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Agile Group and School colloborate for Work Experience

Leading ICT firm Agile Group have today announced a collaboration with Hartlepool based School Catcote Academy to provide a 6 month work experience scheme to one of their students. The Teesside based company are in the middle of a recruitment drive and are delighted to offer this experience to 15 year old Mathew Popplewell.

During his 6 months with the company, Mathew will undertake a various number of roles and spend time working across the various departments within Agile Group to get a good understanding of how the company functions. This will range from installing a new network for a business, providing onsite and remote IT support, attending sales meetings with the Business Development team and helping out the marketing team with social media activity.

Of the opportunity, Mathew said “It’s been really fun. The staff have been very welcoming and they are a great and funny team. I’ve been shown various systems and processes and it has allowed me to gain more responsivity. This is my first experience working in a business and I am looking forward to a career in IT”.

Catcote Academy value themselves on taking pride in providing their students with exciting learning opportunities and establishing relationships with local businesses. The collaboration with Agile Group on this project sees a perfect fit to suit all parties involved.

Agile Group have a proud standing tradition of hiring employees locally and by working with Catcote Academy enhances this position further. It is anticipated the move could be the first in a line of experiences to be offered so that.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Agile Group .