National Providers

A number of national employers and training organisations provide opportunities in the local area. The following list provides further website links for some companies who may be offering vacancies in the Derby and Derbyshire area.

For details of other companies to apply to please visit www.connexions-derbyshire.org/purplepages or visit www.jobcentreplus.org.uk. You can also contact the Connexions Derbyshire helpline on 0800 269 468 or see your Connexions Personal Adviser at your local Connexions centre.

Arcadia Group is the UK's largest clothing retailer, with eight brands - Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit, TOPSHOP, TOPMAN and Wallis.

• The company offers a Retail Management Trainee Programme for students who have achieved NVQ 3 level or above at various locations nationwide.

Armed Forces

• Army
• RAF
• Royal Navy

• Retail

• Care
• Hospitality and catering
• Housekeeping

• Heating and ventilating engineering
• Air conditioning engineering
• Refrigeration engineering
• Plumbing

• Engineering

• Distribution and warehousing operations
• Customer service
• Telephone selling (Level 2 only)
• Selling (Level 3 only)
• Administration
• Retail operations

• Automotive engineering, ranging from paint technician to body repair and administration
• Engineering
• Customer service

The Civil Service is one of the UK's largest employers. Its departments work with the government to formulate policies, while their agencies deliver them. Civil servants at every level, carrying out work in all kinds of areas - from advising on pensions, investigating fraud or formulating the policy that drives nursery education.

Departments will usually recruit through local newspapers, job centres and on their own department websites.

• Offer a range of apprenticeships in construction

• Retail

• The majority of apprentices in the UK are recruited into the Applications Delivery organisation (AD) or the Information Technology Outsourcing organisation (ITO).

Locations: Derby, Sheffield , Tamworth

EMAS will be introducing a Student Paramedic Programme. Although details are currently being finalised, the programme will be for a period of two years and consist of a combination of classroom learning and practical, ‘on the job’ training. Those who pass the training course will become fully qualified to Paramedic level.

Offer a range of apprenticeships in building services engineering, for example:

• Plumbing
• Electrical engineering
• Maintenance engineering
• Heating & ventilation engineering

• Retail

• Retail

• Engineering – gas & electrical

• Retail

The National Health Service offers more than 300 different careers, related to a wide range of interests, skills or qualifications.

• Customer service
• Hospitality
• Management
• Butchery
• Retail
• Team leading
• Business administration
• Warehousing & distribution

Recruit school and college leavers who have achieved NVQ 3 level onto their HEADstart programmes into

• Tax
• Assurance
• Advisory

• Motor vehicle fitting operations

• Hairdressing

For individuals under the age of 18, contact your local salon, our website is updated with current vacancies: www.toniandguy.co.uk or contact Graham Pepper on graham.pepper@mascolo.co.uk