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How we'll support you

As an employer reading this you are already taking a step forward to doing things differently. Our job is to make your journey from here to more inclusive recruitment as smooth as possible.

Our friendly team will help you do this by:

  • Being real, we encourage a no-questions barred approach
  • Being extension of your team, we're local people who care about local businesses and the communities we live in
  • Being coaches, we'll be available to deliver inclusive employment training to help your business adapt its approach and culture
  • Being mentors, we will work with candidates to support them to learn the skills you need for them to perform well in your vacancy.
    "As a business we've got a responsibility to support the communities we live and work in. Creating Careers candidates bring so much to the workplace. New skills, new ideas and perspectives. I'd encourage any local business to get involved" Kerrie Allison: Head of Customer Engagements Focus Group

Join our 35 in 35 Business club

This year, we celebrate People First's 35th birthday; to mark it, we're launching our 35 in 35 Business Club. Join a supportive network of like-minded, values-led organisation that is united in the mission of working together to create more inclusive employment opportunities for people with a learning disability and/or autistic people.

Join our 35 in 35 Business club

When you join our Business Club, you'll commit to:

  • Offering work experience placements with the aim to employ on the completion of a successful placement
  • Tell your friends and network about us and help refer other organisations
  • Share with us new vacancies your organisation has coming up, which you believe may be of interest to one of our candidates
  • Meet with our prospective candidates who you think would be a good fit for your business.

Together, with your support, we can be the change we need to see if recruitment for Cumbria.