10 February 2004, London, UK

Employment Café to Present at City Hall Mobile Seminar

Employment Café to Present at City Hall Mobile Seminar Entitled “Mobile Technology: Improving Public Services”

Employment Café http://www.employment-cafe.co.uk, the employment and job-matching service based in Brixton, London is to present at City Hall mobile seminar entitled “Mobile Technology: Improving public services”.

The Greater London Authority (GLA) http://www.london.gov.uk/gla/index.jsp, in association with T-Mobile http://www.t-mobile.co.uk and London Connects http://www.londonconnects.org.uk/, will be hosting a wide-ranging seminar entitled 'Mobile Technology: Improving public services' from 16:30 on Tuesday 10 February in City Hall, London.

Ros Griffiths, Founder and Managing Director of Employment Café, will be presenting the Employment Café case study, addressing the theme “Technology innovation driving efficiency and diversity in recruitment.”

The seminar focuses upon how mobile technology plays an essential part in the lives of many individuals and businesses and, as the technology advances, is set to play a central role in improving the quality and efficiency of public services.

The event presents an excellent opportunity to hear five organisations that have already successfully employed mobile technology to increase the scope of their work within the public sector. The panellists will demonstrate how their first-hand experience has helped them with the practical application of mobile technology.

Val Shawcross, London’s E-Envoy, Greater London Authority Assembly Member will open the seminar which is to be introduced and chaired by John Boyle, Director of Network Build at T-Mobile.

The one and a half hour seminar will include presentations and a panel session, offering attendees the chance to question those already using this technology in innovative ways.

“We are extremely pleased to be attending and presenting how Employment Café is leading within public and private sector spaces in helping its community with the use of its service and mobile technology. We are looking forward to demonstrate how the Employment Café service is connecting individuals to employment and wider opportunities using mobile technology, which is more readily available and accessible to them”, Ros Griffiths, Founder and Managing Director of Employment Café concludes.

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Date: 10 February 2004, 16:30 to 19:30.
Venue: Meeting Room 5, City Hall, Queens Walk, London SE1 2AA

This press release in available in PDF, plain text and Word formats. Photographs are available of the Employment Café team.

The media spokesperson for Employment Café is Ros Griffiths, Founder and Director.

About Employment Café
http://www.employment-cafe.co.uk

The Employment Café, first opened its doors on 18th June 2001 in Brixton, South London, and was the brainchild of Ros Griffiths, an award-winning social entrepreneur.

Employment Café's aim is to assist those seeking employment and training that is both rewarding and relevant.

The Employment Café Key Objectives:

• To assist applicants in finding worthwhile employment and training opportunities, particularly those from ethnic minority communities.
• To promote diversity in the workplace.
• To act as a central repository of information and services related to employment that can be easily and effectively accessed by its applicants

Visitors are greeted with a smile and the songs of jazz legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. While sipping coffee, clients can search for work in various sectors including Construction, Retail, Hospitality and many more.

Their services also include CV writing, Internet access, personal development, career consultancy, office facilities, a minority outreach programme for Job Centre Plus, job brokering with specialist agencies, and of course new web / text-message job matching service.

The Employment Café is staffed with a team of highly motivated professionals who work tirelessly to ensure clients and employers get the best possible service.