Graduate trainees are looking forward to guaranteed employment from Management Development Services (MDS).
The specialist training organisation for the fresh produce industry is scouting for new trainees because their graduates are in great demand with the food industry. In 2001, 100 per cent of trainees gained full-time employment, many now with senior in their sectors.
Julia Swanson, general manager at MDS, says the company is committed to ensuring their trainees make a successful transition from the course to a permanent post. She said: 'We are always delighted when trainees are offered such high-calibre jobs with a degree of responsibility and reward which might otherwise not be available to them.
'This kind of challenge gives them an opportunity to influence the business in a very direct way, and to develop their own career in a way that might otherwise have taken much longer.' One MDS graduate, Chris Jones, is working as raw materials manager for Express Dairies, where he has increased customer demand eight-fold. Jones said of the course: 'Joining a company training scheme is often a case of sink or swim, but with MDS I learned so much that I had the confidence to deal with a whole range of situations.'