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Testway’s a good company to work for because we’ve got good people working with us.

From us you’ll get:

Modern air conditioned offices – our headquarters in Andover in Hampshire is a modern, open plan, air conditioned office. We’ve also a smaller office in Romsey – both with free parking. And staff help themselves to free tea, coffee and soft drinks during their working day.

Nice people to work with – the surroundings and atmosphere are good. New people often say how friendly their new colleagues are.

Openness and fairness - we believe in being open - unless there’s a business reason not to be, such as delicate negotiations or something similar. There are regular team meetings and company briefings from the bosses, with question and answer sessions for you to have your say.

The chance to be the best you can - each year we spend at pretty big budget on staff training and development.

A fair chance no matter what you can, or can’t do, no matter where you come from - we’re positive about employing people with disabilities and we’re an ‘Investors in People’ employer, which means we’ve been checked over to make sure we look after our staff.

A chance to give back to the community - although we’re a charity ourselves, we give grants to the community groups where we work and staff can put in suggestions and have a say in where the money goes.

A commitment to get better at caring for our environment – we’re thinking more and more about the impact our work has on the environment outside our offices. We’re looking at ways to make our carbon footprint smaller.

From you, we want:

Passion - we want you to be passionate about doing your job well. Just enough won’t be good enough for you.

A belief in excellence – we want to do the best job we possibly can and that means always trying to a better job than we did last time.

A commitment to the customers - the right attitude is something that’s hard to teach. We want you to have the right attitude to customer care. We want to get things right first time, every time, but if we don’t, we try to not make the same mistake again.

A real human being, rather than a corporate robot - we employee ‘real people’ and want them their personality when they talk and write to customers and colleagues. The Testway voice is clear and approachable and most of all, human. Even when we have difficult things to tell to people, we’ll do it in a way that’s fair and lets people feel they can ask for help.

Someone who is happy to go home – most jobs, every now and then, need you to put in extra effort and extra time, but we don’t want you to lose sight of how to keep the work/life balance right. Overly stressed people don’t do their best work.