COLLAPSE Travel companies move quickly to fill vacancies with experienced industry workers
THOMAS COOK
Travel businesses rush to snap up hundreds of redundant Cook staff
D
ozens of travel firms are recruiting former Tomas Cook staff following the travel
group’s collapse last week. Tomas Cook employed 9,000
staff in the UK, including 4,000 travel agents, who were leſt jobless when the business went into liquidation. One hundred travel businesses
and recruitment firms have came forward with vacancies on Travel Weekly’s dedicated jobs directory set up in the wake of the failure. Businesses include agency groups,
airlines, operators and hotels. Q Hays Travel has taken on 50 Cook
agents across its retail network and is in talks with the Department for Education about taking on as many
of Cook’s apprentices as possible. Q Barrhead Travel has interviewed more than 50 former Tomas Cook retail staff since last Monday and
made more than 20 job offers. Q Midcounties Co-operative Travel has recruited 20 ex-Tomas Cook retail staff in its travel branches and expects that number to grow over the
coming weeks. Q Althams Travel has taken on 10 former Cook retail staff despite not having any vacancies. Managing director Sandra McAllister said: “It seemed the right thing to do to help in any way we could. Qualified staff are hard to come by when you are looking to recruit, so we decided to offer up to a dozen staff employment.” Althams has more than
30 stores in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Q Tui held a recruitment event for
6 3 OCTOBER 2019 Qualified staff are
hard to come by so we made the decision to offer up to a dozen [Cook] staff employment
office-based roles at its Luton head office and said it would be atending recruitment fairs in Peterborough and
Manchester this week for Cook staff. Q Miniples Miles Morgan Travel and Tailormade Travel have taken on nine Cook staff between them.Tailormade Travel, which has 18 branches in South Wales, has recruited six Cook agents, while Miles Morgan Travel is “looking at a number of new retail shops”, having already recruited three former Cook agents and arranged
interviews with around 20 others. Q Te Travel Village Group managing director Phil Nutall said three former Tomas Cook staff had joined his agency business, Te
Travel Village, based in Blackpool. Q Virgin Holidays is interviewing a number of redundant Cook agents for sales advisor roles in its customer centre and planning interviews across
its retail estate. Q STA Travel is also interviewing a number of former Tomas Cook employees, while Trailfinders, which usually recruits entry-level staff and trains in-house, has brought forward its usual January recruitment drive to atract applications from former Cook staff for vacancies across its 35-branch retail network.
Q Meanwhile,
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have received “hundreds” of applications for flight deck, cabin crew, engineering and ground operations jobs following a roadshow held by the company in
Manchester for ex-Cook staff. Q Te Advantage Travel Partnership is in talks with a number of former Tomas Cook branch managers interested in seting up their own agencies. It is understood some ex- Cook managers hope to buy the leases of the agencies they were working in to set up their own independent agencies under the consortium’s Advantage Managed Services division.
Visit T ravel Weekly’s job
directory and resource centre, featuring CV and interview tips:
tinyurl.com/thomascookjobs
NEW JOB STARTERS
Steven Walker Althams Travel in Ilkley has employed Steven Walker as a sales consultant
after he lost his job as assistant manager in the town’s Thomas Cook branch. Walker had spent eight years at Cook and prior to that been a police officer for 30 years.
After visiting the Job Centre on Monday, Walker went into the Ilkey branch of Althams
Travel to ask about work. After emailing the manager and being given an interview, he was recruited and started in his new job at 9am last Thursday. Walker is well known in the town, with a number of residents on social media describing him as an asset. “I’ve joined a great team,” says Walker. “Everyone has been really supportive. Customers have been coming in to see me and people have been saying nice things on Facebook.”
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