All Careers articles – Page 3
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Features
Learn as you earn
The Brexit vote combined with next year’s apprenticeship levy may give some firms a headache over investment plans but the need for construction apprentices has never been greater
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Major companies back careers campaign to attract new talent
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV magazine and charity join forces to encourage school pupils to try out construction roles
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Features
Millennials: Goodbye 9-5
The world of work is changing. Forget being chained to a desk, a boss you only see through their office window
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Comment
Pledge to tackle skills shortage
We are only as good as the people we employ. But the industry is not managing to attract enough people to meet its demand
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Comment
Tackling discrimination in construction
Diversity in our industry needs to be a concrete target, not a nice thing to have
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Features
Parental leave: Man about the house
Many professionals in our male-dominated industry say they want to spend more time with their children. So why aren’t new dads taking up their recent right to shared parental leave? We talk to two fathers who took time out of the workplace
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Features
Gender pay gap: Levelling the field
New legislation will mean firms have to publish how much both male and female employees are paid. Will this be the end of the gender pay gap?
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Features
Andy Steele: ‘Was that me?’
It took Andy Steele just five years to transform Connaught into a £240m-turnover sensation. Can he pull it off again?
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Features
Apprentices: ‘The numbers don’t add up…’
Three times as many people are leaving the industry each year as are joining, so today’s skills crisis is set to get a lot worse
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WSP gets new global CEO
Current president and CEO Pierre Shoiry to step down once new CFO recruited
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Comment
Apprentices: A long game
Why early engagement with the workforce has to be a long-term goal for specialists
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Features
Simon Eyers: Beating the odds
National Apprenticeship Week: Being born deaf and mute hasn’t stopped Simon Eyers landing a job as an electrician at contractor FM Conway
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Apprentice numbers hit six-year high
National Apprenticeship Week: Number of new apprentices hits pre-recession levels
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Balfour bags Washington DC resi tower
Contractor also confirms reshuffle of London business
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Comment
Construction’s best kept secret?
 Construction businesses are creating great opportunities for young people – but the news isn’t always getting out
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CITB to cut staff by a third
Training body will reduce its staff count to under a thousand as part of new business plan
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Hinkley dealt blow as project director quits
EDF’s project director for £18bn nuclear power plant quits for new job in US
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Features
Does training need a reboot?
The industry is changing rapidly, with companies urgently trying to attract a new generation of talent and projects increasingly dependent on new technologies – it’s vital that the way we train changes too
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Top contractors to attend LGBT event
Balfour aong those to set up stall at careers fair for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees