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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.

Our dedicated employment and skills group brings together delivery partners to:

  • help people who are out of work to secure sustainable employment
  • support employers with their recruitment and skills needs
  • link education with business to help mould our future workforce.

If you have any employment and skills-related queries, email us at economic.growth@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk

Free pre-employment training programme for employers

We provide a free pre-employment training programme to employers with job vacancies. We work with employers to create a bespoke training programme based on their skills requirements. The programme helps give candidates an awareness of a given sector and work areas.

As part of this process all candidates will be pre-screened on behalf of the employer. The only thing an employer has to offer in return is guaranteed interviews.

As well as the pre-employment training programme, we host regular jobs fairs to enable employers to promote their vacancies free of charge.

Future First Careers Expo

Organised by Newark and Sherwood District Council in partnership with The Lincoln Group and Newark Advertiser, the annual Future First Careers Expo invites students from across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to talk to over 50 businesses - both local and national - and 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. 

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 please email veronica.dennant@newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk

The 2024 Expo will take place on 14 November at the Lady Eastwood Centre at Newark Showground.