The Institute of Employability Professional’s (IEP) Northern Ireland branch recently held its first ever networking meeting in Belfast. This fully subscribed event supported by ICONI Software saw employability practitioners from across Northern Ireland come together to have their say on the key issues facing the sector here and how to respond to them. The IEP [...]
The winners of the inaugural ERSA Employability Awards, sponsored by Interserve Working Futures, were announced last week at a ceremony in central London, attended by Employment Minister Mark Hoban. The awards aim to celebrate and champion the people and organisations working to tackle joblessness in the UK. The 169 entries were whittled down to seven [...]
The finalists for the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) inaugural Employability Awards 2013 were announced at ERSA’s AGM in London on Friday. The awards, sponsored by Interserve Working Futures, attracted nearly 170 entries from across the UK. The entries were judged by Sarah Neville from the Financial Times, Matthew Oakley from Policy Exchange, and Julia [...]
ICONI is delighted to be supporting the Institute of employability Professional’s (IEP) first ever networking event in Belfast following its launch last year. The event entitled: IEP debates the fututure of the employability sector in Northern Ireland. Come and have your say! is on Thursday, 23 May from 09:30am to 11:30am at the Radisson Blu [...]
Companies seeking employees qualified in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects are reporting difficulty due to the low uptake of these courses by students in Northern Ireland at GCSE, A Level and at University. This potential shortfall in the workforce is a cause for concern and one that is being addressed by Government and [...]
ICONI recently developed and is currently supporting a unique web-based client management system to assist a leading UK employability charity in delivering support to unemployed young people across south London. London-based charity, Careers Development Group (CDG) will be working with almost 4,000 young Londoners aged between 18 and 24 through their innovative project, known as Day One [...]
ICONI is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a group of local school children to study computer programming, as part of an initiative being run by Momentum and the University of Ulster’s centre for computing and engineering short courses (CEPEC-NI). This initiative will enable a number of sixth form pupils from across Northern Ireland to [...]
Caselink V2, an enhanced version of the original Caselink Management Information System (MIS) used to support multiple employability projects across Edinburgh and Midlothian, was recently launched by ICONI. The previous MIS was upgraded using ICONI’s latest employability framework to reflect the changes in the structure of how support services are delivered within the City of [...]
At the ERSA Annual Conference on 3 December we will be running a prize draw at our stand to win the new Kindle Fire. We will also be sharing best practice and our experience of delivering high quality, cost-effective management information systems for the employment related services sector. We look forward to seeing you there! [...]
The Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) has launched into Northern Ireland with the help of ICONI Software. The IEP is the professional body for those working across the employment related services sector and there are an estimated 20,000 people working in this sector throughout the UK. During his visit to Northern Ireland IEP Director, Declan [...]
