Corby has received its second major jobs boost in a week with the news that at least 40 positions are being created at a £2million factory site.

New chilled pastry company Bakeaway Ltd is opening today at the old Parker’s Fine Foods site in Baird Road, on the Willowbrook East industrial estate.

The company already has a contract to supply the Sainsbury’s chilled pastry range and says there is a “promise of many more” jobs to come.

Negotiations are already under way to forge links to the catering and business sections at Tresham College

It follows an announcement on Monday from the Bradford-based firm Advanced Supply Chain which is about to create 80 jobs at a warehouse in Eismann Way, Corby.

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Supermarket chain Morrisons, the only major multiple retailer to operate its own meat processing factories, has struck a deal to acquire a 9,755m² meat processing facility in Winsford, Cheshire from Vion UK.

The site is a fresh pork and lamb retail packing plant which Morrisons said has the capacity to expand into beef and mince products and increase its existing production. This work was previously carried out at a Morrisons-owned site in Bradford and by third party suppliers.

Morrisons said the jobs of all 300-plus staff in Winsford would be safeguarded and that there is potential to increase the size of the workforce as the business grows. The retailer said the acquisition will give it greater capacity as it continues to expand, and more control over the quality of meat products sold in its stores.

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Norfolk, Buckinghamshire and Cornwall are top hotspots for manufacturing growth with all three counties adding over 1,000 factory jobs since 2006 according to the GMB.

Twenty seven UK regions recorded a boom in manufacturing employment the GMB analysis of an ONS population survey showed.

Star English performers included counties more associated with tourism than manufacturing such as Bournemouth and Greenwich. (more…)

Janos Meszaros, Recruitment Consultant at Jenrick IT recently provided the following report on his job market predcitions for 2012 within the security and defence sector:

2012 is going to be a busy year for consultancy companies within the defence and security sector. Their priority will be to continue the battle against Cyber Crime.

As an answer to recent (various organization hacked by the Anonymous Group) and not so recent (Stuxnet attack against an Iranian nuclear reactor) Cyber attacks, the British Government announced last year that they will allocate £650 million of funding to set up a National Cyber Security Programme. Government Agencies will also take a central role to organise the ongoing battle and work closely with commercial organisations.

This busy market has opened up many opportunity’s for jobseekers with strong technical knowledge. The most sought after candidates have strong development experience with C++ in an embedded and/or real-time context in either Linux or Windows environment; also having strong experience in developing multi-threaded applications.

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Now we’ve entered 2012, the year of the London Olympics, many people are asking the question as to whether London 2012 will help provide the boost that the UK economy so desperately needs?

The following article discusses the opinions and results from a number of London business surveys:

Olympics infrastructure provider Cisco found 40% of employees think the London Olympic Games will build a ‘better Britain’, although the survey also found the mood was still ‘negative’ for 51%.

But a separate survey from the CBI and KPMG found 92% of London businesses think the Games will benefit the capital internationally. With opinion divided - especially over the £41 million ‘extra’ being invested in the opening ceremony - can the Olympics provide the boost the UK economy needs? (more…)

The car manufacturing employment enters the new year with positive news that Jaguar Land Rover is to expand its Merseyside plant to create 1,500 jobs, as a recent report reveals:

Jaguar Land Rover is planning to double the size of its Merseyside factory and create 1,500 new jobs in a major boost to the Coalition’s drive to rebalance the economy.

An expansion of the plant - one of the biggest car manufacturing facilities in the UK - comes amid growing worries over a slowdown in UK industry and the prospects of a double dip recession in the wider economy.

JLR’s Land Rover plant in Halewood is at full capacity producing the new Range Rover Evoque and growing the factory will allow the company to keep up with surging demand for its products.

Sources familiar with the situation say the company is exploring plans to double the size of the plant by developing on surrounding land. This will represent an investment of around £100m, although the proposals are thought to be at a relatively early stage.
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According to Jenrick IT (Specialist IT recruiter), 2012 will be a very exciting year in technology development.

Philip Fanthom, Managing Director, commented:

“We will see a continuing trend in technology towards easier to manage and easier to access technology.

Some new releases to look out for will be Tango (Smartphone OS) and Windows 8 from Microsoft, and Android update, Hybrid Cloud services from social media hubs, Ultrabooks from all the main players, a battle of the tablets and of course the much anticipated Apple iTV with AI built in (based on IVR) to replace a remote control.

IVR (interactive voice recognition) will take centre stage with a number of technology devices after the successful launch of iPhone’s Siri.”

Here are the general top technology predictions for 2012:

• Apple iTV
• Smarter TV’s
• Social enterprise and B2B
• Windows 8
• Ultrabooks
• Tablets
• Smartphones
• Smart Wallet
• Hybrid Cloud
• BYOD
• e-government
• Open data

For more detail on technology predictions for 2012, please click on the link below:

• Click here for more detail from leading experts on technology predictions for 2012
  

2012 will see an interconnected web with HTML5, leading a range of diverse and exciting contract and permanent HTML5 job opportunities:

In 2012, HTML5 will be adding support for some really useful and cool APIs that allow one website to connect to another.

For example, Zynga games on Facebook run inside of iframes. Using the new postMessage API these games will be able to communicate within the containing Facebook frame directly. Before HTML5, inter-window communication had to rely on a remote server - or use unreliable hacks.

Another exciting addition is CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing). This will make it much easier for different websites to share information with one another. For example, CORS will enable startups to create photo-editing services that download your photos from Facebook, let you modify them, and then re-upload them - again without having to resort to ugly hacks.

With all of the new semantic information available with HTML5, it will become much easier to create web tools that extract information from web pages. As a result, you can expect to see a plethora of new mashup services, as well as better browser modes (like readers and translators).

Exciting web browsing times ahead - watch this space!!!

If you are a web developer and you are keen to seek a new and exciting challenge, contact Jenrick IT on 01932 245 500 to find out more about the job opportunities currently available for HTML5.

Jenrick IT is assisting a number of organisations in 2012 to devise not only recruitment strategies, but also retention strategies.

Philip Fanthom, Managing Director at Jenrick IT commented:

“If we are to do our job properly as consultants, then it’s only right that we advise our clients on how they can keep hold of their talent as well as add value to talent acquisition.

The more we can understand about the causes of talent attrition, the better placed we can be to offer informed advice”

Attrition and retention seems to be a key focus for companies across the globe for 2012.

A recent report from Forbes.com focuses attention of the top ten reasons why companies lose their top talent, simply click on the link below to view.

• Article at Forbes.com: Top 10 Reasons why large companies fail to keep their best talent

For more information on Recruitment and Retention services, please contact Jenrick IT on 01932245 500.

The demand for web developers has exploded in Q4 as the war for talent really ‘hots up’ in the online and mobile apps space. HTML5 is tipped to be the big area for 2012, with tech ‘big wigs’ like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Zynga all looking to expand.

This is one reason why Jenrick IT is devoting more resources towards HTML5 job opportunities.

HTML5 will allow websites to connect to one another using postMessage API allowing one frame to communicate within another frame (example: Zynga within Facebook) directly and not having to trely on remote server connection.

Something else to look for in 2012 will be CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing). This will make it easier for websites to share information within one another. In one example, Startups will now be able to create photo editing services that download your photos/images direct from your social media pages, let you modify them and re-post them. HTML5 will make it  much easier to extract information from web pages which will enhance services like readers and translators and geolocation, with browsers adopting a more iOS type UI.

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