{"id":2102053,"date":"2025-09-22T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/eastmidlands\/?p=2102053"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:16:16","slug":"leicester-jobs-board-start-up-lands-25000-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/eastmidlands\/news\/2102053-leicester-jobs-board-start-up-lands-25000-investment","title":{"rendered":"Leicester jobs board start-up lands \u00a325,000 investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"322\">A new Leicestershire-based jobs platform has secured \u00a325,000 in funding from First Enterprise under the British Business Bank\u2019s Start Up Loans programme.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"515\">No Nonsense Jobs, founded by Kirsten-Reece Tarpey, has used the investment to build and launch its website, as well as integrate supporting systems to streamline employer and recruiter use.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"517\" data-end=\"878\">The business aims to improve the quality of job adverts and make them more informative, with a focus on salary transparency, visibility of application progress, and better insights from employers. Tarpey said she was motivated to launch the business after being frustrated by the lack of information in job postings during her own search for a new role.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1656\">RTarpey said: \u201cTaking the decision to apply for a loan in the first place was a big enough step, so writing a detailed business plan felt really daunting. Applying through the Start Up Loans programme felt right and easier than applying through a high street bank, knowing that there was support and guidance on offer too. Being able to tell our developers that they could kick off the project and that our business was going to become a reality was just the best thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The business aims to improve the quality of job adverts and make them more informative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2102054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127684],"coauthors":[95],"class_list":["post-2102053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recruitment","tag-featured-story","tag-leicestershire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leicester jobs board start-up lands \u00a325,000 investment | TheBusinessDesk.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The business aims to improve the quality 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