5th February 2012
Take a dip in our Talent Pool. It’s deep and it’s hot.
With some of the best schools and colleges in the country and more than 50,000 university students within a 30 mile radius, the Bedford area has access to enough talent to satisfy any business. The area has a higher than average proportion of the workforce educated to degree standard when compared to the rest of its region or indeed the country as whole.
The growth plans for the Bedford area involve a 60% increase in population over the next 25 years, thanks to new housing developments. This growth will ensure that whether you’re looking for salespeople or scientists, doctors or drivers, you’ll find your future workforce in Bedford.
With an estimated one language per thousand residents, the area has a truly multilingual workforce with more than one hundred languages, especially prominent are Italian, Punjabi, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese and both Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.
Local schools are very strong on modern languages and there are a number of specialist language colleges in the area.
