March/April 2004
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Fab Time for New Recruit

The University has celebrated its part in a scheme that aims to help young people from the city's ethnic minority communities to find non-traditional employment.

Samina Kausar, who is now full-time at the University, was taken on for 16 weeks by the Finance Directorate under the city's YouthBuild Finance and Business (FAB) programme.

Now full-time at the University, trainee accounts clerk Samina joined other young people who have come through FAB for a celebration event at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

Only 10% of the 44 FAB trainees had enough qualifications to get into the finance industry. Some 60% of those placed were young Asian women.

Assistant financial accountant Tracy Spencer, who joined Samina for the event, said: "We are really proud to have been able to take part in the programme.

"FAB is giving people like Samina real opportunities to get into work and we were delighted to be able to offer her a full-time job after the programme had finished. I would be sorry if we could not support the scheme again."

Samina, 22, said: "Before YouthBuild I was very nervous about applying for jobs. Getting a job was also hard because most of the advertisements wanted people with experience.

"The celebration event was great - there were lots of young people there with some really inspirational stories."

16 April 2004

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