RECRUIT FOR SPOUSES



NATIONAL businesses are being invited to support the British Forces and their families, through the not-for-profit organisation, Recruit For Spouses, which launched on 17th January 2012.

Recruit For Spouses has been set up to bridge the gap between national employers and a growing band of service spouses who are seeking to re-enter the workplace, after subjugating their careers due to their partners’ numerous postings and frequent deployment.

Recruit For Spouses
The company has benefited from funding and support from the Women’s Section of the Royal British Legion and the web development skills of international digital agency, STEAK.

The Wiltshire based founder, Heledd Kendrick (herself an Army spouse and mother of two young children) who has been developing the concept for over two years, said that it had been;

“a long but worthwhile journey bringing the site to its launch this month”. She continued, “One of the hardest things about being married to a soldier, sailor or airman, is the constant moving around; rendering it almost impossible to find a job. Employers perceive service spouses as being too transient to make a worthwhile contribution to their organisations. However we’re here to prove otherwise – be it short term, contracts, flexi working, job-sharing, full-time employment or virtual (online) work”.

Kendrick will be introducing potential employers to over 400 registered candidates from a diverse background, and who count skills and trades such as accountancy, HR experts, lawyers and PAs among their numbers. STEAK has created a sleek web design, which makes it simple for employers and spouses to register their vacancies and CVs.

A nominal charge will be made to employers (significantly less than most recruitment agencies) and profits from the venture will be ploughed back into service charities, fully embracing the much talked about military covenant.

Recruit for Spouses already has partnered with both British Telecom, Siemens and Golly Slater providing a range of opportunities for service wives and has established a meaningful dialogues with the regional Chambers of Commerce, resulting in the North East Chamber of Commerce advocating the initiative to their 4000 members.

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For further information on Recruit For Spouses, please contact:

Heledd Kendrick, Founder


info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Recruit For Spouses

So, this bird couldn't get a job so she made one up.

What's up with working in the mess or the naafi ?

Originally Posted by PR_Totty

RECRUIT FOR SPOUSES



NATIONAL businesses are being invited to support the British Forces and their families, through the not-for-profit organisation, Recruit For Spouses, which launched on 17th January 2012.

Recruit For Spouses has been set up to bridge the gap between national employers and a growing band of service spouses who are seeking to re-enter the workplace, after subjugating their careers due to their partners’ numerous postings and frequent deployment.

Recruit For Spouses
The company has benefited from funding and support from the Women’s Section of the Royal British Legion and the web development skills of international digital agency, STEAK.

The Wiltshire based founder, Heledd Kendrick (herself an Army spouse and mother of two young children) who has been developing the concept for over two years, said that it had been;

“a long but worthwhile journey bringing the site to its launch this month”. She continued, “One of the hardest things about being married to a soldier, sailor or airman, is the constant moving around; rendering it almost impossible to find a job. Employers perceive service spouses as being too transient to make a worthwhile contribution to their organisations. However we’re here to prove otherwise – be it short term, contracts, flexi working, job-sharing, full-time employment or virtual (online) work”.

Kendrick will be introducing potential employers to over 400 registered candidates from a diverse background, and who count skills and trades such as accountancy, HR experts, lawyers and PAs among their numbers. STEAK has created a sleek web design, which makes it simple for employers and spouses to register their vacancies and CVs.

A nominal charge will be made to employers (significantly less than most recruitment agencies) and profits from the venture will be ploughed back into service charities, fully embracing the much talked about military covenant.

Recruit for Spouses already has partnered with both British Telecom, Siemens and Golly Slater providing a range of opportunities for service wives and has established a meaningful dialogues with the regional Chambers of Commerce, resulting in the North East Chamber of Commerce advocating the initiative to their 4000 members.

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For further information on Recruit For Spouses, please contact:

Heledd Kendrick, Founder


info@recruitforspouses.co.uk

Recruit For Spouses

Will you be signing up?

This is a great initiative! Thank you and good on you.

One presumes that the Directors of said fine organisation will be offered a small renumeration for their services? Care to share exactly who the Directors are and what this renumeration - if any - will be?

Am I correct this is just for women......be careful not to get caught up in the Discrimination Act, and good for you the spouses are forgotten about quite a lot.....keep up the good work

Originally Posted by Goody1964

Am I correct this is just for women......be careful not to get caught up in the Discrimination Act, and good for you the spouses are forgotten about quite a lot.....keep up the good work

It's not me - it's another wife but it's for male and female spouses not just the ladies.

If, or when, I need PAYE work then I would sign up.

For self employed spouses there is: Follow The Flag

Follow The Flag – Independent businesses run by Forces Families

With cuts and freezes galore the pressure on the military spouse to find work to supplement the increased cost of living will become significant in the future. Single income families will become a luxury that many can ill afford.

Originally Posted by PR_Totty

With cuts and freezes galore the pressure on the military spouse to find work to supplement the increased cost of living will become significant in the future. Single income families will become a luxury that many can ill afford.

You're out of touch luvvy, they became that decades ago.

Originally Posted by fairmaidofperth

Will you be signing up?

Snigger

Originally Posted by polar69

You're out of touch luvvy, they became that decades ago.

Of course, and perhaps this should have been done a long time ago. It's not going to get less important and the situation isn't likely to improve.