TWO North-east online centres have launched a new campaign for jobseekers on Teesside.

Off the back of national “Get Online Week”, staff at the Hope Foundation in Middlesbrough, and Cyber Valley Digital Voice, which serves Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, are now helping even more people to get online and increase their employability.

This campaign, which is running until February 17th, involves classes to help people improve their internet skills and learn how to access such online government services as Jobseeker’s allowance online, pension information and NHS Choices.

One individual who has benefited from the online classes by finding employment is 54 year-old Remington Mills, from Middlesbrough, who had been out of work for eight months after being made redundant for the second time in fifteen years.

The former food services worker was encouraged to attend the Hope Foundation’s online classes by his local Job Centre Plus.

He got a temporary position within the Post Office and said: “I was pretty nervous visiting the Hope Foundation, but I knew it would be a real help in getting a new job. I moved on pretty quickly, which meant I could start looking at job search websites which was a real help.”

Andrew Donaghy, an employability tutor at the Hope Foundation, said: “Because industry has been the largest employer in the area there are so many people – especially those of a slightly older generation – who are finding themselves out of work and without the skills they need.”