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Oct 2022
Business Breakfast: Harrogate College event links employers with students
A Harrogate College event gives firms the chance to discuss work prospects with students and there's an award for the firm behind the junction 47 upgrade on the A1(M).
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
Harrogate College is holding an event that gives businesses the chance to talk to customer service-trained students about part-time work that fits around their studies.
The college's employer network recruitment fair enables Harrogate district firms the opportunity to come into college and speak to students directly.
Each business can approach the recruitment fair in its own way: it can conduct an interview and offer work that day, or share information about the business before inviting students for a formal interview at the place of work.
The free event takes place at the college, on Hornbeam Park, on November 2 from 11am to 1.30pm. Tickets can be booked here.
Construction firm wins award for junction 47 upgrade
Junction 47
Building contractor, Farrans Construction, won the Best Highways and Transportation Project award at a recent CIHT Yorkshire and Humber event for its delivery of the junction 47 A1(M) upgrade for client North Yorkshire County Council.
The project, near Flaxby, involved widening of three of the four slip roads onto and off the roundabout to increase capacity as well as a number of junction improvements.
Cllr Keane Duncan, North Yorkshire County Council’s executive member for highways and transport, said:
“It is one of the busiest junctions in North Yorkshire and since the scheme was completed earlier this year we have seen a significant difference in reducing congestion and improving road safety.
“It represents a successful collaboration between the county council, Farrans, AECOM and National Highways in overcoming difficult situations without major delays to the travelling public during construction on this key route which unlocks future growth in and around Harrogate.”
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