Peterborough Job Centre Plus in collaboration with Peterborough For Jobs and Movement to Work.
Meet The Team
Anthony Dawson
Partnership Manager for Peterborough and Wisbech Jobcentre
Alison Cotton
Lead on the Peterborough For Jobs
Anna Sosnowska
Employer Advisor / Account Manager
Penelope Wood
Employer Advisor / Account Manager
Rita Joshi-Boparai
Employer Advisor / Account Manager
Peterborough For Jobs
In the summer of 2022, we engaged with our local MP – Paul Bristow to launch the “Peterborough For Jobs” campaign.
Our aim is to reach out and invite local employers to actively engage their social responsibility and work with us to share whatever resources they may have to assist with employment barriers such as:
- Employability skills
- Social skills
- Interview practice and mock interviews.
- Confidence building
- Offers of work placements / mentoring
- Apprenticeships
- Job opportunities
- Facilitate events or attend our job fairs.
Organisations Involved
Sheena
Connor
Feshtah
Workshops
We have been running some fantastic workshops in collaboration with both Cross Keys Homes and Anglian Water with the Co-op also joining us recently. We have held one-week workshops for groups of 6-10 people at a time at Peterborough City College who kindly donate us a space for this. We hold a mini career event on the Friday too which has been supported fantastically by a wide range of local employers and support organisations.
Following on from this week of support we then offer, those who want to do so, a one-week placement at our Jobcentre under the banner of Movement To Work. We give them projects, revisit job seeking skills and we finish with creating the short video introductions you are looking at on this page today. They are then able to use this experience on their C.Vs and talk about real life actions when being interviewed. We hope you like this pilot idea and perhaps have seen an individual you would consider making an interview offer to.
