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Shipster’s Apprenticeship Success: A Model for Tech Recruitment

sarahrudge — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:10:54 +0000

The UK’s tech industry faces a persistent skills shortage, with businesses struggling to find professionals equipped with the right expertise. Traditional hiring routes, such as graduate recruitment, often fall short due to skill mismatches and fierce competition. Apprenticeships are proving to be an effective solution, combining hands-on training with structured learning to build a highly skilled…

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Solving the UK’s Engineering Skills Crisis

sarahrudge — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:11:28 +0000

By Finn Neylon The European engineering sector faces a looming shortfall of one million engineers by 2030. This growing skills gap threatens our ability to meet the growing demands for UK infrastructure development, decarbonisation, and technological innovation. To overcome this, we need to attract, develop, and retain a diverse and skilled workforce. This requires a multifaceted approach…

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Sue Williams of Hexagon Consultants Shares the Importance of Strategic Expertise for Future Success

sarahrudge — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:05:19 +0000

I’ve been in the industry coming up to 30 years, though I don’t like to admit that too often,” begins Sue Williams, Managing Director, Hexagon Consultants. “I started out in the automotive sector when operations were logistics based rather than centred on the more modern supply chain. I began my career as a planner and then moved into various roles in supply chain and operations. I worked in the…

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Unlocking the Power of Diversity: Mott MacDonald’s Returners Program

sarahrudge — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:48:24 +0000

In today’s competitive business landscape, fostering diversity and inclusion is more than a feel-good initiative—it’s a strategic imperative. Mott MacDonald, a global engineering and development consultancy, gets this. They’re doubling down on their commitment to improving equality and diversity through Mott MacDonald’s Second Returners Program, designed explicitly for experienced professionals…

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Britain needs to grow its workforce if it plans to meet new homes target

Iain — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:48:44 +0000

England’s new homes target needs all hands on deck Modular homes can deliver factory-built houses with 50 percent fewer workers from a different pool of employees, and are 40 percent more productive than traditional builds. The government has plans to achieve 300,000 new homes a year target by 2025. However, without adequate skills, this goal might not be attainable.

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UK Government take on BITA members’ call to relax immigration rules for skilled building trades

Finelight Media — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:37:52 +0000

UK Government call to relax the immigration rules for building trades One of the UK’s leading non-profit business organisation, the British and Irish Trading Alliance (BITA), has welcomed the decision by the UK Government’s official independent advisory body on migration issues to address chronic labour shortages across the construction sector. The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has…

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Will the building control skills gap expose the housing crisis further, or can we build a bridge to a better future? Iain Thomson reports.

Iain — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:07:38 +0000

The Covid 19 pandemic has blown the UK housing gap wide open, with many people suffering from overcrowded, insecure and inadequate housing. According to the National Housing Federation, 8.4 million people in England alone are living in unaffordable or unsuitable accommodation, at the same time, the BBC’s Housing Briefing states 1.2 million fewer homes have been built in the UK than required by the…

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Practice makes perfect

Iain — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:31:04 +0000

All over the engineering sector, hiring managers are worried about the training and education that young graduates are receiving in UK universities. At least, that’s according to a study by the Institution of Engineering Technology, which found that about 75 per cent (three out of four) businesses do not think of up-and-coming graduates as having the necessary work-related or practical skills to…

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