Thousands of jobseekers in Bath and the South West are set to get a helping hand from an award winning recruitment firm, which opened its doors in the city recently.

Despite the current bleak job scene, SkyBlue, now with an office in Ernest Ireland House, Bath, has maintained an average of 2,000 workers in temporary assignments per week across the UK - mainly in the construction, highways and commercial sectors.


Part of Carillion, the recruitment firm specialises in construction, facilities management, mechanical & electrical, highways and rail sectors, including trades, commercial and specialist professional/technical roles.

Paul Clark, SkyBlue Senior Member for the South West, said: "We're looking forward to a really promising year with the start of the new £430m PFI hospital at Southmead which will require a high volume of local people from the area both during Carillion's construction period and the 30-year period when Carillion will also be maintaining it.

"In the pipeline we have a number of projects due to start shortly, for which we'll be looking to recruit skilled and unskilled local people."

(CD/BMcC)