Recruitment

Jola has partnered with local universities to create placement scheme that develops young salespeople in their sandwich year at university.

BT is looking for 1,000 new recruits to fill its new Birmingham office, which will act as the company’s first regional hub site to open outside of London.

Verastar has recorded a record number of candidates to its graduate programme, with 28 recruits starting across August and September and a further 12 sales graduates set to join in January.

Virgin Media O2 has created 300 Field Engineer roles, including 100 apprenticeships, to provide jobs for digitally native young people looking for positions in technology and telecommunications.

Mission Labs, which was acquired by Gamma earlier this year, has set scale up targets for the next 12 months as it plans to double its headcount to over 200 employees and move to a new headquarters in Manchester.

Cloud Specialist Vapour has added five new recruits to support its goal of becoming a £7m business by the end of the 2021 financial year. 

The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals (ITP) has joined forces with fibre provider Vorboss to create a recruitment drive that will help readdress gender disparity in the tech industry and bridge the digital skills gap.

There’s no doubt that Brexit is impacting the UK hiring market as a lack of li