West Limerick Resources - "Committed to the Community"

Rural Employment Service

The RES is free, voluntary and confidential.

The Rural Employment Service (R.E.S) is a dedicated employment support service operated by West Limerick Resources.  It works with individuals and groups who, for various reasons, are finding it difficult to access employment.  Since its foundation in August 2004,   the service has worked with over three hundred and fifty people who were seeking change in their lives through employment and helped them to identify and address the barriers and challenges that they have faced.

 The Rural Employment Service (R.E.S) provides assistance to individuals to enter or re-enter employment including:

• The long-term unemployed
• Under Skilled People
• Those experiencing social barriers to employment

This service is operated under Goal 3 of the Local and Community Development Programme which aims to increase the work readiness to people to enter the labour market.

For more information contact:

Dearbhla Conlon Ahern or David McPhillips - Rural Employment Service Advocates.

Dearbhla (Abbeyfeale): Phone:068 32444 or Email:  dconlon@wlr.ie

David (Newcastle West): Phone: 069 61316 or email: dmcphillips@wlr.ie