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Winander House, Glebe Road Bowness on Windermere
ORDER PROCESSORS
Winander Leisure Ltd is the parent Company of Windermere Lake Cruises and the Lakeland Motor Museum.
Taking and inputting customer orders. The position requires accuracy, excellent listening and computer skills.
We are looking to strengthen our team in the head office at Winander House, Bowness on Windermere, and wish to recruit an:
• Competitive salary • Flexible working • Evening shifts (4pm until 10pm or 6pm until 12pm) but work from home*
IT Technician Working as part of a small team, the role will include proactively managing and maintaining the groups’ network infrastructure, deploying PCs and associated peripherals, particularly POS systems, including new installations and the redeployment of existing equipment. Assisting in the development of internal systems and software and installing/configuring hardware and software to agreed standards. Ensuring that systems and software are kept up to date, issues are prioritised/dealt with promptly and providing technical support to system users.
Applicants should apply with a CV to kelly@lsf.co.uk or call Kelly or Andy to discuss the role on 01539 822713. *(training will be carried out in our main offices until competent)
Knowledge of Microsoft’s Visual Studio, SQL and MS Office is advantageous.
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For further details or an application form please contact Ian Wilkinson on 015394 40367 or i.wilkinson@winander-leisure.co.uk Closing date for applications 4th October 2019
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Customer Support Administrator MTCS specialises in the provision of online training and competence certification packages for the Offshore Energy sector including Oil & Gas and Renewables. Our training and certification is recognised as the offshore industry standard on a global basis. We are now looking to expand our small team by recruiting a Customer Support Administrator. The role requires an individual with: • Exceptional attention to detail • Demonstrable experience of working in the field of Customer Support • A good working knowledge and experience in Windows 10, Microsoft Office 365 (Word & Excel) and email. • Experience in working with Google Sheets is advantageous Reporting to the Managing Director the Customer Support Administrator will be responsible for the following:
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• Being the primary point of contact for customer enquiries via telephone and email. • Undertaking a range of IT related administrative tasks relating to the MTCS Learning Management System • Providing customer support in all routine aspects of MTCS Online to client companies and individuals on an international basis The successful candidate can look forward to joining a growing, highly collaborative learning & development team that have developed ground breaking training and certification initiatives in the offshore energy (oil & gas, renewables) industry. To express interest in joining MTCS as a Customer Support Administrator please send a covering letter and cv to the Managing Director at enquiries@mtcs.info
Gilpin Hotel & Lake House is a five star, family-run hotel near Windermere, with a great team and a friendly environment. We are recruiting:
LAKE HOUSE DUTY MANAGER | LAKE HOUSE GENERAL ASSISTANT KITCHEN PORTER | WAITING STAFF
NOW RECRUITING
careers@thegilpin.co.uk
| 015394 88818
Call us or email to find out more.
| thegilpin.co.uk
| Gilpin Hotel & Lake House, Crook Road, Near Windermere
Hotel & Catering
General Vacancies
Restaurant & Bar Manager Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work for a friendly and enjoyable independent hotel situated in the heart of the Lake District (Windermere). You will be part of a great team, working together to provide excellent customer service to all our guests. Reporting to the Hotel Manager, your main duties and responsibilities will be to: • Implement and maintain Restaurant and Bar standards • Draw up staff rotas & assist in recruitment & trainings • Ensure all customers receive the highest possible standard of care • Be responsible for Health & Safety issues in department • Carry out Duty Management as required To be successful in the role of Restaurant and Bar Manager, you must have: • Minimum of 3 years’ supervisory or management experience in a quality hotel, including experience in F & B • Excellent spoken and written English and good administration skills • Experience of stock ordering, stock control, pricing, POS • Experience in one to one coaching & performance review management Excellent Rates of Pay, Closed for Christmas, 28 Days paid holiday entitlement, Meals on Duty. Friendly family run hotel. This position does not include live-in accommodation.
Please send your cv to manager@hillthwaite.com or call 015394 43636 for further details
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How to write the perfect cv and find your ideal job
How to write a CV: The first thing to remember is that recruitment is NOT a screening in process, it’s a screening out process, so when you write a CV it needs to be good. With more than enough applicants for every role recruiting managers are looking for reasons NOT to interview you, so don’t give them any.
Your CV is your marketing tool and it’s pretty much all they’re going to know about you, if it’s not on there they’ll assume you don’t know it or haven’t done it. So here’s how to write a great CV and get to the top of the pile. • Using bullet points on a CV. Make it easy to read. Nothing puts a potential recruiter off more than pages and pages of prose. It makes picking out the key skills difficult so why bother if the other CVs are so much easier to work with? • How long should my CV be? Absolutely no longer than 2 – 3 pages max. By all means write a CV that goes on for 5+ pages, but understand it’s unlikely anyone will ever read past the first 2. • What font should I use on my CV? Keep the font to something easily readable like Arial and try not to go smaller than font size 11. • What do I write on my CV? Highlight your skills don’t just regurgitate your job description. For example: “Responsibility for maintaining spreadsheets” becomes “Skilled in the use of Excel, including the creation and maintenance of databases.” • How do I tailor my CV? You CV should be tailored it for every job you apply for, and I don’t just mean re-order your skills, I mean reflect the language of the recruiter in your CV. For example appraisals may also be known as annual reviews, development reviews, performance meetings etc. so when I submit my CV I’ll make sure it uses the same language the recruiter uses so they know I’ll be the perfect fit. • Where do I put education and qualifications on my CV? If they’re recent and relevant then stick them at the front, if not, it’s OK to put them at the end. And DON’T write a massive list of every in-house course you’ve attended; “Attended a wide range of in-house courses to develop both my personal and professional skills” will do just fine. • Do I include hobbies and interests on my CV? Try to include something interesting. “Socialising” and “Researching using the internet” are not going to impress anyone. • Should I include keywords on my CV? Online recruitment sites use key word search engines so here’s how to get more hits. Somewhere in the main body of your CV (not headers, footers or text boxes) write out a whole list of key words associated with your line of work, they don’t need to be constructed into a sentence. Once you’ve done that shrink the font size to 1 and colour them white. Obviously at this point you can’t read them but the search engines can. • How much detail should I put on my CV? Back up your claims. Don’t just say “Excellent organisational skills” what did you organise? “Excellent organisational skills demonstrated by the accurate management of the entire marketing scheduled for 2011” says so much more. • Should I include a personal statement on my CV.? No-one’s ever going to write “I’m a work shy layabout and hate working in teams”, so keep it short and punchy (2-3 lines) and focus on what you feel are your biggest selling points.
So where are all the jobs hiding? How do I find the perfect job? Now you know how to write a CV you now need to know how to find a job. In the current climate it’s easy to think there are no jobs out there, but there are, so here are a few ways you can find them. • Job websites. Obvious and easy, lots of jobs there but everyone knows it and is looking in the same place. Start with Employment-Pages.co.uk! Worth doing but good to find other ways to eliminate the competition. • Local papers; specifically Employent Pages! But not just the jobs section, check the editorial. Has a supermarket just got planning permission to build nearby? Has a local business just won an enterprise award? Look out for any articles that indicate any potential for employment and get in ahead of the game. • Build your network virtually. Online sites like LinkedIn are fabulous for building networks and I know of several successful recruiters who conduct their business entirely on there. Get your profile up to date and get some recommendations. • Build your network face to face. Ask people, talk to people, tell friends and family you’re job hunting, it’s amazing who knows who and how often this method turns up useful leads. • Should I use a rectruitment agency? Get the price off your head. Recruitment agencies will charge prospective employers anything between 15% and 25% of your starting salary. Most organisations are trying to reduce costs so do a spot of detective work. If the agency website describes a “Top financial services organisation in the Preston area” then start searching for exactly that on the internet. Most employers will put jobs on their own websites and if you can apply via that route then you’ll be saving them a lot of money and making yourself a more attractive prospect. • Shop windows. Do you need to work for a large employer? If not check out some of the local adverts in newsagent’s windows, many small local employers still use this route. • What do you love doing? The outdoors? Working with animals? Write a list of all the possible organisations that are connected with something you enjoy and start trawling their websites for jobs. • Volunteer. If you’re out of work then there’s no excuse not to do some volunteer work, even if just for a few hours each week. It will help you to develop new skills, give you the chance to meet new people and very often turn up connections that can lead to jobs. Plus it looks great on your CV, employers like to see people who’ve made an effort to keep themselves busy. • Listen to local commercial radio, manys the time I’ve been driving along and heard an advert from an employer looking to recruit. • Who’s bucking the trend? Even in a recession there are many employers booming, read the press, check the trade journals, find out who they are and go directly to their websites. Beth Pipe is a Learning and Development Professional and freelance writer. You can follow her at @cumbrianrambler on Twitter.