As the UK economy continues to recover and powers ever more ahead, one of the biggest employment areas is in engineering. With unemployment predicted to dip below 6.8 percent in 2014 from the current 4.6 percent – that’s 2.47 million people – the growing economy is adding many more engineering jobs.
This is good news for engineering recruitment, and also for engineering job-seekers, and it comes at a time when increasing numbers of people, including women, are choosing engineering as a career, due to its diverse nature and relatively high pay.
Engineers are found in all walks of business life; almost all companies that produce products have engineers working on them. There are many related departments in engineering, from initial designers to researchers and technicians right up to senior managerial level. Together they keep conveyor belts churning out items, whether its high-tech electronics or music recordings.
The scope for engineering employment in the UK is therefore vast, and finding the right engineering recruitment firm is a necessity in the search for top-level staff that will help to drive your company and its products forward. You need a recruitment firm that not only knows the market intimately but also their chosen candidates for positions as they arise.
It’s not just about candidates’ CVs but what they are like as a person: do they have the necessary interest in the company’s products? Are they willing to contribute to the overall development of the firm and its offerings? Are they resourceful in not being boxed-in by conventional thinking but can offer new and innovate ideas that create excitement and therefore concretely contribute to the company’s success?
Knowing the right candidates, and being able to offer them to firms in a time-saving manner is the essence of a good recruitment firm, none more so than one engaged in the dynamic engineering sector in the UK. It’s equally important to know exactly what the employer’s needs are in terms of good-quality staff as well as their overall expectations.
In this way, it’s possible to develop your company more dynamically and get an edge over competitors – rather than instead opting for apprentices who need to be trained and nurtured over perhaps several years; a lengthy process that can have hidden costs for firms in terms of lost growth opportunities as other engineering firms are steaming ahead and leaving you behind.
What’s therefore required in today’s fast-paced work world are properly qualified applicants for new positions, who also have a driving ambition and are ready to add their expertise and skills to the company right from the moment they walk in the door on their first day in the job.
Companies also don’t want to spend valuable time on interviewing many dozens or perhaps hundreds of people for one single engineering job, or wade through oceans of applications. It is much more effective to let a professional engineering recruitment firm handle the task – and fit the right people to the right jobs.