Employment and job training
We want to support our local businesses to find the right employees, and help our residents to develop the skills they need to secure employment.
Our pre-employment training programme and regular jobs fairs help link the right candidates with the right employers.
We can refer you to partner organisations if you are:
- out of work, helping you to secure sustainable employment
- an employer looking for help with your recruitment and skills needs
If you have any employment and skills-related queries:
Take our skills and training assessment
To help you to reach your full potential we have put together a skills and training needs assessment. It will identify what skills you would like to develop.
You will be asked to rate how confident you feel in certain development areas such as communication, budgeting, your own home and employment.
At the end of the assessment, you will be able to identify relevant information or courses that could help you prepare to access housing, employment or managing your finances.
You can take the assessment as many times as you like. We would suggest identifying three to four skills that are manageable or suitable and revisit when you are ready for the next step.
Catalogue of courses
Many of the skills are supported by a catalogue which includes information on all the relevant courses that are available. Each catalogue includes the delivery mode, the duration and location of the courses and if it results in a qualification.
Contact us and ask for the Housing Options team if you need help in completing the assessment:
Telephone: 01636 650 000
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Future First Careers Expo 2026
We organise an annual careers expo, in partnership with The Lincoln Group and Newark Advertiser.
The next Future First Careers Expo takes place on Thursday 12 November 2026. The Expo is being held at The Lady Eastwood Centre at Newark Showground.
The annual Future First Careers Expo invites students from across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to talk to over 50 businesses, both local and national, as well as education and training providers about the variety of exciting opportunities that are available to them after school.
Students are given the opportunity to be introduced to industries and career paths they had perhaps not come into contact with before, ask specific questions about their future and gain invaluable insight.
Request a Future First Careers Expo stand
If you are a business or an education and training provider that would be interested in having a stand at the Future First Careers Expo: