FRS Managing Director, Graham Brown, said "We are delighted to reach this milestone  -especially as many recruitment consultancies have struggled in the recent economic climate". Brown went on to say "it is the perfect way to round off  our 10th anniversary celebrations - which will also see the opening of further new offices and a new website too meet the needs of both clients and candidates as the most recent round of Military job-shedding starts to impact ". The Cambridgeshire based Forces Recruitment Services network has bucked the trend - opening 10 new offices during  2011 to b

[CLICK 'CONTINUE READING TO WATCH THE VIDEO] teams from some of the country’s leading employers are set to battle it out to become the ‘apprentice team of year’ in a new two-month challenge launched at Dorney Lake yesterday. The Brathay Apprentice Challenge will pit eight teams of apprentices against each other in a range of challenges designed to test young people’s business acumen, team work and even physical endurance. Continue reading “GB JUNIOR ROWERS LAUNCH CONTEST FOR ‘APPRENTICE TEAM OF THE YEAR’ AT DORNEY LAKE” »

On 29th March 2012, the British Forces Resettlement Services, known as BFRS, will hold their fifth Career Transition Event in Catterick. The second round of redundancies announced by the Ministry of Defence will result in 4,200 job cuts as a result of the 2010 government Strategic Defence and Security Review. This event is being held to help service leavers and those who will be leaving imminently find a new career on Civvy Street. Jo Pickard, BFRS Events Manager, comments: “The event gives Service leavers a head-start in making the transition back to civilian life. BFRS aims to help those connected to the Forces understand their options, identify their skills and make themselves as attractive as possible for their next steps into civilian life.” With National Grid as the event’s corporate sponsor the event is being supported by Hambleton and Richmondshire District Council. Local MP, Julian Smith has confirmed his attendance, and with the Northern Echo and BFBS Radio as media partners, it is anticipated that the event will

Most people believe in justice: in that wrongdoing must be punished and that good deeds should somehow be rewarded. So what happens to a person when that ‘cosmic’ law is  broken and the system collapses? Bill Shaw’s account of his wrongful arrest is a record of his survival in three of  Afghanistan’s most notorious prisons whilst awaiting trial. What is incredible is that Shaw never even had the certainty of light at the end of the tunnel. Seemingly, never given a straight answer Shaw had little or no idea when his court case would be heard and whether it would be dealt with to anywhere near the professional standards of the British justice system.

SkillsActive, the sector skills council for active learning and leisure, is organising a special employment and training fair for veterans those looking to leave the Armed Services. The event offers much needed support to the Armed Forces as the Ministry of Defence has this week announced 4,200 job cuts in a second round of Armed Forces redundancies. The Fair, to be held at Surrey Sports Park, in Guildford, Surrey, will be held on Thursday 8 March 2012, marking the start of SkillsActive’s Change Gear programme. The Change Gear Programme is designed to offer specific career change support to ensure those leaving the Services are empowered to make informed decisions about the opportunities available to them in the sport, health and fitness, outdoors, play work, health and beauty, and caravans industries.

The job market is tough right now. In fact, it’s always been tough and it always will be. What you need is a reputable expert on the matter to help you to get through it. Recruitment Agencies can help. You may well have spent the best part of your adult life in the Forces. This is no bad thing but it will mean, particularly if you joined up straight from school, that you have little or no experience of finding a job. Fortunately, recruitment agencies can help to give you the best possible chance in the job market, that even on a good day, can be tough. Recruitment agencies literally represent you in the job market. Normally a candidate would approach them with his or her CV for an initial assessment and some idea of the type of jobs or sectors they’d like to work in or feel that they would be best su

14 Days to the transatlantic row - Funds raised to date: £509,750! Row2recovery, (a bold new project to raise money for Help for Heroes, the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) and ABF – The soldiers' Charity) raised in excess of £100,000 at spectacular London dinner attended by over 350 guests at the Royal Horticultural Society on November 14. The London fundraising dinner was specifically timed to give supporters of Row2Recovery a chance to bid farewell to the guys as well as to raise more funds for this worthy cause. Hosted by charismatic TV Historian Dan Snow, guests were entertained by British Paralympic heroine Baroness Tanni Grey-Thomson, DBE and Chairman of England Cricket Selectors, Geoff Miller, as well as the brave crew taking on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. The guests took part in a live silent auction during a sumptuous three course dinner washed down with Talisker Whisky. The dinner, supported by the Salamanca Group, was a resounding success for the charity and the party continued late into the night. Row2Recovery is the brainchild of three former British Army commanders who trained together at Sandhurst and saw extensive combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ed Janvrin, Alex Mackenzie and Tony Harris witnessed friends and comrades sustain life-changing injuries, while Tony lost his left leg when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated under his vehicle in May 2009. Continue reading “The Injured Soldiers’ Atlantic Rowing Challenge” »

RFA Lyme Bay, currently operating in support of four minehunters based in Bahrain, was recently visited by the head of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

British soldiers marked a security success this weekend by facilitating a district governor's shura - a traditional Afghan public meeting - in the previously troubled town of Showal.