Appointments: Barclays; Elevation Recruitment; NatWest

SIX young people from Yorkshire are among the Barclays apprentice graduates this year.

In total, 41 apprentices completed the Barclays apprentice scheme and graduated from the programme at a ceremony held at Barclays head office in Canary Wharf, London.

The group are now guaranteed permanent jobs with Barclays having spent a year with the bank gaining the experience they need to help them with their on-going careers.

Kath Myers, Barclays retail network regional director, said: “The graduates have all worked extremely hard and we have been very impressed by their commitment and diligence.

“Following the success of our programme we are now looking forward to hiring more apprentices from across Yorkshire, so they too can experience the benefit that an apprenticeship can bring.”

The Yorkshire apprentices are Connor Fowles from South Yorkshire and Asim Hussain, Chloe Dodgson, Ciara Ainley, Lauren Baker and Megan Harrison who are all based in West Yorkshire. All the graduates attained a Level 2 certificate in Providing Financial Services.

Barclays started recruiting apprentices in April 2012 under a major programme focusing on the quality of apprenticeships. The graduation ceremony comes as Barclays welcomes its 1000th apprentice to the scheme.
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A YORKSHIRE recruitment agency has built on its recent expansion into Leeds with a number of new appointments after seeing a surge in vacancies in businesses across the region.

Elevation Recruitment said the internal appointments is indicative of a “more buoyant business community” across all sectors it operates in over the past six months, with some companies looking to expand their workforce.

Among the new recruits at Elevation’s Leeds office is Rob Simpson as senior consultant in finance, Scott Morton as consultant in the sales and marketing division, Catherine Pitman as recruitment secretary and David Russell as consultant.

In addition, five new appointments have been made at the firm’s South Yorkshire headquarters.
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NATWEST has appointed a new head of structured finance for the North of England, as well as creating a brand new role to further support deals across the area.

Paul Thomas takes up the role for the North within NatWest commercial banking, while James Burgess takes up a position as a new director within Mr Thomas’s team.

Mr Thomas said: “I’m pleased to take up this new role leading the good work we are doing in supporting structured finance deals in business communities across the North of England. This is a team with a lot of experience and the expertise to find those solutions that a lot of firms need in order to grow and progress their business ambitions.

“I’m also delighted to welcome James to the team; he is a new face in a brand new role which demonstrates our investment into this area. He brings with him a wealth of experience from his previous role and is a great addition to our team.”