Work. Learn.
Earn. Grow.
Bringing local people, employers, schools, colleges and training providers together. Find a real job. Find a few paid hours. Get experience. Earn certificates. Build your CV. Find local people ready to work.
What are you looking for?
One local place for work, people, experience and training.
Four ways to move forward
You do not need the perfect CV, years of experience or a full-time vacancy. Start with what you have and build from there.
Job Finder
Real local vacancies that have been checked before they go live.
- Full-time jobs
- Part-time jobs
- One day a week
- Weekend and evening work
- Casual and ad-hoc shifts
Staff Finder
Local people can show employers what they can do and when they are available.
- Build a local work profile
- Add skills and availability
- Add experience
- Add certificates
- Get matched automatically
Experience Finder
Help people get their first chance and help schools and colleges find placements.
- School work experience
- College placements
- Experience days
- Employer training
- First workplace experience
Training Finder
Build useful skills and qualifications employers can actually see.
- Free courses
- Funded places
- Clacton.org funded places
- Local paid courses
- Certificates for your CV
Employers cannot see what you might be capable of if your CV is empty. Clacton.org helps you build real evidence of what you have done.
The more you do, the more you can show the next employer. You do not have to go from nothing to a full-time career overnight. Just take the next step.
Start building my profileExample work profile
Young person building their first CVWe keep looking, even when you aren’t.
Our AI matching system compares local people, jobs, experience placements and training opportunities.
When a new job is posted or somebody updates their profile, the matches are checked again automatically.
AI helps find the opportunities. People still make the decisions.
You do not need to create a 40-hour job to give somebody an opportunity.
A few paid hours can give somebody their first opportunity, while giving your business the extra help it actually needs.
We verify the vacancy before it goes live and help match it with suitable local people.
If you successfully find somebody through Clacton.org, you can make an additional contribution if you want to.
Think of it as a tip. It is completely optional.
Post a local jobGive someone their first chance
Experience should open a door, not become an excuse for businesses to obtain free labour.
School & College Placements
Schools and colleges can tell local businesses when students need one or two-week placements and the kinds of experience they are looking for.
Business Experience
Employers can offer genuine opportunities to see a workplace, learn about a career, develop skills and build something useful for a first CV.
Paid Starter Work
If you need somebody doing productive work, offer paid hours. It might only be four hours or one day each week, but it is a real start.
Learn it. Prove it. Put it on your CV.
Find useful local training and build a record of qualifications and certificates that employers can see.
Free Training
Free courses from colleges, organisations, employers and other recognised providers.
Funded Training
Sponsored and funded places, including courses Clacton.org may fund or help local businesses sponsor.
Paid Local Courses
Useful commercial courses and qualifications from local providers, with clear costs before you register.
Let’s get more local people trained in First Aid
First Aid is useful at work, at home and throughout the community. We want to encourage local people, particularly young people starting their CV, to gain useful skills and recognised certificates.
We can also ask local employers and sponsors to fund training places and help people gain qualifications that could lead directly to employment.
A huge jobs database is useless if half the vacancies have disappeared or nobody ever responds.
Clacton.org will focus on quality rather than pretending that having thousands of listings is success.
Everybody gets a fair chance. One mistake does not define somebody. Repeated abuse of the service does.
Not thousands of adverts.
We would rather be able to say:
Community is all of us helping all of us.
Jobs and opportunities do not only benefit the person getting them. When local people learn, work and earn, local businesses and the whole community benefit too.
People
Earn money, develop skills, gain experience, build confidence, improve a CV and create a route towards better work.
Businesses
Find local people, fill difficult hours, discover future employees, develop skills and recruit without huge fees.
Our Community
More people working, learning and participating means stronger families, stronger businesses and more money circulating locally.
Give young people somewhere to go and something to build towards.
Young people with no work, no training and no obvious route forward are more likely to become disengaged. Sitting at home or hanging around all day can lead to poor choices, drugs, antisocial behaviour, low-level crime and potentially a criminal record that makes finding work even harder.
Paid work gives structure, responsibility, earned income, confidence, self-esteem and a reason to get up and do something useful.
A first paid shift might only be four hours. That can become another shift, a reference, more confidence, more work and eventually a career.
What could you offer? What could you become?
The full system is still being built, but we want to start connecting people now.
I am looking for opportunities
Tell us if you are unemployed, looking for your first job, looking for more hours, need experience, want training, are returning to work or simply need somebody to give you a chance.
I can offer an opportunity
You may be able to make a real difference without creating another full-time job. Tell us what your business or organisation could offer.
We need schools, colleges, sponsors and local people too.
This only works if the whole community gets involved. We are actively looking for people and organisations across Clacton who can help us create more opportunities for young adults, unemployed people and anybody trying to move forward.
School and college placements, volunteering, internships and work experience have different employment and minimum wage rules depending on the circumstances. Clacton.org will require participating employers to comply with applicable employment law and safeguarding requirements. Personal contact details for young people should not be publicly displayed.