Employment and Recruitment

The Islington Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to encouraging employability, recruitment and training.  Please find information below on the various resources and partnership the chamber has relating to employment.

  • City and Islington College: For your business to succeed, your staff need to be enterprising, productive and have the right skills. The result is a motivated workforce, increased staff retention and ultimately improved productivity for your business. CandI offers a wide range of training solutions for employers and will help your business and staff to grow.

  • Gelbergs Solicitors: We offer a wide range of employment law services to local businesses, from advice and negotiation, through to representation in tribunals or courts. We have a long history of providing quality affordable legal services to the Islington community and beyond. We try and prevent employee problems where possible and protect your business when necessary. We can advise on employment and agency contracts, staff handbooks, policies and procedures, transfers of business, home working, part-time working, flexible working, discrimination in the workplace and in the provision of goods and services, maternity, paternity, parental leave, bullying, victimisation, harassment, pre-employment questionnaires, working time and minimum wage compliance, holiday pay, disciplinary issues, grievances, performance management issues, retirement, dismissals, redundancies, relocation of staff, whistleblowing, managing sickness absence, disability issues and reasonable adjustments, workplace health and safety obligations, compromise agreements, references, post-termination restrictions and confidentiality obligations, notice pay, breach of contract and unlawful deductions from wages, Equal Pay legislation, and changes to terms and conditions of employment. Please contact Emmajane Taylor-Moran, Head of the Employment Department on 0207 226 0570 to discuss how we can help. We are happy to offer a discount to ICoC members.

  • City University: The City University London Work-Shadowing Scheme has been developed to offer our students an opportunity to “shadow” a business professional, who has specific knowledge about an occupation or career in which the students are interested. We expect that participation in the scheme will enable our students to gain a better understanding of the different career paths available to them and make more informed career choices. We also hope that it will help them develop a more realistic picture of the job market as well as raise their aspirations.
    To get involved all you need to do is agree to be “shadowed” by one of our penultimate or final year students for a day. The student doesn’t need to shadow a specific individual but they can instead shadow a whole team or department.. We are looking for professionals across different sectors and career paths including Finance, Engineering, IT, Marketing, HR, Media, Retail, Health, Not for Profit and Public Sector. Read more here

  • Recro Consulting was established to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and experience between the workless, employers and providers. We utilise an employer audit which measures the real cost of entry level recruitment including time and cost per hire, retention ratios and the supply chain. The report produced highlights possible improvements, savings, changes to supply chain and access to public training and other budgets where appropriate. With the business case made, we work with employers to help negotiate the system and get the supply chain delivering what is best for the organisation. We have an intensive three day programme “The Life You Want” which helps “turn the lights back on” for the long term unemployed, giving them genuine motivation and aspiration, helping them make the necessary commitments to themselves for their journey back to employment. We have found that this is what is often missing in the larger, prescriptive programme outlined before. Learn more about Recro

For more information you can contact John McDonough on 07837 663 969 or john.mcdonough@recroconsulting.co.uk www.recroconsulting.co.uk