Retail: Tesco has created more than 800 jobs with the opening of three new stores, reports Retail Gazette. The supermarket giant received more than 5,000 applications for the vacancies in Derbyshire, Nottingham and Birmingham. The company has worked with Jobcentre Plus and employment services company Remploy to ensure a third of all vacancies are filled by people local to the stores who were either unemployed or classed as long-term unemployed.
Teaching: Forty teaching and support staff jobs will be created at a multi-million pound university technical college opening next year. The UTC in Walsall, West Midlands, will specialise in engineering and manufacturing - recruitment is likely to begin in the new year, according to the Express & Star.
Call centre: A firm which provides customer service centres for other companies is creating close to 300 jobs in Northern Ireland. Rigney Dolphin, whose clients include BMW and Carphone Warehouse, will create the call centre jobs in Londonderry according to the BBC.
Software: Technology company First Derivatives is set to create 40 jobs by opening a new research and development office in Belfast. The firm, which supplies software and consulting services to global investment banks and hedge funds, will launch the centre in the new year, reports the Belfast Telegraph.
Sales: 85 new jobs are being created by Reader's Digest in Swindon. The company is said to be recruiting sales staff for a new call centre, according to This is Wiltshire. The jobs will be created throughout 2011.
