Employers

The good news for employers is that Skillsmatch is not a profit-making or fee charging service. All our services are totally free and despite this, there is no compromise in the range of services we can offer, many of which could be expected from the very best commercial agencies.

We handle a wide range of vacancies, we will not oversell or keep you waiting for updates on your vacancies, and if we cannot source candidates for any reason, we will tell you immediately. Thankfully, however, we pride ourselves on filling almost all vacancies we are asked to handle.

We can work in exactly the way you would like us to. In addition to the assistance our experienced job matching team can offer, we can also test candidates prior to sending them to you. We have online testing facilities to test many different disciplines and also a small range of psychometric tests which are carried out by a registered licensed tester. We always ensure that candidates we send have the right skills, attitude and reliability to match with your expectations, and can offer interview facilities and free press advertising if required.

Skillsmatch is able to offer a range of further benefits including:

• free press advertising (where appropriate)
• a fully equipped call centre to screen advert responses
• interview facilities
• a venue for open days

For an informal discussion about how Skillsmatch can work with you, please contact Andre Burwood on 020 7364 0611 or email skillsmatch@towerhamlets.gov.uk

To submit a vacancy for the team to handle for you:

• complete a job description form (Word, 34k)
• email  the completed form to skillsmatch@towerhamlets.gov.uk or fax it to us on 020 7364 3726
• OR if you have already produced your own job description and person specification, please email or fax this instead.

Please ensure your information contains all the skill requirements you have, as well as details relating to job location, hours, salary and holiday entitlements, the more details we have the easier it will be to match to your vacancy.

Any additional information on your company/organisation is always helpful, so web addresses or information links will provide both ourselves and prospective applicants with good background information.

Once we have received your vacancy we will appoint a placement officer who will be your main point of contact and he/she will email or call to introduce themselves to you and arrange to visit at your premises.

Download the Skillsmatch annual report April 2008 – March 2009 (pdf 3MB) for more in-depth details.