Companies House
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BERR Department for Business
Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
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The main functions of Our Values
Companies House are to:
Doing it Right
Incorporate and dissolve
limited companies; I I listen to customers and colleagues
and exceed their expectations
Examine and store company
information delivered under the I I take pride in what I do
Companies Act and related legislation;
and Make this information available to I I take personal responsibility for my
the public actions
As part of our ongoing business
transformation, Companies House is Making a Difference
continuing to find ways of simplifying
and improving services – evolving into a I I seek to embrace and deliver
more streamlined, more accessible, change
more customer-centred organisation.
I I look for new and better ways of
Our mission doing things
Our mission is to be the foundation I I take every opportunity to develop
of company information exchange in myself and others
the UK: helping business, informing
the public, benefiting the economy.
Working Together
Our vision
I We respect each other
Our vision is to be a world-class
information provider – accessible, I We communicate openly and
easy to use and customer focused: honestly
exchanging information; creating
benefits. I We acknowledge and celebrate the
success and achievement of others
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The Programme
The Graduate Development
Programme is an eighteen month
rotational programme commencing in
September 2008.
The programme comprises of three
main components:
I Key placements
I Internal and external Training &
Development Opportunities
I Mentoring
The aim is that these elements will
integrate to provide our graduates with
a rounded and broad based set of
skills, experiences and attributes.
Placements
The key development opportunities
within the programme lie in the
placements. The first placement will be
organised in advance of the
programme commencing, the following
placements will be on a rotational
programme.
Over the eighteen month programme
each graduate will gain experience in
all 6 Directorates i.e. Central
Operations, Corporate Strategy,
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Finance, Human Resources, I.T. and
Customer Services. In each of these
areas the graduate will be provided
with an opportunity to undertake and
experience as diverse a workload as
possible with the views to giving an
excellent snapshot of the Directorates
work.
The programme for each Directorate
will be pre-planned and provide a
quality insight. When the programme is
complete the Graduate will be placed
in the Directorate that can make best
use of the skills they have acquired.
Strategy
Working at the corporate centre of the
business each graduate will have the
opportunity to become familiar with all
areas of the business. They may be
involved in policy formulation, strategic
projects or organisational development
and will gain an insight into partnership
working with colleagues in all areas of
the business
Front – line
These placements help each graduate
get involved in delivering services to the
public. They will gain an insight into
our relationships with our customers
and gain first – hand experience across
key service activities
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Support Service
In this area, each graduate will work
within internal functions such as
Human Resources, Corporate Strategy,
IT or Finance. They will be involved in
projects that will nurture and support
the organisation.
Internal Training & Development
Companies House benefits from a
management development framework
which enables managers at all levels to
access training and development
activities relevant to the organisation’s
and individuals’ needs.
As a minimum, our graduates will
benefit from attending all of our
internal training courses which are
designed for new or inexperienced
managers including our newly designed
introduction to team leadership
programme which is delivered by an
external strategic training partner.
In addition external training
opportunities will be made available,
including the opportunity to study
towards an MBA, after a
qualifying period, and also provided
with an opportunity to work on a
community based project.
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Support Salaries and Benefits
The programme will present even the The package on offer shows that
most competent graduate with great Companies House is very interested in
challenges. As they go through their the graduate market.
core placements there may be times Graduates will receive:-
when they need a sounding board to I A Permanent contract
guide them through the projects they
are undertaking. I A competitive salary of £18,053 pa
Throughout the development I 30 days annual leave together with
programme each graduate will receive statutory holidays
on-going support from an individual
mentor. In addition they will have a line I Flexi – time conditions
manager within each placement that
will provide them with day-to-day Entry requirements
guidance and supervision and they will
also be supported by the programme We encourage applications from all
co-ordinator. graduates who have achieved a mini-
mum of a 2:1 in any discipline.
The programme co-ordinator will
ensure that placements are
co-ordinated on the graduate’s behalf,
that they have access to training and
development activities and that their
performance is reviewed through a
Personnel Development Report for each
placement.
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