts
- Radio
- Video production
- Web and software development

For us to help, you need to have a registered office in:

- East Midlands (see map)
- West Midlands (see map)
- South West – (ONLY the counties of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bath and Bristol)

How we can help you recruit

Gecko will manage all of your recruitment working with the Job Centre and our existing database, or helping you to recruit from your own network.  If you are not established as a business (e.g. a voluntary group), Gecko may also be able to employ someone on your behalf.

Future Jobs Fund is not an apprenticeship scheme – you have no obligation to offer training, but if you want to skill your new employee, Gecko Programmes can offer advice about accessing Train To Gain and other funding for skills.

We can help you hire someone for any kind of job, including graduate or specialist roles.  We’ve recently helped to recruit roles for organisations including:

Birmingham Royal Ballet
New Vic Theatre
Aston FM

Start you recruitment

To find out more and get started with your recruitment contact:

Susi O’Neill, Digital Consultant tel: 07981 222799
Email:  susi@digitalconsultant.co.uk

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Digital Consultant links for January 31st through February 3rd

These are my links for January 31st through February 3rd:

  • TRIZ – A powerful methodology for creative problem-solving – TRIZ is a technique of applying 40 different parameter queries to a problem which is used extensively by engineers. It's a technique that could, at some levels, apply to business process, e.g. considering segmentation, 'nesting' (store within a store), or local variations.
  • Six Ways to Find Social Media Talent – Some savvy words from Harvard Business Review on recruiting social media talent – that elusive combination between deep social media skills and fit with advancing your business objectives – which involves, basically, empowering other employees to recruit using social media tools in those spaces.
  • WikiLeaks whistleblower site in temporary shutdown – Sad news for open democracy: WikiLeaks, anonymous uncensored site closed due to lack of funds. The price of 'open information' is, it seems, to high.
  • Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online – Great article featuring facts & figures on how people are consuming video content online. As cable TV and web video has increased overall consumption, the attention span of video duration and spread of number of views has shifted downwards, creating a mass divide between amateur and professional content. There is a rise in niche content, but a decrease in the likelihood of having a 'hit' which could come from either user-generated or professional content.
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