While
government departments are shedding staff this year in a bid to meet new fiscal
rationalisation guidelines, one giant of the private sector will be augmenting
its ranks prodigiously.

Microsoft
has promised to establish 4000 jobs in Great Britain this year, in addition to
the 9000 positions it has made available in the past two years.  Britain Works was the scheme the corporation
launched in 2009, and via that initiative, skilled apprenticeship offers are
extended to IT prospects, together with assistance to entrepreneurs to set up
new business ventures.

“That’s not
counting,” said Gordon Frazer, Microsoft’s UK’s managing director, “the
training that the scheme accords people who want to train for existing positions.”

Respected
executive employment consultancy UK
Knack Group’s managing director attended a meeting of business leaders at
the Prime Minister’s house in Downing Street early this week, and commented,
“Frazer’s on the right track.  His training
scheme gets young blokes off the dole queue, out of that welfare dependency
mind-set and sets them up with useful skills in the fastest-growing industry of
our age.   That’s with invaluable
assistance from the National Apprenticeship Service.”

It is
Microsoft’s intention to have established also within the next four months - as
well as the technical support apprenticeship - new technical sales and software
development apprenticeships for the brighter recruits.

UK Knack
Group’s managing director concluded his remarks by saying, “What impresses me
most is that Microsoft has set a target of assisting half a million people into
work by next year.”

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