With the highest unemployment rate in the country, the North East can be a hard place to find work and young people without experience are finding the struggle particularly difficult. Yet there are signs of hope if you know where to look. Local recruitment and training experts esg. help unemployed people to find work, and hundreds of young people to become apprentices in retail, business, hospitality and other sectors, enabling them to ‘learn as they earn’.

Northern based recruitment company Castleview Recruitment has been working with national employment and skills provider esg. to deliver an innovative programme called Skills Support for the Unemployed, designed to help jobseekers find work through sector-focused training.

Coventry man Daniel had been a depot operator for 12 years, when his job came to an end when he was made redundant. This sudden switch from being in a stable job to having no work really shocked him, and this played a big part in Daniel drinking more heavily to cope with this.

Back to work specialists esg have helped 25 of their clients registered at the Coventry office to find employment and solved the recruitment needs of Leekes, a new department store which opened on 22 September 2012.