Published 12.11.2011
Welcome to your new social recruitment website, and the first to be fully interactive throughout the UK as a social recruitment website. If you have already registered please head off to the your required pages, and enjoy the new changes we have made and and experience a new way to connect to employers.
Published 22.10.2011
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The website will be finished within the next two to three weeks and during this time of what I aim to achieve for others to use as a service, I have managed to recieve my first business award. The award was presented to CV-italent Limited at St Mary's Chambers 19th October 2011 for " Valley At Work Special Recognition" |
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Published 10.09.2011
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The CV-iTalent website will be going through some fantastic new changes over the coming few weeks and will help registered users and also employers and agencies get more than was expected. Due to the changes you will have better tools, faster ways of communicating and a simpler solution to your searching needs. Please keep watching and we hope to have the modifications in place as soon as we can to get you into a position you have been waiting for. |
Published 16.08.2011
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The future is looking bright, the future is looking at working with the best. |
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Published 08.06.2011
Lancashire Evening Post, Leyland Guardian Adam Kilshaw hopes his website will help unemployed people, including ex-soldiers, find work
Former soldier Adam Kilshaw knows only too well how difficult it can be for ex-servicemen and women to find a job after leaving the Forces.
Adam was medically discharged from the Army after 12 years in 2007, after suffering a head injury when he was assaulted in Yorkshire.
Adam, who had served in Iraq, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and Germany, then spent 19 months looking for work before South Ribble Council gave him a chance and took him on in their IT department.
And now the former sergeant with 28 Engineer Regiment is using his computing skills to help others in need, by setting up a jobs website aimed at ex-military personnel looking for new opportunities.
Dad-of-two Adam, 35, said: “At the moment, lots of soldiers coming out of the Army are struggling to find work. They don't get any help from the MoD (Ministry of Defence).
“I was medically discharged in 2007.
“I had lost a £30,000 a year job and was married with two kids and rent to pay.
“I went to over 30 interviews in the year and seven months I was unemployed, and was told I had a lack of commercial experience.
“But how could I get that experience when I'd been in the Army for 12 years?
“I kept pushing on and eventually the council in Leyland offered me a temporary job on a trial basis as an IT technician, which later became full-time.
“There is due to be a big amount of military personnel getting their brown letters soon and they might also find it difficult to get work like I did.”
The free website is also designed to help students and anyone else who may be struggling to find work, by allowing them to upload their CVs and search for employers.
Adam, who works at the Civic Centre in Leyland, also wants to encourage businesses and employment agencies to place vacancies on there and search for candidates.
He is even looking at adding video, audio and sign language facilities as the website grows, to help people with additional needs who are looking for work.
Adam, who lives in Bacup with wife Doreen, said: “There is nothing else like this out there at the moment.
“It's not just for soldiers but also for students due to leave university or college, to get their information out there.”
Published 11.05.2011
CV-iTalent has been in an upgrading process for the past few weeks and we can now present to you a better more simplified website for you and your portfolio. Over the next coming weeks, the website will being going through some fantastic new changes that I cant wait to give over to you to use and help with the process of finding work and getting the advice that you have been searching for.
We are also now helping the OurLocalHeroes Foundation charity with their cause, please take a few minutes to visit their website and maybe help in supporting the hard work that has been and is still being pushed into creating a better and more caring society.
Published 10.02.2011
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, an annual opportunity to raise the profile of apprenticeships. The week is supported by over 450 events and activities run by high profile employers, colleges, learning providers and apprentices themselves.
Apprentices are employees who earn a wage and work alongside experienced staff in businesses to gain job-specific skills. Off the job, usually on a day-release basis, apprentices receive training to work towards nationally recognised qualifications.
Apprenticeships can take between one and four years to complete depending on the level of Apprenticeship, the apprentices' ability and the industry sector.
There are more than 85,000 employers offering apprenticeships in England in 130,000 locations, and in 200 job roles.
Published 10.02.2011
An IT technician and ex-soldier who spent almost two years searching for a job has launched a website to help people into work. Adam Kilshaw, 36, served for 12 years in the Royal Engineers before being given a medical discharge after he was attacked in a Kent pub, leaving him with head injuries. But despite being a skilled IT worker, it took the dad-of-two, from Bacup, nearly two years to find a civilian job. He said employers were put off by his military background and he found it difficult to demonstrate his skills.
That led Adam, who served in Northern Ireland and Germany, to launch his CV-iTalent website, which allows people with computer skills to showcase their skills and work online to impress prospective employers.
Adam said: “When I was attacked, I swallowed my tongue and was knocked unconscious, and I had to be medically discharged from the army.
"It was really tough because I had a family, I was seeing a psychiatrist and I could not find a job.
“My dad was in IT and I had done some courses so I tried to follow that route but I think I went to about 20 or 30 interviews before finally getting a job. “They did not seem to recognise my qualifications or think much of my CV and it was really, really depressing.”
Finally in March 2009, almost two years after leaving the Royal Engineers, Adam landed a job in technical support at South Ribble Council in Leyland. But his experience inspired him to design and build CV-iTalent, which allows users to upload their work and point employers towards their skills and experience. Adam said: “The website was inspired by my own struggle and I want to give people in a similar situation a chance.
“I am not making any money from it at the moment. I just want to help people out.”
Published 09.10.2010
The times have changed so quick and much quicker than we realise.
Published 09.10.2010
What Is an RSS feed, well let us explain,
