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News Release from: UK Resource Centre for Women in SET
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Team on 27 September 2007
Website offers flexible engineering jobs
Senior level job seekers can register their CV, look for vacancies on the jobs board or find a potential job-share partner via a national job-share register.
Science, engineering and IT firms offering job share, part time and flexible working opportunities can get free use of a web-based recruitment service launched today The service is also free to job seekers Employers can enter a profile of the company, upload their latest vacancies, including interim management posts, onto the jobs board and search the database for suitable candidates
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Senior level job seekers can register their CV, look for vacancies on the jobs board or find a potential job-share partner via a national job-share register.
The site has freely available case studies and examples of best practice and both employers and individuals have access to information about the advantages of flexible working and how it can be implemented.
Although Jobshare-uk covers all sectors nationwide, it has a specialist recruitment consultant for science, engineering and technology, funded by the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC).
The UKRC offers a wide range of support to women who want to return to work following a career break or to embark on a career in the sector, and to science and engineering employers.
However, demand for more flexible working opportunities comes increasingly from men and the new recruitment service caters for both sexes.
Jobshare-uk is run by recruitment agency Equals One, which specialises in flexible working, in partnership with the UKRC and the work-life balance charity Working Families.
The venture is supported by Yorkshire Forward, and the Department of Communities and Local Government Quality Part-Time Work Fund.
Annette Williams, Director of the UKRC, said, "Flexible working is vital to attract more women into science, engineering and IT and to encourage those who have left the sector to return".
"Some science and engineering employers are offering part time and flexible working opportunities but many more are needed".
"This new service will support employers which need skilled staff and help individual talented, highly-qualified women to use their specialist skills and experience".
Vivienne Duke said.
"Web technology has enabled us to roll out nationally seven years of experience in advising employers and potential employees on job share and other flexible working possibilities".
The service will remain free to job seekers and is free to employers until April 2008.
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