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Eight big name companies that are currently hiring across Greater Manchester

Boots, McDonald's, PwC, and Tesco are among the high-profile companies looking to welcome new recruits.

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant - 29th October 2020
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A number of high-profile national companies are currently looking for new staff to fill a wide variety of roles in branches across Greater Manchester and the UK.

Boots, McDonald’s, PwC, and Tesco are among the companies looking to welcome new recruits.

There are currently thousands of jobs on offer within these companies throughout the country, ranging from retail and communications, to roles in logistics and even senior management positions too.

If you’re looking for a change of career, keen on exploring a new direction, or just fancy lending a hand to your wider community at a time when it’s most needed, then there are plenty big-name businesses and retailers looking to expand their teams across the region and we’ve rounded up all the roles with applications that are open to the public.

These are the companies hiring right now, and some of the opportunities they are offering.

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Boots

Boots currently employs 56,000 people and is looking to hire around 700 new members of staff throughout the UK, with hundreds of roles available across the North West region and a number in Greater Manchester, including Pharmacists, Store Managers, and Pre-registration Trainee positions all up for grabs.

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Full-Time, Part-Time, Fixed Term and Permanent positions are all currently open.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Boots Jobs website here.

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Fancy joining the over 43,970+ team members at Next?

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Given the time of year gearing up to the festive period, there’s plenty of temporary Christmas Support Team roles currently open for applications in the Arndale, Trafford Centre, The Lowry Centre, and more, as well in a number of retail parks across the boroughs.

There’s also vacancies for non-seasonal temporary Sales Consultant and Delivery Assistant roles.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Next Careers website here.

Tesco

Tesco currently employs of 450,000 people throughout the UK.

There’s a number of Customer Assistant roles of all levels that are currently open for applications at Tesco branches across Greater Manchester.

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From Failsworth, Burnage, and Bolton, to Oldham, Walkden, Leigh and more, stores right across the region are recruiting new team members with roles in a wide range of areas including Customer Service Assistants, Personal Shoppers, Delivery Drivers, Night Shift Assistants, Maintenance Management, Kitchen / Cafe, and there’s also a few roles suited to more experienced applicants too that offer a competitive salary and great employee benefits.

Full time, part time, Flexi, Temp, Festive Temp, and night time roles are all available.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Tesco Careers website here.

PwC

PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) employs over 21,362 people across the UK and calls the swanky No.1 Spinningfields building its home in Manchester city centre.

There are a number of roles for experienced applicants currently open to the public.

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Roles based in the Manchester city centre hub which are accepting applications at present include External Audit Managers, Senior Manager in Business Restructuring Services – Covenant Advisory, Senior Associate in Digital Audit Advanced Analytics, Senior Salesforce Delivery Manager, and many many more.

Hours can be flexible, and salary rates and employee benefits are competitive.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the PwC Experienced Careers website here.

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Co-op

If you’re looking for more specialised roles as well as in-store roles, then Co-op is a retailer with its headquarters based right here in Manchester city centre.

Well over 70,000 employees make up Co-op’s team nationwide.

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There are currently a wide range of roles available across Greater Manchester, with vaccines open for several Undergraduate roles including Junior Buyer, Product Developer, Labelling Assistant, Food Policy Coordinator and more, as well as more senior roles such as Head of Design and Business Intelligence Analyst.

Customer Team Member, and Sales and Services Team Manager roles are also currently open for applications across the region too.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Co-op Jobs website here.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s are well-known to be an excellent employer to work for here in the UK.

With plenty branches of the fast food chain spread across the Greater Manchester region, there are vacancies currently available in Hyde, Stretford, Urmston, Wythenshawe, Oldham, Bolton, Walkden, Radcliffe and more, with roles including Crew Members and Stockroom Staff up for grabs.

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Full-Time, Part-Time, temporary and night shift workers are required.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the McDonald’s Careers UK website here.

Domino’s

Popular pizza delivery chain Domino’s currently employs over 35,000 people in the UK and Ireland, and announced last month that it’s looking to expand its teams nationwide by creating 5,000 new jobs.

There are a number of vacancies currently open at branches across Greater Manchester.

Roles range from Store Operations, who’s responsibility it is to make, bake and take food to the doors of customers, and of course Delivery Drivers, who are “the face of Domino’s”, so if idea of being out on the road delivering hot, fresh and tasty pizza to hungry customers “gets your wheels spinning”, then this could be a great opportunity for you.

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You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Domino’s UK & Ireland Recruitment website here.

Deliveroo

Deliveroo is looking to hire 15,000 new riders nationwide by the end of the year.

Riders for the leading food delivery service are self-employed and free to work to their own availability, can make as much as £120 a day, keep 100% of all their tips, get up to £250 for each person they refer, and get to benefit from the Deliveroo rider app whilst on shift, which makes it easy to plan ahead days ahead.

There’s a bunch of added employee perks too, including discounts at Apple, Vue Cinemas, and great restaurants.

To apply to be a Deliveroo rider, you must have:

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  • A scooter, motorbike or bicycle with the necessary safety equipment.
  • A smartphone – iPhone (iOS 11 and above) or Android (6.0 and above).
  • Proof of your right to work in the UK.

It only takes five minutes to register your interest.

You can browse the roles available, read job descriptions and submit your applications via the Deliveroo website here.

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The Chestergate pub in Stockport is at it again with some of the most wonderfully Manc scenes you’ll ever see

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The legendary Chestergate pub in Stockport is back with another belter of a video, following on from their viral belly-flashing clip of 2022.

The Mersey Square boozer has painted yet another quintessentially Northern depiction of UK pub culture with the latest Manc scenes they’ve captured around the karaoke machine.

If you’ve never had the pleasure of stumbling into The Chestergate in Stockport town centre, the long-standing boozer currently operated by publican chain Blind Tiger Inns, you’re seriously missing out.

While it might not be the flashiest of pubs, when it comes to entertainment, it always delivers.

Whether it’s stunts like renaming themselves ‘The Southgate’ whenever the Euros or World Cup rolls around, or the locals just genuinely having a whale of a time no matter what day of the week it is, it really sums up the best of pub culture.

The Chestergate went viral for some of the most British footage ever caught on film back in 2022 and the videos saw a huge wave of love and support flooding in for the pub, as well as a healthy amount of chuckles. Safe to say we were chuffed to see them pop back up on our feed again recently.

Karaoke night at The Chestergate literally never disappoints.

Forget ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ or ‘Champagne Supernova’ for karaoke songs – we’ll take a cacophony of inaudible throwback pop music, whilst another bloke and his hype man try and MC over a totally ill-fitting beat any day of the week.

And that’s handy because you’ll find those kinds of shenanigans happening at this place all the time.

Be it hens and stags, St George’s Day celebrations; a safe-cracking-themed competition, a ‘Texas Hold ‘Em Hoedown’ dance-off, or simply the matchday crowds when the footy’s on, there’s always something going on here.

It’s simultaneously one of the most no-nonsense and somehow a non-stop shenanigan-filled paradise. They also look after their own and consider their regulars part of the family. Case and point: they threw their very own ‘Dancing Queen’ Molly a big bash for her 86th birthday and it’s such wholesome viewing.

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At this point, it’s worth flagging that we have nothing but envy for these folks and anyone who’s just out there having the time of their lives on any random weeknight.

Yes, it produced plenty of laughs for those watching online in recent times but this lot won’t mind one bit – not only is the pub seeing more and more new faces through the door but that’s the whole point of a pub, isn’t it? Going for a pint with your nearest and dearest and having a laugh.

Not only is it very Manchester but it’s Britain at its very best.

We hope to see you at The Chestergate pub in Stockport for a pint or two sometime soon and we’re making a bit of a prat of ourselves, don’t worry, we’re sure they’ll have the cameras ready for you.

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Tailgaters and middle lane hoggers warned to change their ‘dangerous’ driving style

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

A warning has been issued to tailgaters and motorway middle lane hoggers urging them to change their ‘dangerous’ driving style.

Do you find yourself guilty of two of the biggest driving sins from time to time?

Well, according to the latest figures released by National Highways, one in three motorists have admitted to middle lane hogging in their lives, while one in four have committed acts of tailgating on some of the UK’s fastest roads.

These shocking survey findings – which were released back in early March as the Government-owned road management company launched a new campaign – showed that lane hogging was among the behaviours that are most likely to cause motorists and passengers to feel ‘frustrated’, and tailgating was most likely to cause feelings of unease, stress, and anxiety.

Nearly a third (32%) of drivers admitted to lane hogging ‘at least occasionally’ while driving on England’s motorways and major A roads, according to the survey – which polled 2,500 adults between the ages of 16-75.

On top of this, almost seven in ten adults in England (67%) said close following or tailgating is a ‘serious problem’ on these types of roads, but nearly a quarter (23%) admitted to doing it from time to time.

Tut-tut.

Tailgaters and middle lane hoggers have been warned to change their ‘dangerous’ driving style (Credit: IPTC/Ronald Hudson)

It’s these very statistics which have led National Highways to issue an urgent warning that calls on these motorists to “carefully consider” their driving habits, as “little changes can change everything”.

Lane hogging and tailgating both fall under the offence of ‘careless driving’ in England, with the country’s police forces having the power to hand out on-the-spot fines of £100 and three penalty points to those who commit such offences.

“Middle lane hogging and tailgating are far more than mere annoyances for drivers,” warned RAC road safety spokesperson, Rod Dennis, adding that these actions “put everyone on the roads at risk.”

He continued in his reaction to the release of the latest National Highways figures: “Closely following another motorist could easily result in a serious collision should the driver ahead need to brake sharply for any reason, so the fact nearly one in four drivers admitted to doing so on some of England’s fastest and busiest roads is frightening”.

Mr Dennis said he understands that offenders “might find these habits hard to kick”, but that’s why the urgent calls for motorists to make changes are “so important”.

“By understanding that how we choose to drive affects others, we can each make a real difference to the safety of our roads,” he concluded.

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