We are extremely grateful for all the support we had this year from AF Blakemore and Sons as well as Zeus Packaging. We have managed to support many underprivileged families this year. Many thanks to all involved. If you want to get involved with supporting our charities do reach out to one of our team on 0121 550 6667! Thank you in advance! 
Jobsworth Welcomes Paige!
Paige has joined the Jobsworth family as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant for our Industrial team. Paige will be working alongside Steph, Emily, Chelsea & Jodie to learn the ‘Jobsworth Way’ at Head Office.
We look forward to seeing Paige progress and wish her all the luck in her new role!
Kick-Off will be at 3:00pm on at Blundell Park.
Kick-Off will be at 3:00pm at the CKW Stadium – the home of our Wolverhampton office!
Come on lads, let’s improve further on last week’s draw!!
We have seen prices universally skyrocket in the past twelve months, with the cost of living crisis ever-present. On the 15th of March, Chancellor of the Exchequer – Jeremy Hunt, revealed the Spring Budget for 2023 in which he discussed the low unemployment rate of 1.3 million and the efforts that will be made to bring “economically inactive” people back into work. Since the Coronavirus pandemic started in 2020, the number of economically inactive workers (those neither working nor looking for work) has risen by more than half a million. This harms economic growth as employers struggle to find staff, resulting in higher pay to attract workers and higher prices for consumers. New measures are being introduced to encourage and retain older staff in the workplace.
Alongside these changes, we have another rise in the National Minimum Wage.
National Minimum Wage increase April 2023 from UK Government
Apprentices and workers under the age of 18 will see an increase of £0.47 per hour from £4.81 to £5.28.
18 – 20 year olds pay will increase by £0.66 per hour from £6.83 to £7.49.
21 – 22 year olds pay will increase by £1.00 per hour from £9.18 to £10.18.
Any workers aged 23 and over will have their hourly wages increased by £0.92 from £9.50 to £10.42.
With these new rates in action from 1st April 2023, all of our consultants, as well as our payroll and accounts team, have been working hard to accommodate and offer competitive rates to our clients and staff.
Lewis Hayes joined the driving team as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant.
Chelsea Burke joined our industrial team as a Trainee Recruitment Resourcer.
Vidya Patel joined our driving team as a Trainee Recruitment Resourcer.
After we acquired our Executive Box at Bescot Stadium last August, we completed a makeover kitting the box out with full Jobsworth branding – thanks to our friends over at Mack Graphics. James and Lewis from our driving team took the dive to begin working there a few days each week – primarily to offer our WV and WS based candidates somewhere closer to register but the break from all the girls at HQ probably encouraged them!
Our Executive Box at Bescot Stadium
Shortly after this, an office was required in the Wolverhampton area and along came Castlecroft. Based at the CKW Stadium – home of the AFC Wulfrunians – our Wolverhampton office is a key part of Jobsworth as a base for our driving team during the week.
Doubling our office space has certainly helped us to work more effectively and communicate more precisely between teams – although Fat Friday’s seem to be a distant memory.
Steph showing that she’s Jobsworth through and through in full uniform
Charlotte celebrating her birthday with a Toblerone almost as tall as she is
Charlotte Doyle joined the team back in 2016 and
April 2022 saw her be promoted to Payroll &
Compliance Manager.
Stephanie Holland joined the team back in February
2021 as a Recruitment Consultant and bagged herself
two promotions in the past 12 months! Steph has
gone from a Recruitment Consultant for the industrial
team to being Halesowen’s Branch Manager last year
and has been promoted once again to Regional
Manager last month.
Laura and James – 10 years working together
Long-standing members of staff hit a significant milestone in their time at Jobsworth. Laura Dubberley, our Company Secretary, and James Hines, our National Accounts Manager started with us way back in 2012! 10 years! A decade of their life has been Jobsworth! Alongside Jim and Rob, their loyalty and hard work has helped Jobsworth Recruitment progress to what it is today. With all of the work they do, they have yet to commemorate their 10-year anniversaries – I think a celebration is due!
August 2022 saw the business undertake a Driver Agency Excellence audit from Logistics UK (formerly Freight Transport Association). The audit is carried out to ensure that agencies are supplying drivers of a high calibre who comply and conform to legislation set out in the transport industry and is recognised by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. With the collective hard work and commitment from our entire team, the audit resulted in the business meeting ‘extremely high standards’.
On the subject of compliance, Lewis Hayes underwent training in October 2022 and achieved his Certificate in Driver Recruitment from Logistics UK. This is just another way Jobsworth are ensuring their staff are fully equipped to give top-quality service to our clients and ensure all workers are compliant, knowledgeable and capable of their duties.
Owen Cooper and our MD, Rob, last month.
Owen Cooper is a 22-year-old professional boxer from Worcester who we have sponsored since the start of his pro career. You may have seen in our ‘Latest News’ that Owen recently overcame a potentially career-threatening hand injury but currently stands with an 8-0 record from his win on the 25th of March and back in November 2022, secured the Midlands Area Welterweight title.
Gully Powar and Rob signing his contract in 2022.
Gully ‘The Relentless’ Powar – another young talent from the Wolverhampton area. At the end of last summer, Gully visited Rob at HQ to sign his contract with his professional boxing debut following on 30th October 2022. 3 fights, 3 wins, 1 TKO – what a record. Gully is set to fight again at the end of April and with such promising talent and commitment, we are both proud and excited to be on this journey with him.
Another company we support is Black Country Boxing (BCB Promotions). We have supported BCB and their up-and-coming boxing talent for many years, Owen and Gully included. During this time, we have had the chance to partner up with BCB for various fight night events across the Black Country as well as investing in their boxing gym.
One of our fleet at Bescot Stadium
Since acquiring the Wolverhampton office at CKW Stadium, we have been afforded to opportunity to sponsor AFC Wulfrunians who are current members of the Midland League Premier Division.
SJB Juniors FC is another team we sponsor – a grassroots football club affiliated with Birmingham FA offering opportunities to junior footballers in the West Midlands.
As well as holding an executive box at Bescot Stadium, we are proud partners of Walsall FC – you may even spot our branding pitch side!
We seem to have been able to pack a lot into the last 12 months, from developing our team to getting our name out further across the West Midlands and beyond, but the work does not stop. We have big plans to come over the next few months to restructure our approach, upskill our team even further and expand our workspace. It takes a lot of time and development to get to where we are – 19 years in the business and we are still learning and improving on a daily basis.
That’s what Jobsworth means to us, not following every rule to the letter (to a certain degree), but adapting, overcoming and improving on our processes and service.
Tomorrow will see the Walsall lads fighting for the win at The Cherry Red Records Stadium with the match kicking-off at 7:45pm.
Their weekend draw against Grimsby Town will have surely fired them up to win this game.
Saturday night saw the long awaited rematch between Nathan Heaney and Jack Flatley at the Telford International Centre, with our own Owen Cooper on the card against Eber Tobar.
We had no doubt in Owen’s ability and talent and he showed the nation that he shouldn’t be doubted either. Another win under his belt with a second round TKO means Cooper remains undefeated 8-0.
Jimmy Smith def. MJ Hall
Natty Ngwenya def. Pawel Strykowski
Moses Itauma def. Ramon Ibarra
Ben Fail def. Elgio Palacios
Ezra Taylor def. Ales Makovec
Macauley Owen def. Christian Lopez Flores
Owen Cooper def. Eber Tobar
Brad Strand def. Kevin Trana
Raven Chapman def. Linda Laura Lecca
Jason Cunningham def. Miguel Gonzalez
Ionut Baluta def. Andrew Cain
Nathan Heaney def. Jack Flatley
The Saddler boys faced some particularly miserable weather at Blundell Park against Grimsby Town.
This did not stop both teams fighting for the win, ultimately resulting in a 1-1 draw.
Read the full match report here.
The Wulfrunians seemed to bounce back on Saturday against RC Warwick.
This home game resulted in a 1-1 draw.
Let’s hope this energy will continue with this coming Saturday’s match against Market Drayton town.
See upcoming fixtures and match reports here.
Kick-Off will be at 3:00pm at Blundell Park.