People across Wiltshire are well placed to make your business work with large available workforces within half an hour of the key sites. We are home to a higher than national average number of graduate and high calibre candidates, reflecting that Wiltshire is a highly desirable place to live. Our population is healthier than the average too, due to a beneficial and varied environment that enables diverse activities and opportunities for a better quality of life.

We can offer a wide range of advisory services, each of which is dedicated to helping you to maximise your recruitment, training and retention:

• The Learning and Skills Council offers apprenticeship schemes and Train to Gain programmes. Train to Gain gives you access to a Skills Broker who will carry out a needs analysis of training within your business and help you assess what skills your business has now and what you will need in the future. The LSC has also secured European Social Fund (Objective 3) funding to 2013, which will drive activities that enable sustainable economic growth and social inclusion, so delivering a skilled and adaptable workforce.
  
  
• Jobcentre Plus deliver a fully-integrated employer service from offices in Devizes, Chippenham, Salisbury and Trowbridge.
  
  
• Wiltshire College provides focused workforce development schemes and training programmes that aim to meet employer needs and support investors. Well-established in providing business-to-business services and professional training, whether off-the-shelf or bespoke, both have a clear focus on providing industry responsive education and so have built strong links with local and regional business.
  
  
• Specialist Recruitment Agencies work closely with employers to meet specialist staffing needs and a range of out-sourced services are also provided in Wiltshire by companies providing HR, admin, secretarial, credit control and other services to assist smaller companies, who are not in a position to provide these services in-house.  To search for these companies in your area, please visit the Buy Wiltshire website and search the Buy Wiltshire Business Directory.