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Construction jobs and skills

Building the stage for the London 2012 Games will give people in London and the UK unprecedented access to thousands of construction jobs, training and career opportunities.

In February 2008 the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)published a strategy to outline how it will create new jobs, increase sustainable skills among local people and improve links between employers.

It includes ‘London 2012 Jobs’, a jobs brokerage service run in partnership with Jobcentre Plus, that will match candidates in the five Host Boroughs (Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Greenwich) and elsewhere in the UK with Olympic Park job opportunities.

The ODA will work with contractors on the Park to identify job opportunities. These will be advertised by Jobcentre Plus and the employment brokerage services in the five Host Boroughs. Opportunities will also be advertised through the UK-wide Jobcentre Plus network.

Contact your local employment brokerage service or Jobcentre Plus

Download the ODA's employment and skills strategy ‘jobs, skills, futures’

Local and previously unemployed people are continuing to access jobs on the Olympic Park.

The latest figures show that of the 4,101- strong workforce currently delivering the progress on the Olympic Park:

  • Nearly a quarter are local residents (20%);
  • 9% was previously unemployed before finding work helping deliver the Games; and
  • a fifth (20%) of these workers live locally.
Jerkins Osagiede

Jerkins Osagiede

After working as a labourer on construction sites on a casual basis, and also having experience using concrete breaking tools on the London Underground, Jerkins wanted to get permanent work and avoid periods of unemployment in between jobs.

While he had already secured his Construction Skills Competency Scheme card and had done health and safety courses, he decided to focus on building up his practical skills so he would be better suited to a wider range of construction jobs.

'I spoke to my local job centre to see if they could help me get into some training courses, which can be very expensive. They called me a short time later and told me I had a place on the forward tipping dumper course at the plant training centre. I was very pleased.

'This course is good as we are learning and practising the exact skills we would be doing on a site. I’m hoping that this will give me a better chance of getting another job, as my agency said that there were some jobs coming up for people who can drive dumper trucks.'

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