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Recruitment and training business Optima º£½ÇÊÓÆµ helping four young people Kickstart their careers

Kickstart apprenticeship programme provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit

Optima’s Larraine Boorman with the four new Kickstart apprentices

Recruitment and training business Optima º£½ÇÊÓÆµ is helping four young people to Kickstart their own fledgling careers.

Based in Enderby, Leicester, Optima helps companies across the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ to find talented people to fill roles in sectors such as legal, accountancy, financial, manufacturing, engineering, and aerospace.

It has itself now taken on four new people as part of the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government’s Kickstart apprenticeship programme, which provides funding to employers to create jobs for 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit.

Jacob Edwards, Hannah Humpreys, Satinder Kaur, and Jayden Patel have all begun roles within Optima’s different divisions.

Larraine Boorman, Optima’s chairman and chief executive, said: “With young people being most affected by unemployment during the pandemic, we are delighted to be in the position to take on four new young people through the Kickstart apprenticeship scheme to prepare and develop them at the beginning of their careers.

"Through our Training team, we have developed a comprehensive induction and development programme that will provide them with the skills and tools they will need to carry out their job effectively.

“It also focuses on developing a range of soft skills that will enable them to progress in any organisation.”

Jacob Edwards, 22, from Leicester, who has a degree in Automotive Engineering, is one of the four new interns and he has joined Optima’s Engineering division.