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How to find jobs in Wolverhampton

Also known as Wolves, Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands in the conurbation of which Birmingham is at the centre. The city has a population of 239,100, and the wider area of some 12,000 more. This article will detail the economy of the area and work vacancies there.

Jobs in the area

There are needless to say many jobs in the area. Indeed, the area has a reputation for many people for being an unexciting place only notably for its industry. History Largely, due its location in the middle of England, the city initially grew as a market town with a specialism in the woolen trade. The area underwent significant development during and after the Industrial Revolution. It has become a major centre of the coal, limestone and iron ore industries and a centre for the production of japanning, steel, locks and motorcycles. Economy and jobs today Due to geographical and demographic shifts and modernised industry, in recent decades, the area has undergone significant economic changes. Many of these come in the form of traditional industries going under, because they cannot compete with rivals for more currently cost-effective strategies. This is arguably true of the collapse of large British car manufacturing firm MG Rover, from which around 6,000 jobs were lost in the nearby Longbridge Plant. The economy is now based largely around engineering, (including a large aerospace industry) and the service sector.

Media jobs and how to get them

Media jobs Many of the jobs in the aforementioned service sector can be found in the media industry, as there are many local papers produced in the area or nearby. The largest of these is the Express & Star newspaper, which is based in Wolverhampton and provides Wolverhampton news. This paper boasts the largest circulation of any provincial evening daily local newspaper in the UK.
How to find these jobs Needless to say then, there are many jobs in this company, such as reporters, editors, photographers, researchers and sales teams. If one does not have the ‘contacts’ inside the paper already, which can be a great way to get these jobs, one can look on recruitment websites, the paper’s website or job directories. People can even try their luck, and post in a resume and/or example/s of work.

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