From left: David Grevemberg (COE Glasgow 2014), Simone Lockhart (Search Consultancys managing director, Scotland), Clyde the Games mascot, Jan Scott (head of HR Glasgow 2014) and Shona McKenzie, (recruitment director for Search Consultancy).
Around 800 people are being sought for jobs at next year’s Commonwealth Games.
Glasgow 2014 created 1,400 vacancies and 450 different roles to ensure the event runs as smoothly as possible and hope to fill them by early next year.
Search recruitment, a partner of the games, has already filled almost half the roles and is launching a drive to find 800 people to work in jobs such as managing and maintaining the venues, recording and collating results during competition, staffing the international press centre and overseeing travel arrangements for arriving and departing athletes.
Clyde, the 2014 mascot, joined Search on a ‘jobs bus’ in Glasgow yesterday as staff advised people how to apply for the jobs.
Earlier this year, more than 50,000 people applied for 15,000 volunteer roles at the games with interviews continuing until the end of this year to find the best candidates.
Initial applications for tickets to the games, which start on July 23 next year, closed earlier this week but many sports were heavily oversubscribed.
