The New Year is well and truly underway, and with it comes endless opportunity. You may be considering a career change, but what do you need to land you that dream job? A well-written and confident cover letter can make all the difference to your application.
Christmas is here - but if you want to improve your hiring strategy, there’s no time for mulled wine and mince pies just yet. Many companies will wait until January to get started, and others will have to push recruitment forward due to spending budgets, so Christmas is a great time to get ahead.
This year, our Technical & Engineering Manager Tracy de Pass, continued her toy collection for the Sussex Snowdrop Trust, with huge success!
The holiday season is officially here, and to celebrate, FPR Group held a Christmas decoration competition across its 5 offices. The entries were all fantastic and the festive offices definitely sparked the Christmas spirit.
We’ve spoken to recruiters, students, managers and engineers themselves to raise awareness of the issue that we’re passionate about. There are several campaigns and organisations attempting to encourage greater diversity within the engineering industry. Today we conclude with an important question:
We’ve spoken to industry leaders, men and women at varying levels within engineering companies, and recent graduates starting out in their careers. We want to know what engineering workplaces have done to attract a diverse workforce.
Today our focus is on recruitment, and we’re interviewing Tracy de Pass, one of our own team, whose been in the engineering industry for 12 years.
Throughout our Women in Engineering Week 2018, FPR Group has been reaching out to different members of the industry, and today we’re talking to those just starting out in their engineering careers: students.
The full report of 30 engineering students from Universities of Southampton and Portsmouth.
FPR Group has seen the engineering skills shortage first hand. Our Women in Engineering Week 2018 aims to explore what has been done to tackle the low number of women in the industry, and how far we still need to go to balance the scales.
Companies can spend a huge amount evaluating employee engagement. A stay interview is a structured conversation that can help a manager understand what a happy employee is experiencing, and what motivates them. Interviews for a potential new employee often investigate the reasons that someone wants…
Motivation to increase workplace diversity has gained huge momentum over recent years. With legislation regarding gender, ethnicity and disability information starting to be introduced, it’s important to consider age discrimination as a factor for workforces of all sizes.
