Green-Works is an award winning social enterprise and registered charity dedicated to helping the environment by diverting redundant office and school furniture from landfill by providing reused and remanufactured furniture to small business, charities, schools and community groups whilst providing training and real work experience to the unemployed.

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18-24 year olds get on the green jobs ladder

7 April 2010

Its expect around 10,000 of the 170,000 jobs created, will be green jobs.   Green-Works currently have 55 new employees in the Wembley warehouse, 7 in Community Transport (Wolverhampton) and 17 in Firstfruit (East London).The employees are based in a variety of positions through out the operations from warehouse staff to finance, HR and customer services.  

One of our recent FJF employees, Min talks about his experience After signing on at the jobcentre for over six months, I joined Green-Works via the Future Job Fund scheme, on a six months contract. I am studying to be an Accountant.  I was looking for a job in Accountancy whilst doing this but it was so difficult to even get an interview without experience. I was placed in the Finance department as the Junior Credit Controller. I am working in a small finance team. All my colleagues have taught and explained to me all I have to do with Credit Control.  

After a month, I started doing Purchase Ledger. I enjoy doing Credit Control and Purchase Ledger without any difficulties. My daily job refreshes my accounting knowledge and gives me a lot of help with my study. I was also given useful internal training for customer invoicing, managing cash and banking. I am more confident to find a job in Accountancy after finishing my contract with Green-Works. It should be easier with my experience.

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