THE Millennium jobs Challenge aims to find at least 365 jobs until 2000.

The BEN, the employment Service, Bolton and Bury Chamber, Lifetime Careers and Bolton Metro have joined forces to reach this JOB A DAY target.

It's a crusade to get Bolton people working - and beat the dole.

Two dedicated phone lines are open to take your call.

If you are looking for work, just phone 0845 6060234.

If you are an employer who can offer a job, please ring 01204 516301.

Scores of people register with the Millennium Jobs Challenge every week, raring to go back to work.

The search is now on for more bosses who can employ these keen jobseekers.

The Millennium Jobs Challenge offers a free, tailor-made recruitment package for your company - ensuring your post will be on display throughout the Bolton area.

Plus, there could be free press coverage in this newspaper to help you find the perfect person for your position!

We need your vacancy and are ready to take your call now.

Last week, the Challenge filled no fewer than SEVEN vacancies. Aron dishes up great future WHEN Birmingham-born Aron swapped his home town for Horwich he changed more than just addresses - he found a new job too.

The 26-year-old now works as a restaurant supervisor at Quinceys in Westhoughton after giving up his job in Liverpool.

Commuting to Merseyside became too much at the end of last year, but now he has beaten the dole and joined the ranks at the well-known Chorley Road eatery.

Aron Sloly worked in hotels in Birmingham from the age of 17, and later joined the Brewers Fayre Group and TGI Friday's.

Last year Aron moved to Manchester to be with his girlfriend and worked as a duty manager at Fatty Arbuckles there.

When the chance to work as assistant manager of a cafe restaurant in Liverpool came along, Aron grabbed it.

Having since married the girl he moved up north for, Aron and his wife now live in Horwich and he is happy to work for an American-type outfit once again with young colleagues.

"I just slipped back into it," said Aron. "The way they run things is pretty self-explanatory.

"You're dealing with people every day - that's the best part."

Aron's ambition is to get into management once again - with the aim of running his own restaurant by the time he is 30.

"In the next four years I want to be in a position to take on a restaurant of my own," he said.

And does he like living in Horwich? "It's a beautiful place," said Aron, from Stocks Cottages. I've never seen so many sheep in my life!" Kenneth likes the pressure! KENNETH Caldecott's career took him to Libya, Canada and Australia before finishing up in Bolton.

The Technical Assistant is now in the high-pressure, abrasive cleaning business for Hawk 2000 Ltd, a company on Kestor Street.

Buildings, ships and tankers are all cleaned with the equipment which is repaired and maintained by Kenneth.

"I've lived in Bolton for 26 years but I've never worked here," he said.

But even his new job has recently taken him away from home, to Falmouth in Cornwall.

There the 50-year-old set up the equipment for the operators to clean hover speeds.

"We had a little jolly at night and back at the job first thing in the morning," recalled Ken, who was unemployed for three weeks before securing this position.

His last job was for a print firm in Oldham, which involved working in Australia and Toronto to update machinery.

Until 1991, Kenneth worked for an oil production company in Libya, first as engineer, later as senior supervisor. It was the Gulf War which put an end to this assignment. After a sabbatical year, Kenneth embarked on a range of courses, mostly in information technology. Lawrence likes abrasive work LAWRENCE Collier has found work as a builders' labourer after being unemployed for four years.

The 39-year-old is supported by Bolton and Bury Chamber on their Work Based Training for Adults programme.

Lawrence attends a course in Abrasive Wheel Training with Manchester Training, funded by the Chamber.

His employer, Sean Jennings Builders on Junction Road, Bolton, receive a wage subsidy of £50 for 20 weeks under the council's Gold Focus Programme. Michael gets a lift WHEN Michael Derby's fork lift truck licence lapsed he found it hard to find another job as a warehouse operative.

But with the help of Bolton Council's Employment and Training Team, based at the Quest Centre in Halliwell, he passed his Reach Truck Licence and renewed his Counterbalance Licence.

One week after obtaining both licences, Michael drew a line under 10 months of unemployment and secured a job with a health and diet company in Radcliffe as a warehouse/fork lift truck operator.

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