Recruitment Chorley

Chorley is a medium sized town in south Lancashire, with a population of around 41,000. Despite the rural location and relatively small number of residents, Chorley is a thriving town with a famous weekly market, wonderful natural surroundings, great transport connections and high quality of life. Because of these factors, on top of a comparatively low cost of living, there are robust employment opportunities in the area.

Chorley mirrors the country at large, and the North West in particular with the gradual shift in the last half of the twentieth century away from heavy industry and toward service -based employment. The predominant industries in this area historically were mining and cotton production, and there are still three mills in the area.

In recent years the defense and computer technology industries have built a strong presence in the area in the form of BAE Systems and CSC. There has also been an overall trend toward office-based service sector employment. Secretarial, admin, sales and customer service have also buoyed the local economy and employment in and around Chorley. In addition to the larger outside enterprises, there are many small, local firms of all descriptions doing good business in the Chorley area.