Employer support
Kirklees Employment and Skills are here to help businesses access the workforce they require to grow and succeed. Our free service offers tailored support to suit your business needs and ensure that you and your business can thrive.
We can help support you in these areas:
Recruitment support
We work with you to source enthusiastic and diverse candidates to fill your current, or upcoming vacancies.
We can connect you with a work-ready, supply of local talent all motivated to find and sustain employment. We have relationships with candidates who have completed relevant pre-employment training and are ready to join your business in roles you need to fill. We can also help you review your current recruitment practices and identify potential skill gaps.
We can aso support you to explore apprenticeship recruitment, help you find suitable candidates, identifying funding opportunities and find suitable training and qualifications to match the skills you need. Find out more at
Upskilling support
We will work with you to identify what future skills you may need within your business. This could be via an apprenticeship qualification, alternative training routes or other areas of personal development.
We can source suitable courses and qualifications to upskill your current staff, identify opportunities and support both the learners and leaders within your teams. We can also help you access funding opportunities by highlighting grants which may be available to you, as you look to grow your teams' skills and achieve your ambitions.
Inclusive recruitment practices
We will work with you to ensure you develop inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring that your recruitment processes actively reduce the potential for unconscious bias or discrimination.
We can work with you to help you achieve your social value ambitions, allowing you to ensure you consider the wider community impacts when recruiting and developing your workforce.
Partners
- Business Kirklees : a range of targeted support for businesses of all sizes, all sectors, and all stages of development. Whether you would like to start, grow, relocate or invest, they can help.
- C+K : C+K are committed to building relationships with businesses and employers to enable them to successfully work with local cohorts of young people and adults.
Our programmes and funders
Employment and skills programme funders tells you about the funding streams that we use to deliver our projects.
If you are unsure about which support is available, please get in touch and we can advise on the right service to support you.
