New Skills

Citizens Advice offers you a page with a full list of your rights at work, comprising from basic rights and contracts, to holiday pay, sick pay, parental rights, flexible working and agency workers. Visit the website to find available all of this information and more.

Marie Curie provides useful guides to individuals about their rights, benefits and entitlements as well as helpful information about the main state benefits and entitlements available to people who are ill or disabled.

At Age UK you can learn all about pensions to support you plan for retirement and better understand pensions and annuities. There are services to help you understand about state pensions, workplace pensions as well as pension scams to be aware of.

When you retire you'll need money to support you and to give you a decent standard of living. Most people get a State Pension but it's also a good idea to top this up if you can with your own pension, to make sure you'll have enough money to see you through your retirement.

Find out about the different ways you can save for your pension, how to get started and what to think about when you're getting near to retirement.

Head to the the money advice service website, to get information and advice about retirement, the types of pensions, what to do with your savings for retirement, how to best use your pensions pot and how to manage your money and future effectively.

The money advice service gives you free and impartial advice on such important matters.

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) works to make pensions accessible and understandable for everyone. We provide independent and impartial information and guidance about pensions, free of charge, to members of the public. You will be advised by pensions specialists, supported by hundreds of expert volunteer advisers across the UK, who have many years experience working in the pensions industry. They give their time and expertise for free to help others with their pensions.

We recruit permanent and temporary staff for a full range of business support and executive roles starting at graduate entry through to executives.

We do things differently. We cal it Matching Dynamics and it's made us the leading consultancy for recruiting business executive and support staff. The ability to match people to jobs is an art no computer can manage. This is why we rely on the people skills and experience of our consultants.

For the leading temporary jobs in London we have a bank of first-rate candidates available for short, contract or long term bookings. With so many different temp agencies in London it can be difficult to pick the right one, one which guarantees top staff who will do the job, hit the ground running and never let you down. We are so sure of our service that should you not be happy in the first three hours, you will not be charged and a replacement will be sent.

Temporary-to-hire staffing gives you the unique option to evaluate an employee’s performance on-site before making a final hiring decision—ensuring the new employee is a good fit with co-workers, company culture, and day-to-day responsibilities.

We’ll alleviate the administrative burden of recruiting, evaluating, screening, and interviewing full-time employees by providing you with highly qualified candidates. Together, we’ll establish an agreed-upon time frame for you to evaluate each candidate on-the-job, and we will retain the individual on our payroll during that time

The flexibility, experience, skills and expertise of temporary or a contingency work force can create a positive impact on organisations looking for short-term resources and specialist skills to transform their business or department.

Here at Connections - The Recruitment Specialist, we pride ourselves on being able to supply niche temporary and contingency workers in the current competitive market place.

Our database is constantly updated with new to the market personnel all of whom have been:

• Fully interviewed, assessed and referenced checked
• Are usually overqualified, bringing tremendous experience
• Can provide added value to your business
• Offer short-term expertise
• Start within a day, with minimum recruitment and termination formalities
• Will transfer skills which remain long after they have left
• Fully AWR compliant and eligibility to work in the UK checked

Tiger Recruitment specialises in matching exceptional support staff to top businesses and private individuals. With five distinct divisions – Business Support, Virtual, Private, Hospitality and Platinum – we recruit for a wide range of positions around the world including personal assistants, executive assistants, administrative assistants and many more. Our expert consultants only work with high-calibre individuals who offer outstanding business and private support, ensuring that it’s a perfect match every time.

Hays is one of the leading global specialist recruitment group and the market leader in the UK and Australia. They are concentrated in recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people across a wide range of specialized industries and professions. They operate across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. They are passionate about connecting candidates with the right job for them. 

Agency Central Limited is an innovative company providing recruitment services to recruitment agencies, employers and of course candidates. Agency Central is helping recruitment agencies to do their job - because they are a great way for businesses to find the right employees and for people to find their perfect job, whether that be permanent, temporary, or a headhunted position they don't even know about yet! Their website is created specifically to be the easiest possible way of connecting these two parties - which is underlined by the fact that it's now used by around 400 employers and 5000 candidates every single day.    

Prime Appointments started business in August 1992. Our success is built upon the experience and expertise of the people who work for us, and our principle of only selecting the most relevant candidates for our clients.

With our new, purpose built head office in Witham, our independent recruitment agency is still overseen by Managing Director Robyn Holmes, who opened the agency back in 1992. With 7 divisions and a team of 30+ we recruit for a diverse client base, across Essex, Suffolk and beyond. We provide consistent management of your temporary workforce and seamless recruitment of your permanent staff, enabling you to concentrate on your core business.

GBN Kiloforce Ltd is part of the The GBN Group, one of Colchester’s largest Independently owned Recruitment Agencies.

The Group was established in February 1989 by David Balfour FIRP. Originally from the West Coast of Scotland, David spent 8 years in the Army before leaving in 1987 having achieved the rank of Captain. The company has since expanded into one of the largest suppliers of temporary and permanent staff in this area.