If you're looking for work, there's now a new service aimed at giving local people from the five Host Boroughs access to jobs and business opportunities created by the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
The new scheme, called BOOST, was launched at the Careers and Jobs Live exhibition at the ExCeL Centre on 25 and 26 March. Almost two thousand people took advantage of the opportunity to register.
The exhibition stand offered residents in the host boroughs a chance to find out first-hand how the London Games are transforming the capital, and to learn about the job opportunities that will be created and how they can get a job on the Games.
How can I register?
If you would like to register for the scheme or find out more, you can:
What kind of work is available?
As well as up to 9,000 construction jobs at peak, staff will also be required for:
- catering
- landscaping
- site security
- project management
- administration and clerical roles.
There will be opportunities for professional, skilled and unskilled staff.
Closer to 2012 there will also be vacancies in hospitality, media, IT and events management.
There will also be opportunities for work on other regeneration programmes across East and South East London.
Training, volunteer and business opportunities
Where appropriate, BOOST will provide training to help residents to gain new skills directly linked to the jobs that are being created.
BOOST offers information on volunteering opportunities during the Games themselves, and details of a new pre-volunteering programme.
BOOST is also supporting local businesses to ensure they have the best possible chance to benefit from opportunities that are opening up.
About the scheme
BOOST has been set up by the five Host Boroughs and the London Development Agency with support from:
- Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)
- London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)
- Job Centre Plus and others.
It will work with residents and businesses in the five boroughs to support them in getting the best possible chance to compete for jobs and for business contracts.
Already, the first local residents have been placed into work on the Olympic Park site through BOOST. And BOOST is working with the ODA and their contractors as they prepare to recruit larger numbers of staff later this year.
Long-term benefits of the Games
Cllr Roberts said: "The support by London boroughs for the 2012 bid was driven by our determination to bring long-term benefits for residents and businesses – in the five host boroughs as well as London as a whole.
"The level of interest shown by local residents in jobs connected with the 2012 Games underlines how important it is that local councils take the lead, in partnership with the LDA and Olympic agencies, in offering practical help for residents and businesses to get access to the opportunities that the Games will create for London."
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27 March 2007