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Edge Trades Launches

Edge Trades

We are excited to announce the launch of a new offering of the Edge Careers group, Edge Trades, which has been launched due to growing demand for quality led trades & labour recruitment.

With their combined experience and knowledge of trades & labour and the recruitment process, the Edge Trades team are able to provide you with the best possible service.

Working throughout the UK, Edge Trades aim to become the go to recruitment agency for all your candidate and client needs.

This is what Edge Trades’ Manager, Sam Shaw has to say about the launch:

“This is an amazing opportunity for Edge Careers to make our mark in the fast paced and competitive trades & labour sector”

Whilst working UK wide, the Edge Trades team specialise on vacancies in the West Midlands area.

We regularly recruit for the following disciplines:

  • Carpenter
  • Labourer
  • Bricklayer
  • Plumber
  • Cladder
  • Curtain Wall Fixer
  • Electrician
  • Pipe Fitter
  • Painter
  • Plasterer
  • Telehandler

Although we recruit across the whole construction industry, our core sectors are:

  • M&E
  • Fit Out
  • Residential
  • Commercial
  • Civil Engineering
  • Industrial
  • Facilities Management
  • Retail

Follow Edge Trades on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram or join our Facebook group, to stay up to date with the latest news, jobs and competitions.

If you are looking for reliable trades & labour staff to join a construction project then get in touch with Edge Trades on 01527 578 802.

Similarly, if you are a tradesmen looking for work, then get in touch with our consultants at Edge Trades or register your details with us here.

 

Olivia Finn Joins Edge Careers

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

Incorporated into the Edge Careers group is Edge Trades, a team which is solely responsible for providing the highest level of trades & labour recruitment across the UK, to see what they can provide for you click here.

Follow Edge Trades on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and join the Edge Trades Facebook group, to stay up to date with all our latest news, competitions, latest jobs and events.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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January’s Tradesmen Of The Month

Every month at Edge Careers, we present our most dedicated freelancer the Tradesman of the Month prize which consists of an Edge Careers polo shirt and gift of choice as a thank you for their hard work. This month the prestigious prize of Tradesman of the Month goes to Simon an Electrician’s mate.

Simon Tradesman of the Month - January

 

If you are a tradesman looking for a new role, register with us here. You never know, you too could be awared the Tradesman of the Month award!

If you are looking for quality tradesmen, like Simon , to help you with a current project, register your vacancy here or call 01905 770 706.

October worker of the month

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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December’s Tradesman of the Month

Every month at Edge Careers, we present our most dedicated freelancer the Tradesman of the Month prize which consists of an Edge Careers polo shirt and gift of choice as a thank you for their hard work. This month the prestigious prize of Tradesman of the Month goes to Amor an Electrician who has been working with us for 12 months, now.

tradesman of the month - December

 

If you are a tradesman looking for a new role, register with us here. You never know, you too could be awared the Tradesman of the Month award!

If you are looking for quality tradesmen, like Amor, to help you with a current project, register your vacancy here or call 01905 770 706.

October worker of the month

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Construction Job Vacancies

Edge Careers are construction recruitment specialists working on all construction job vacancies within the industry.

We always work to the highest level of recruitment for our candidates and clients so we can become the go to agency for all of their construction needs.

As an agency we work across all sectors within the construction industry, from freelance to permanent and site labourers to chief executives, we work on them all through out the UK and Internationally.

If you are a candidate looking for a new construction job, then get in touch with Edge Careers’ head office on 01905 827207 and you will be put in contact with the recruitment team best suited to your needs or alternatively register your details with us and one of our consultants will give you a call to discuss your job search.

Similarly if you are a client who has construction job vacancies that need filling then contact Edge Careers or register your vacancy with us and one of our experienced consultants will be in touch to discuss the opportunity with you.

To view the latest job vacancies that Edge Careers has to offer then visit our job search page.

 

Construction Job Vacancies

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+  to stay up to date with all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Edge Careers Now Do Power and Energy Recruitment

Edge Careers - Power & Energy

 

Edge Careers are expanding and we are excited to announce that we are opening a Power and Energy Division.

We all need Power and Utilities to lead our everyday lives, all of the services accessed by the UK population are harnessed and delivered by a comprehensive workforce in the Power and Energy sector, which generates and supplies the full spectrum of power and utilities resource for the country.

Encompassing the values which are already instilled in the Edge Careers group, our new Power and Energy division will provide high quality recruitment for candidates and clients, nationally from site staff to chief executives. Our Power and Energy division will be entering a sector that has had millions of pounds of investment over the past few years and Edge Careers are now able to offer our expert services in this sector.

If you work in the power and energy sector and are looking for your next career move, contact Edge Careers and we would be happy to help you with your search. Similarly, if you require staff to work on power and energy projects, get in touch with Edge Careers and our recruitment experts will assist with your requirement.

 

 

Edge Careers Power and Energy

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

www.edgecareers.co.uk

 

Congratulations to Tony Cantwell of Laing O’Rourke who is November’s winner of the Edge Careers Fantasy Football League. Being based in the UAE, we found it difficult to find a prize to send, so instead we have given Tony a £75 gift voucher to spend at his leisure, we hope you enjoy spending your prize.

Tony’s team Swiss Tony’s 11, scored a breathtaking 219 points in the competition’s fourth month.

There has also been a change in the overall lead with Andy Weir’s team, Weirs’s Beards, storming to the top of the overall leaderboard having a total of 953 points.

Selecting your teams is critical going into the busy Christmas break, with the overall leader at the end of the season, winning an incredible trip for two to NEW YORK!

 

Tony Cantwell - Fantasy Football Prize Winner - November

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Please join us in welcoming Sam Shaw to Edge Careers.

As the newest member of the Edge Careers team, Sam joins our thriving Freelance Team as the division’s Labour Manager. Sam brings with her a wealth of experience in both the public sector and private sector. Beginning with a career in administration and sales, Sam then moved onto teaching. With the ability to communicate clearly and build strong relationships, Sam is a key addition to the Freelance Division and the Edge Careers Team.

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment experts.

The majority of our consultants have over 10 years’ continued service within the company, some of which are former construction industry professionals who truly know the industry inside out. We have long standing client relationships spanning over 25 years and a multitude of clients from privately owned regional businesses to large multinational Plc’s, located both within the UK and internationally.

As Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts, we have a wide database of multi-disciplined candidates, from Site Labourers to Board Directors, and no matter which division you speak to, you will have a Key Account Manager providing you with one point of contact throughout the recruitment process. Whether you are a client or a candidate, we’ll make things as simple as possible for both parties. As registered members of the REC, we ensure we always operate in a professional, legal and moral manner.

 

Sam Shaw

 

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

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Edge Careers are excited to announce that we are beginning a partnership with the fantastic charity Kits4Causes.

Edge Careers Kits4Causes

Kits4Causes is a charity based in the United Kingdom that collects unwanted football equipment and distributes it to social development projects around the world.

To date Kits4Causes have sent out over 37,000 football kits across 40 different countries.

Shortly Kits4Causes will begin kit amnesties at Premier League clubs, with the first being at Stoke City’s, Britannia Stadium on Saturday 5th December.

Here is what Kits4Causes had to say about their upcoming amnesty:

Since day one, exactly six years ago this month, we have dreamed of working with professional football clubs to help spread our message, collect kit, and get on board with the K4C ethos. Well, it’s finally happening! On the 5th December 2015 Stoke City will be holding a Kits4Causes amnesty day at their game vs Man City. A big thank you must go to Steve Hunt from the club for leading the organisation of this day. We’ve ordered more wristbands and t-shirts, honed up our tweeting skills, and enlisted volunteers. We now can’t wait for the big day.

This has come about as a result of the initiative of Anwar and Richard at the Football Supports Federation. Together, in our new partnership, we are hoping to host similar events at clubs up and down the county over the coming months and years, so a big thank you must go to them. So there you go. I don’t think anything else can be added on top of that. Some of the biggest news in our short but enjoyable history.

To help this great cause, simply click here to go to the charity’s donation page.

Edge Careers are looking forward to making this a fruitful partnership and hope to provide long standing support for Kits4Causes.

 

Kits4Causes and Edge Careers logos

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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Construction still booming say buyers

Construction Boom
Construction buyers reported the fastest rise in new work for 12 months in October.

The rebound in new order growth was highlighted in the latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI index report which also showed the highest rate of construction job creation for nearly a year.

Commercial building was the main driver of growth as work accelerated sharply.

The figures cast huge doubts on recent GDP figures claiming a construction slowdown is acting as a drag on the UK economy.

The overall index registered 58.8 in October, which was down from 59.9 in September but still well above the 50.0 no-change threshold.

The latest survey marked two-and-a-half years of sustained output growth across the UK construction sector.

Construction companies remain highly upbeat about their prospects for growth over the next 12 months, with more than half (59%) forecasting a rise in business activity and only 7% expecting a decline.

Tim Moore, Senior Economist at Markit and author of the Markit/CIPS Construction PMI, said : “October’s survey indicates that the UK construction sector remains firmly in expansion mode, although commercial building work was the only category to experience faster growth than in September.

“Another relatively buoyant construction PMI reading indicates that the sector remains in rude health.

“Rather than acting as a drag on the economy, as suggested by recent GDP estimates, the sector is continuing to act as an important driving force behind the ongoing UK economic upturn.”

Stefan Friedhoff, Global Corporates managing director for construction at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said: “Optimism continues to be more prevalent than pessimism in the sector.

“The downbeat data from the Office for National Statistics released last week will have jarred some, but others will remain sanguine.

“Looking at recent results from some of construction’s bigger players, there is evidence that operating margins are slowly increasing to their best levels since the recession.

“This is heartening and suggests that the rhetoric around being more selective about work taken on is beginning to translate into improving operating performance.”

This story is by constructionenquirer.com

Chancellor pledges £100bn by 2020 for infrastructure

 

George Osbourne
Chancellor George Osborne will today launch the National Infrastructure Commission and promise to stick to his pledge to spend £100bn in this Parliament for new roads, rail, flood defences and other vital projects.

He will set out plans to ‘get Britain building’, saying that infrastructure will be at the heart of next month’s Spending Review.

In the review, the Chancellor will set out plans to raise billions of pounds from a suite of asset sales that will be ploughed back into infrastructure projects.

Later today in York, Osborne will also confirm the seven commissioners who will help former Cabinet minister Lord Adonis run the independent National Infrastructure Commission.

The line-up includes Lord Heseltine and experienced industry bigwig, Sir John Armitt, who backed the formation of the commission in a Labour policy document before the last election.

NIC commissioners
Lord Heseltine – the former deputy prime minister who has long championed the regeneration of Britain’s inner cities through infrastructure investment
Sir John Armitt – the former chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and next year’s President of the Institute of Civil Engineers
Professor Tim Besley – a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee and the LSE’s Growth Commission, which recommended an independent infrastructure body
Demis Hassabis – artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist and head of DeepMind Technologies
Sadie Morgan – a founding director of dRMM Architects and Design Panel Chair of HS2
Bridget Rosewell – a senior adviser at Volterra and former Chief Economist and Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater London Authority
Sir Paul Ruddock – chairman of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the University of Oxford Endowment

The Chancellor said: “I am determined to shake Britain out of its inertia on infrastructure and end the situation where we trail our rivals when it comes to building everything from the housing to the power stations that our children will need.

“At the Spending Review, I will commit to investing £100bn in infrastructure over the next five years and we are creating an independent commission to give us a long-term, unbiased analysis of the country’s major infrastructure needs.

“We need to think long-term and deliver a cross-party consensus on what we need to build.”

The commission will produce a report at the start of each five-year Parliament, offering recommendations for priority infrastructure projects and hold governments to account for their delivery.

Its initial focus will be in three key areas. These include identifying priorities for future investment in the North’s strategic transport infrastructure to improve connectivity between cities, especially east-west across the Pennines.

London’s transport system, particularly reviewing strategic options and identifying priorities for future investment in large scale transport improvements – on road, rail and underground – including Crossrail 2.

Energy, particularly exploring how the UK can better balance supply and demand, aiming for an energy market where prices are reflective of costs to the overall system

This story is by constructionenquirer.com

 

 

Edge Careers are Construction and Engineering Recruitment Experts who pride ourselves on offering the highest level of service in the industry to all of our candidates and clients.

To become an Edge Careers candidate, please click here to register your details. If you are a client looking to fill a vacancy, please click here, or alternatively contact one of our consultants to discuss your requirements in more detail via our Contact Us page.

Follow Edge Careers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for all our latest news, exclusive competitions and events.

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